Collaborative Research: Identity and Environmental Action: The U.S. Environmental Movement as a Context of Behavioral Change

合作研究：身份与环境行动：美国环境运动作为行为改变的背景

• 批准号: 9602016
• 负责人: Willett Kempton
• 金额: $ 20.15万
• 依托单位: University of Delaware
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-09-01 至 2002-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9602016&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Identity; Environmental; Action

This project consists of collaborative grants to cultural anthropologists at the Universities of Delaware and North Carolina. The researchers will study how collective cultural forms influence individual action by studying the environmental movement in the US. Environmentalism is a new social movement organized at local, national and international levels. Majorities in opinion polls identify themselves as `environmentalists`, suggesting a link between environmentalism and personal identity. Using ethnographic techniques of participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and personal narratives, the project will study three face-to-face environmental groups, one national environmental organization that communicates with members through mail and telephone, and a random sample of citizens not belonging to any group. The researchers will ask how an individual's identity as an `environmentalist` relates to their observed behavior and energy use. A national survey will be built from the ethnographic research to check for the hypothesized relations between identity and action. The results promise to advance theory in psychological anthropology, new social movements and identity formation as collective phenomenon. The results will be of practical value to federal agencies concerned with behavioral factors in environmental degradation, to environmental educators, and to environmental action groups.

该项目包括向特拉华州和北卡罗来纳州大学的文化人类学家提供合作赠款。 研究人员将通过研究美国的环境运动来研究集体文化形式如何影响个人行动。 环境保护主义是一个在地方、国家和国际层面上组织起来的新的社会运动。 民意调查中的大多数人都认为自己是“环保主义者”，这表明环保主义与个人认同之间存在联系。 利用参与观察、半结构化访谈和个人叙述的人种学技术，该项目将研究三个面对面的环境组织，一个通过邮件和电话与成员沟通的国家环境组织，以及一个不属于任何群体的随机公民样本。 研究人员将询问一个人作为“环保主义者”的身份如何与他们观察到的行为和能源使用有关。 一项全国性的调查将建立在民族志研究的基础上，以检查身份和行动之间的假设关系。 研究结果有望推动心理人类学、新社会运动和作为集体现象的身份形成的理论。 研究结果对关注环境退化行为因素的联邦机构、环境教育工作者和环境行动团体具有实用价值。