Anthropological Approaches to Middle Class Working Families Conference

中产阶级工薪家庭会议的人类学方法

• 批准号: 9813579
• 负责人: Mary Overbey
• 金额: $ 1.21万
• 依托单位: American Anthropological Assoc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-06-15 至 1999-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9813579&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Anthropological; Approaches; Middle; Class; Working

The United States has defined itself as a `middle class` society, in contrast to much of the world where the majority of the population can in no way be characterized as middle class. Yet while some anthropologists have studied middle class working families, little attention has been focused on this subject as a core research topic for the discipline. The contributions to our understanding of how these families confront the challenges of contemporary life that derive from the in-depth, intensive, long-term ethnographic data that anthropology provides have not been explicitly examined. This project involves a conference of twelve anthropological researchers organized and administered by the American Anthropological Association, the major professional association for anthropologists in the US. The conference will occur on May 31-June 2, with an agenda to determine anthropology's current and future contributions to the academic research topic of middle class working families; publication in AY 1999 of commentaries by anthropologists on research issues involving middle class working families in the Anthropology Newsletter, the American Anthropological Association's main vehicle for communication among members; and the publication and dissemination of a research agenda to anthropologists to encourage research on the broad topic of middle class working families. The conference is supported by NSF funds, the other activities are supported by a grant from the Sloan foundation. This project is important because by defining areas of potential contributions, the conference and publications will stimulate new research.

美国将自己定义为“中产阶级”社会，而世界上许多地方的大多数人口根本不能被称为中产阶级。 然而，尽管一些人类学家研究了中产阶级工薪家庭，但很少有人将这一主题作为该学科的核心研究主题。人类学提供的深入、密集、长期的民族志数据对我们理解这些家庭如何应对当代生活的挑战的贡献尚未得到明确的检验。 该项目涉及由美国人类学家主要专业协会美国人类学协会组织和管理的十二名人类学研究人员的会议。 会议将于5月31日至6月2日举行，议程确定人类学当前和未来对中产阶级工薪家庭学术研究课题的贡献； 1999年，在《人类学通讯》上发表了人类学家对涉及中产阶级工薪家庭的研究问题的评论，该通讯是美国人类学协会会员之间交流的主要工具；向人类学家出版和传播研究议程，以鼓励对中产阶级工薪家庭这一广泛主题进行研究。 本次会议得到了 NSF 资金的支持，其他活动则得到了斯隆基金会的资助。该项目很重要，因为通过定义潜在贡献领域，会议和出版物将刺激新的研究。