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

SBR-9506062该论文改进奖为学生研究加纳妇女发展和使用社交网络（特别是资助创业企业）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原始人种学数据，方法是对100名从事两种不同企业活动的不同家庭和社会经济背景的妇女进行调查，以及参与观察妇女协会和10名妇女的生活史发展。 人种学研究将辅之以档案数据收集和与发展项目管理人员的访谈。 该项目的潜在理论和实践贡献在于其重点是妇女在家庭之外的作用以及妇女在依赖社交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.