Dissertation Research: Social Construction of Gender Idenity in South Africa

论文研究：南非性别认同的社会建构

• 批准号: 9708311
• 负责人: Donald Donham
• 金额: $ 0.33万
• 依托单位: Emory University
• 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: 1997-08-15 至 1999-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9708311&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Social; Construction; Gender

This project, supported both by the Social, Behavioral and Economic Research and the International Divisions of NSF, involves the dissertation research of an anthropology student from Emory University. The student will investigate the relationships between indigenous Xhosa-speaking South African adolescents and their parents and other members of the adult generation. Focusing on households containing adolescent s aged 10-19, the student will interview how young peoples' and their parents' definitions of adolescence versus adulthood vary in light of changing religious, social and economic circumstances. The student will first survey about 100 households in two sites with different socio-economic characteristics in a large suburb of Cape Town, and go on to conduct structured interviews, individual case studies and intensive observation of adolescents in different social contexts. The focus will be on the cultural meanings of adolescence in relation to male and female intimate practices, contraceptive use and adolescent pregnancy. This research is important because it will advance our understanding of the cultural meanings behind behavior causing acquired immuno-deficiency disease and adolescent pregnancy. Improving our knowledge of the sources of adolescent behavior will be an important step towards designing programs to change that behavior and reduce the prevalence of disease and adolescent pregnancies.

该项目得到了美国国家科学基金会社会、行为和经济研究部以及国际部的支持，涉及埃默里大学一名人类学学生的论文研究。 学生将调查土著科萨语南非青少年和他们的父母和成年一代的其他成员之间的关系。 以10-19岁青少年的家庭为重点，学生将采访年轻人及其父母对青少年与成年的定义如何随着宗教、社会和经济环境的变化而变化。学生将首先在开普敦的一个大郊区的两个具有不同社会经济特征的地点调查大约100个家庭，然后进行结构化访谈，个案研究和对不同社会背景下青少年的深入观察。 重点将放在与男女性行为、避孕药具使用和少女怀孕有关的青春期的文化意义上。 这项研究很重要，因为它将促进我们对导致获得性免疫缺陷病和少女怀孕的行为背后的文化含义的理解。 提高我们对青少年行为来源的认识将是设计改变这种行为和减少疾病和青少年怀孕流行的方案的重要一步。