The Relationship Between Networks and Voluntary groups: A Proposal for Replication of the General Social Survey Voluntary Organization and Network Modules

网络与志愿团体之间的关系：复制一般社会调查志愿组织和网络模块的提案

• 批准号: 0347699
• 负责人: Joseph McPherson
• 金额: $ 24.3万
• 依托单位: Duke 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: 2003-09-01 至 2005-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0347699&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Relationship; Between; Networks; Voluntary; groups

The project replicates in the 2004 General Social Survey (GSS) two modules -- the 1985 Social Network Module and the Voluntary Association Module (formerly a part of the core GSS items, but lasted asked of a full sample in 1987) as well as link them through a series of new items that supplement these modules. The primary purpose of the replication is to test theoretical ideals, including current questions about civic engagement in both associations and in networks. For example, how do people come to join voluntary groups? How do people become friends and associates? Past research completed in ten communities in Nebraska suggest that the competition of social groups for members and the social networks among individuals govern the rate of growth and decline, the position in social and geographical space, and the social composition of voluntary organization. Previous work has also revealed a powerful association between social network contacts with other individuals and membership in groups and associations. Questions in the two modules have never been asked together on the GSS, even though current theoretical understanding of network and group processes is fundamentally intertwined. These data will allow the PIs to test a key question from a general theory of association: How are the network connections between individuals and the affiliations of individuals to voluntary groups related? More specifically, what proportion of significant social relationships are formed as a result of initial contact in social associations, work groups, and the like, and, conversely, what proportion of connections with such groups and associations occur by virtue of prior connection with a significant other? This project will constitute the first test with national data of the hypotheses about networks and groups from the ecological theory of affiliation. In addition to answering theoretically important questions, the project will generate an important reassessment of civic engagement and community embeddedness almost 20 years after the last major study of these issues on a high quality national probability sample. The data set generated will provide a major resource for other scholars who study voluntary associations, civic engagement, social capital and/or social networks. Information gathered in the context of this study will provide a hypernetwork sample of voluntary associations, which will generate the first true national probability sample of these groups. This sampling frame will be useful for a follow-up study of the groups themselves, and of network ties formed within them.

该项目在2004年综合社会调查中复制了两个单元-1985年社会网络单元和志愿协会单元（以前是综合社会调查核心项目的一部分，但在1987年继续要求进行全面抽样），并通过一系列补充这些单元的新项目将它们联系起来。 复制的主要目的是测试理论的理想，包括目前的问题，公民参与协会和网络。 例如，人们如何加入志愿团体？ 人们如何成为朋友和同事？ 以往对内布拉斯加州10个社区的研究表明，社会群体对成员的竞争和个人之间的社交网络决定了志愿组织的增长和衰退速度、在社会和地理空间中的地位以及社会构成。 以前的工作也揭示了社交网络与其他个人的联系以及团体和协会成员之间的强大关联。 这两个模块中的问题从来没有一起问过GSS，即使目前的网络和群体过程的理论理解是根本交织在一起。 这些数据将使PI测试一个关键问题，从一般的关联理论：如何是个人之间的网络连接和个人的从属关系的志愿团体有关？ 更具体地说，有多大比例的重要社会关系是由于在社会协会、工作团体等中的初次接触而形成的，反过来说，有多大比例的与这些团体和协会的联系是由于先前与重要他人的联系而形成的？ 该项目将构成对生态联系理论中关于网络和群体的假设的第一次全国性数据检验。 除了回答理论上的重要问题外，该项目还将对公民参与和社区嵌入进行重要的重新评估，这是在对高质量国家概率样本进行这些问题的最后一次重大研究近20年后。 生成的数据集将为研究志愿协会、公民参与、社会资本和/或社交网络的其他学者提供主要资源。 在这项研究的背景下收集的信息将提供一个志愿协会的超网络样本，这将产生这些群体的第一个真正的国家概率样本。 这一抽样框架将有助于对这些群体本身及其内部形成的网络关系进行后续研究。