Summer Institute for Research Design in Cultural Anthropology

该项目涉及文化人类学研究设计的第三套三年暑期研究所。研究设计和数据与理论之间联系的专家将教授一组12-15名从博士中竞争性选择的研究生。在美国各地，为期三周。课程内容将涵盖广泛的问题，重点是理论与研究目标，概念，定义，变量，措施和假设的发展之间的联系;在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。重点将放在概念上（例如，抽样理论），研究设计，在定性和定量背景下介绍数据管理，以及假设检验策略。这个项目是重要的，因为它将提供一个介绍科学人类学的研究问题的研究生谁可能没有收到足够的接触这些问题在他们的部门。这次研讨会的结果应该是提高学生的能力，做重要的论文研究项目，并成为更熟练的社会科学家一般。

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.