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

近年来，随着公共服务的变化，宗教社区发展组织越来越多地提供职业培训、低收入住房、小企业贷款等社会服务。虽然很少被研究，但这些组织采取合作集体行动或社会运动的形式。该项目借鉴了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。在这样做的过程中，它评估了有关这些组织中官僚结构随着年龄增长和规模扩大而增长的假设，以及组织在其“行动框架”中日益增长的相似性。在三个以信仰为基础的社区发展组织进行的实地工作，包括与组织领导人面谈、审查组织文件和观察会议和活动，为评估理论和假设提供了数据。研究结果有助于理解一场日益重要的社会运动，而这一运动在很大程度上被文献所忽视。

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.