Doctoral Dissertation Reseach in Sociology: Deciphering the Professional: The Culture of Transnationalism in Comparison

社会学博士论文研究：解读专业：跨国主义文化的比较

• 批准号: 0526037
• 负责人: F. Muge Gocek
• 金额: $ 0.75万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-01 至 2006-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0526037&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Reseach; Sociology; Deciphering

Doctoral Dissertation Research in SociologyDeciphering the Professional: The Culture of Transnationalism in ComparisonPrincipal Investigator: Fatma Muge GocekCo-Principal Investigator: T. Deniz ErkmenAbstract:Using concepts and theoretical perspectives from sociology and political science, this Sociology Dissertation Improvement Grant explores how transnational practices affect the way people imagine themselves in novel ways. It seeks to understand how the conditions of interconnectedness, flexibility, and mobility engendered by globalization affect people's worldviews and their sense of belonging to a community. For this purpose, it poses the main research questions as follows: What kind of a culture do transnational practices help construct? Can we talk about shared, trans-border cultural repertoires emerging out of transnational practices? If so, how do people from different national backgrounds participate in these cultures and how does it affect their self-identification? What does it mean for the participants of these processes to be "transnational," "global," or "cosmopolitan"? And, through what kind of behavioral and self-interpretive acts is a transnational community constructed? The research takes place in two sites - Istanbul, Turkey and New York City, U.S - and focuses specifically on professionals who work in multinational corporations. Turkey and the U.S are chosen due to their position within the world economic order: one is the epicenter of the global market, and the other is a developing country, clearly integrated into the global market, yet without the power to dominate and/or shape the processes within it. The case selection aims at going beyond the single-site studies of transnationalism and exploring the variation within the transnational experience by bringing in perspectives from a developing country. Semi-structured in-depth interviews, life histories, and participant observation will be used to gather data on daily practices and self-identification processes of the professionals. This project contributes to the scholarly discussion by advancing knowledge on transnationalism, transnational professionals, and national identity. It aims to inform the theoretical discussions with empirical data. Moreover, it provides valuable information on the newly emerging transnational professionals and it adds to the recent discussions on citizenship by investigating global citizenship and cosmopolitanism in practice. It also provides an important comparison between developed and developing countries, an underresearched area in the literature on transnationalism. It is of public concern to know how national attachments, belonging, and identity are being transformed in the contemporary world since how people perceive themselves affects how they act politically and this has important consequences for the stability, persistence, and effectiveness of democratic systems. Given the declining levels of political and civic participation in most Western democracies, there is worry that the public is not taking their citizenship responsibilities seriously, leading to deterioration in politics and public life. In this context, it is crucial to explore how the interconnectedness, mobility, and flexibility associated with transnationalism affect how people identify with their communities and feel responsible towards them. The result of the research will be also of interest to the business communities as it provides information on the transnational business class and how people in this class perceive and relate to each other.

社会学博士论文研究解读专业：比较中的跨国主义文化首席研究员：法特玛·穆格·戈切克共同首席研究员：T。Deniz Erkmen摘要：使用社会学和政治学的概念和理论观点，这个社会学论文改进补助金探讨了跨国实践如何影响人们以新颖的方式想象自己。 它试图了解全球化所产生的相互联系、灵活性和流动性的条件如何影响人们的世界观及其对社区的归属感。 为此，它提出的主要研究问题如下：什么样的文化做跨国公司的做法帮助建设？ 我们能否谈谈从跨国实践中产生的共享的、跨国界的文化剧目？ 如果是这样，来自不同国家背景的人如何参与这些文化，以及它如何影响他们的自我认同？ 对于这些过程的参与者来说，“跨国”、“全球”或“世界性”意味着什么？ 跨国共同体是通过什么样的行为和自我解释行为来建构的？ 这项研究在两个地点进行--土耳其的伊斯坦布尔和美国的纽约市--特别关注在跨国公司工作的专业人士。 土耳其和美国之所以被选中，是因为它们在世界经济秩序中的地位：一个是全球市场的中心，另一个是发展中国家，显然已融入全球市场，然而，没有权力主导和/或塑造其中的过程。案例选择的目的是超越单一的-跨国主义的实地研究，并通过引入发展中国家的观点来探索跨国经验的变化。 半结构化的深入访谈，生活史，和参与者的观察将被用来收集数据的日常做法和自我认同的过程中的专业人士。 该项目通过推进对跨国主义，跨国专业人士和国家认同的知识，有助于学术讨论。 它旨在为理论讨论提供经验数据。 此外，它提供了宝贵的信息，对新兴的跨国专业人士，它增加了最近的讨论，通过调查全球公民身份和世界主义的实践。 它还提供了发达国家和发展中国家之间的重要比较，这是跨国主义文献中研究不足的领域。 公众关心的是了解民族依恋、归属感和身份在当代世界中如何转变，因为人们如何看待自己会影响他们的政治行为，这对民主制度的稳定、持久和有效性有重要影响。 鉴于大多数西方民主国家的政治和公民参与水平下降，人们担心公众没有认真对待他们的公民责任，导致政治和公共生活恶化。 在这种情况下，至关重要的是要探讨与跨国主义相关的相互联系、流动性和灵活性如何影响人们对社区的认同和对社区的责任感。 研究的结果也将是感兴趣的商业社区，因为它提供了关于跨国企业阶级的信息，以及在这个阶级的人如何看待和相互联系。