Family Resource Allocation in Urban and Rural Communities

城乡社区家庭资源配置

• 批准号: 0401473
• 负责人: Linda Burton
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-08-15 至 2007-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0401473&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Family; Resource; Allocation; Urban; Rural

Linda BurtonStephen MatthewsDebra SkinnerPennyslvania State UniversityUsing ethnography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology, the investigators will conduct a novel, in- depth, comparative study of resource allocation in low-income families residing in large urban, small town, and rural communities. Resource allocation is defined as the procurement and distribution of material, emotional, and informational resources within and across generations in families. To examine this issue, the PIs (Principal Investigators) will analyze secondary data from two comparably designed ethnographic studies, and supplement on-going data collection in one. The studies are the Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study and the Family Life Project. The Three-City Study Ethnography was conducted in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio from June 1999 to August 2003 and comprises a sample of 256 low-income African American, Hispanic, and non- Hispanic white families. The data include over 45,000 pages of fieldnotes and transcripts of participant interviews and observations, 3500 audiotapes, and key tables with life course and spatial resource use information. The Family Life Project, launched in October 2002 and continuing through October 2006, involves a sample of 72 low income African American and non-Hispanic white families. This ethnography is being conducted in Pennsylvania and North Carolina. The grant will support the collection of on-going ethnographic and GIS resource allocation data from families in the Family Life Project. The grant will also allow the investigators to add ten Hispanic families to this ethnography so that the sample is ethnically comparable to the Three-City Study. The specific aims of the proposed study are twofold: (1) to examine the relationship between intergenerational resource allocation, family roles, community resources, and social mobility in urban and rural settings and (2) to integrate ethnographic methods and data on families and communities with GIS technology to inform our understanding of intergenerational resource allocation in urban and rural communities. The project will advance our knowledge and understanding of family resource allocation. The project takes an interdisciplinary approach, including sociologist, anthropologists, geographers as research team members. Study findings will have a broad appeal to not only disciplines represented by the research team, but to scholars in demography, human development, and life course and family studies as well. More over, the integration of ethnographic and GIS methods and data represents significant innovation in the field that has the potential to lead to new insights and contextually-sensitive understandings of resource allocation among lower-income families.

琳达·伯顿斯蒂芬·马修斯黛布拉·斯金纳宾夕法尼亚州立大学利用民族志和地理信息系统（GIS）技术，研究人员将对居住在大城市、小城镇和农村社区的低收入家庭的资源分配进行新颖、深入的比较研究。资源配置是指家庭内部和代际间物质、情感和信息资源的获取和分配。为了研究这个问题，PI（首席研究员）将分析两项设计相似的人种学研究的二手数据，并补充其中一项正在进行的数据收集。 这些研究是福利、儿童和家庭：三城市研究和家庭生活项目。三城市民族志研究于 1999 年 6 月至 2003 年 8 月在波士顿、芝加哥和圣安东尼奥进行，样本包括 256 个低收入非裔美国人、西班牙裔和非西班牙裔白人家庭。这些数据包括超过 45,000 页的现场笔记以及参与者访谈和观察的记录、3500 盘录音带以及包含生命历程和空间资源使用信息的关键表格。家庭生活项目于 2002 年 10 月启动并持续到 2006 年 10 月，涉及 72 个低收入非裔美国人和非西班牙裔白人家庭样本。这项民族志研究正在宾夕法尼亚州和北卡罗来纳州进行。 该赠款将支持家庭生活项目中不断收集的家庭民族志和地理信息系统资源分配数据。 这笔赠款还将允许研究人员在该民族志中添加十个西班牙裔家庭，以便样本在种族上与三城市研究具有可比性。 本研究的具体目标有两个：（1）研究城乡环境中代际资源分配、家庭角色、社区资源和社会流动性之间的关系；（2）将民族志方法和家庭和社区数据与GIS技术相结合，以加深我们对城乡社区代际资源分配的理解。 该项目将增进我们对家庭资源分配的认识和理解。 该项目采用跨学科方法，包括社会学家、人类学家、地理学家作为研究团队成员。 研究结果不仅对研究团队所代表的学科具有广泛的吸引力，而且对人口学、人类发展、生命历程和家庭研究领域的学者也具有广泛的吸引力。 此外，人种学和地理信息系统方法和数据的整合代表了该领域的重大创新，有可能为低收入家庭的资源分配带来新的见解和情境敏感的理解。