Summer Institute for Research Design in Cultural Anthropology

本项目涉及文化人类学研究设计暑期学院的第三套，每套三年。研究设计和数据与理论之间的联系方面的专家将在为期3周的时间里教授从美国各地的博士项目中竞争性挑选出来的12-15名研究生。课程内容将涵盖广泛的问题，侧重于理论与研究目标、概念、定义、变量、衡量标准和假设的发展之间的联系；人种学背景下定量和定性方法之间的关系；系统的数据收集程序；概率和非概率抽样；统计分布和基本数据分析。重点将放在概念(例如，抽样理论)、研究设计、定性和定量背景下的数据管理介绍，以及假设检验的策略。这个项目很重要，因为它将为研究生提供科学人类学研究问题的介绍，这些学生可能在他们的系里对这些问题没有得到足够的接触。这个工作坊的结果应该是提高学生做重要论文研究项目的能力，并总体上成为更熟练的社会科学家。

This project involves the third set of three years of a summer institute in research design in cultural anthropology. Experts in research design and in the link between data and theory will teach a set of 12-15 graduate students chosen competitively from Ph.D. programs throughout the US during a period of 3 weeks. Course content will cover a broad spectrum of issues focusing on the link between theory and the development of research objectives, concepts, definitions, variables, measures and hypotheses; the relationship between quantitative and qualitative approaches in the ethnographic context; systematic data collection procedures; probability and non-probability sampling; statistical distributions and elementary data analysis. The emphasis will be on concepts (e.g., sampling theory), research design, an introduction to data management in both a qualitative and quantitative context, and strategies of hypothesis testing. This project is important because it will provide an introduction to research issues in scientific anthropology for graduate students who may not be receiving an adequate exposure to these issues in their departments. The results of this workshop should be to increase the competence of students to do significant dissertation research projects and to become more proficient social scientists in general.