Urban Population Diversity and Attitudes Toward Animals

城市人口多样性和对动物的态度

• 批准号: 9605043
• 负责人: Jennifer Wolch
• 金额: $ 5.92万
• 依托单位: University of Southern California
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-08-01 至 2000-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9605043&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Urban; Population; Diversity; Attitudes; Toward

University of Southern California The research will investigate the influence of urban population diversity-cultural, economic, socio-demographic and ethico-political-on the formation of attitudes toward animals. Attitudes toward animals are critical to understand, because they underpin the social construction of animals and animality by human society. The initial goals are to refine a conceptual framework for understanding urban population diversity and attitudes toward animals, based on current theoretic approaches and a meta analysis of past studies. In addition, the spectrum of attitudes and behaviors toward various types of animals and the dimension of urban diversity which may be related to attitudes toward animals will be identified. Expert interviews and focus groups will be carried out to discover information on attitudes, behaviors and conflict. This information then will be utilized to design a survey instrument which allows a description of attitudinal variation with respect to animals. In addition the research will develop a conceptual typology of local animal management institutions and urban animal social movement organizations to inform the design of appropriate methodologies for larger scale data collection efforts and criteria for case study selection.

南加州大学 这项研究将调查城市人口的多样性，文化，经济，社会人口和道德政治的影响，对动物的态度的形成。 对动物的态度是理解的关键，因为它们是人类社会对动物和动物性的社会建构的基础。 最初的目标是完善一个概念框架，了解城市人口的多样性和对动物的态度，根据目前的理论方法和过去的研究Meta分析。 此外，对各种类型的动物的态度和行为的频谱和城市多样性的维度，这可能与对动物的态度将被确定。 将进行专家访谈和焦点小组，以发现关于态度、行为和冲突的信息。 然后，这些信息将被用来设计一个调查工具，允许描述的态度变化相对于动物。 此外，该研究还将开发当地动物管理机构和城市动物社会运动组织的概念类型学，为更大规模的数据收集工作和案例研究选择标准的适当方法的设计提供信息。