Doctoral Dissertation Research: Social Networks and Women's Development Institution in Rural Ghana

自20世纪80年代初以来，该论文改进奖为学生研究加纳妇女发展和使用社会网络（特别是为创业企业融资）提供现场设备，旅行和语言培训资金。实地工作（1995年11月至1996年10月）将包括在加纳中部地区的两个村庄收集主要人种学数据，方法是对100名不同家庭和社会经济背景、参与两种不同企业活动的妇女进行调查，以及对10名妇女的妇女协会和生活史发展进行参与观察。民族志研究将以档案资料收集和与发展项目行政人员的面谈作为补充。该项目的潜在理论和实际贡献在于它注重妇女在家庭以外的作用和妇女在依靠社会网络的发展活动中的作用。

SBR-9506062 This dissertation-improvement award provides funds for field equipment, travel, and language training for the Student's research into Ghanaian women's development and use of social networks (particularly for financing entrepreneurial ventures) since the early 1980s. Fieldwork (November 1995 through October 1996) will involve primary ethnographic data collection in two villages in Ghana's Central Region, via a survey of 100 women of varying family and socio-economic backgrounds, involved in two different entrepreneurial activities, as well as participant observation in women's associations and life-history development for ten women. The ethnographic research will be complemented by archival data gathering and interviews with development-project administrators. The project's potential theoretical and practical contributions lie in its focus on the role of women outside the household and the role of women in development activities that rely on social networks.