Doctoral Dissertation Research: Social Structure and Personality in Transitional Urban China

博士论文研究：转型时期中国城市的社会结构与人格

• 批准号: 0326830
• 负责人: Melvin Kohn
• 金额: $ 0.75万
• 依托单位: Johns Hopkins University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-08-01 至 2005-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0326830&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Social; Structure

The proposed research will examine the relationship between social structure and individual personality through the linkage of occupational self-direction in urban China in transition. The interplay of market institution and institutional legacy of the socialist planned economy indicates a transitional process different from the path of radical social change in the former Soviet and East European societies. The relationship between social structure and personality in transitional China may be quite different from that in fully capitalist societies, in socialist societies, and even in the transitional societies of the former Soviet Union and East Europe. The research will be conducted in Shanghai, the largest industrial city in China. It will employ a three-stage random sampling strategy to collect primary survey data. A sample of 500 registered residents of the city proper who are in the labor force at the time of survey will be yielded. A pretest will be conducted before the actual survey to warrant linguistically and culturally valid questions to be included in the interview schedule. The actual survey will be conducted in the form of face-to-face interviews. Using rigorous confirmatory factor analysis and structural-equation modeling, the proposed research will be the first study of the relationship between social structure and individual personality in China. The broader impact of this research lies in its potential to bridge the gap in research on China between the study of social structure by sociologists and the study of personality by psychologists. It will provide important information for social policy, helping to rectify a paucity of knowledge about the psychological consequences of ongoing transition in urban China.

本研究将通过职业自我导向的联动，考察转型期城市中国的社会结构与个体人格之间的关系。社会主义计划经济的市场制度和制度遗产的相互作用，标志着一个不同于前苏联和东欧社会激进社会变革道路的过渡过程。转型时期的中国的社会结构与人格的关系，可能与完全资本主义社会、社会主义社会，甚至前苏联、东欧的转型社会的社会结构和人格的关系有很大的不同。这项研究将在中国最大的工业城市上海进行。它将采用三阶段随机抽样策略收集初步调查数据。将产生500名调查时在劳动力的市区户籍居民的样本。在实际调查之前，将进行一次前测，以保证面试日程中包含语言和文化上的有效问题。实际调查将以面对面访谈的形式进行。本研究采用严格的验证性因素分析和结构方程模型，首次对中国的社会结构与个性之间的关系进行了研究。这项研究更广泛的影响在于，它有可能弥合社会学家对社会结构的研究和心理学家对人格的研究之间对中国的研究的差距。它将为社会政策提供重要信息，帮助纠正对中国正在进行的城市转型的心理后果的缺乏了解。