Doctoral Dissertation Research: Faith-Based Community Development as Social Movement Phenomena

博士论文研究：基于信仰的社区发展作为社会运动现象

• 批准号: 0117143
• 负责人: Kevin Leicht
• 金额: $ 0.63万
• 依托单位: University of Iowa
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-09-15 至 2003-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0117143&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Faith; Based

In response to changes in public services in recent years, faith-based community development organizations have increasingly provided social services such as job training, low-income housing, and small business loans. Although rarely studied, these organizations take the form of cooperative collective action or social movements. This projects draws from organizational and collective action theories to understand the emergence and outcomes of faith-based community development. In so doing, it evaluates hypotheses concerning the growth of bureaucratic structures in these organizations as they grow older and larger, and the growing similarity of organizations in their "action frames." Field work in three faith-based community development organizations, including interviews with organizational leaders, examination of organizational documents, and observations of meetings and activities, provides the data to evaluate the theories and hypotheses. The results help understand an increasingly important social movement that the literature has largely ignored.

为了应对近年来公共服务的变化，基于信仰的社区发展组织越来越多地提供社会服务，如职业培训、低收入住房和小企业贷款。 虽然很少研究，但这些组织采取合作集体行动或社会运动的形式。 该项目借鉴组织和集体行动理论，以了解基于信仰的社区发展的出现和结果。 在这样做的时候，它评估的假设有关的官僚结构的增长，在这些组织，因为他们成长的年龄和规模，越来越多的相似性的组织在他们的“行动框架。“在三个基于信仰的社区发展组织的实地工作，包括与组织领导人的访谈，组织文件的检查，以及会议和活动的观察，提供了评估理论和假设的数据。 这些结果有助于理解一个日益重要的社会运动，而文献在很大程度上忽略了这一点。