Dissertation Research: Social Networks and Adaptive Strategies of Inupiaq Households

这是一个论文研究建议做研究在阿拉斯加西北部的因纽特人的社会组织，通过研究个人，家庭和社区如何适应快速的环境，社会和经济变化。 利用民族志实地调查方法，定性和定量，研究集中在家庭组织的因纽特人适应当代生活在阿拉斯加农村的动态的关键因素之一。 此外，该项目将利用NSF资助的“北方社会转型”项目的数据，该项目在1994年俄罗斯楚科奇发生的一次悲惨的船只事故中，其PI死亡后一直处于储存状态。 研究数据的状态一直处于不确定状态，直到最近PI的遗孀将研究记录交给阿拉斯加大学安克雷奇分校（UAA）。 今年，2003年，UAA开发了使用这些数据的协议，开放给研究人员使用。

This is a Dissertation Research proposal to do research on Inupiaq social organization in Northwest Alaska by examining how individuals, families and communities adapt with rapid environmental, social, and economic change. Utilizing ethnographic fieldwork methods, both qualitative and quantitative, the research concentrates on family organization as one of the key elements of the dynamics of Inupiat adaptation to contemporary life in rural Alaska. In addition, this project will utilize the data from the NSF funded "Social Transitions of the North" project, that has languished in storage following the death of its PIs in a tragic boat accident in Chukotka, Russia in 1994. The status of the research data has been in limbo until recently when the PIs' widows gave the research records to the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA). This year, 2003, UAA developed protocols for the use of the STN data, opening it up for use by researchers.