Doctoral Dissertation Research: Multiplying Identities: Consolidation and Fragmentation in San Francisco, 1950-1993

小行星9400895 这是一个奖项下的赠款为改善博士论文研究计划。 这是一个组织变革的研究 和差异化。 详细信息将 收集1950年至1993年期间在弗朗西斯科同性恋社区出现的每一个已知组织，研究的组织总数预计将接近2000个。 这些组织在这一时期表达其身份的方式的变化将进行定性研究。 此外，还将对来自竞争性组织理论的预测进行定量测试，特别是 人 关于 随着时间的推移，组织的同质化与多样化。 这个项目将有助于社会学中的几个不同领域。 通过对组织身份形成的关注，这项研究将启发文化社会学和社会运动研究中的流行工作，这些领域涉及低地位或异常群体努力获得认可和权力的过程。 它还将谈到组织社会学中的重要问题，因为随着时间的推移，组织的多样性越来越大， 现行 预期 的 趋势 组织同质化的趋势应该占主导地位。 除了通过研究取得的科学成果外，该奖项还将在物质上帮助一位非常有前途的学生完成博士研究。论文 因此，它有助于国家未来的科学人才和下一代社会科学家的全面培训。 ***

9400895 Swidler This is an award under the Grants for Improving Doctoral Dissertation Research program. It is a study of organizational change and differentiation. Detailed information will be collected on every known organization that has arisen in the gay and lesbian community of San Francisco between 1950 and 1993, with the total number of organizations studied expected to approach 2000. The changing ways in which these organizations have expressed their identities over this period will be studied qualitatively. In addition, quantitative tests will be carried out on predictions drawn from competing theories of organization, particularly ones concerning trends toward organizational homogenization versus diversification over time. This project will contribute to several different fields within sociology. Through its focus on organizational identity formation, this research will enlighten prevailing work within cultural sociology and the study of social movements, fields which deal with the processes by which low status or deviant groups struggle to gain acceptance and power. It will also speak to important issues in organizational sociology, since the increasing diversity of organizations over time appears to contradict prevailing expectations that trends toward organizational homogenization should dominate. In addition to the scientific gains to be achieved by the research, this award will materially assist a highly promising student in completing research for the Ph. D. dissertation. Thus it contributes to the future scientific manpower of the nation and the thorough training of the next generation of social scientists. ***