Workshop on Interdisciplinary Standards for Systematic Qualitative Research; Arlington, VA 2005

系统定性研究跨学科标准研讨会；

• 批准号: 0533084
• 负责人: Michele Lamont
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Harvard University
• 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: 2005-06-01 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0533084&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Interdisciplinary; Standards; Systematic; Qualitative

SES- 0533084Michele LamontHarvard UniversityThis proposal describes plans for a two-day Workshop on Interdisciplinary Standards for Systematic Qualitative Research to be held in May 2005. The workshop builds on a 2003 NSF-sponsored workshop that examined the "scientific foundations of qualitative research." The 2003 workshop brought together a diverse group of 24 social science experts on methodology, who outlined general guidance for developing qualitative research projects and recommendations for strengthening qualitative research. Similarly, this workshop will convene a multi-disciplinary group of approximately 25 anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists, and scholars in law and related disciplines for the broader purpose of (1) articulating the standards used in Cultural Anthropology, Political Science, Sociology, and Law and Social Science for maintaining rigor in qualitative methods across the range of methodological techniques (e.g., ethnography, historical and comparative analysis, textual analysis, focus groups, archival and oral history, observational studies, interpretation of images and cultural materials, and unstructured interviews); (2) identifying common criteria the different disciplines can share for designing and evaluating research proposals and fostering multidisciplinary collaborations; and (3) developing a research agenda for strengthening the tools, training, data, research design, and infrastructure for research using qualitative methods. This workshop represents a first step in addressing the lack of shared standards for qualitative research that cross disciplinary boundaries and will help to facilitate the sharing of research and contribute to a greater appreciation and understanding of research conducted by social scientists with different methodological standards of excellence.Broader ImpactsDuring 2005, a workshop report will be assembled, circulated for comments, and disseminated at the 2006 annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, American Political Science Association, Law and Society Association, and American Anthropological Association. This workshop is envisioned as the beginning of a wider initiative involving other social science disciplines and interdisciplinary programs beyond the four identified above. Virtually all social science and related disciplines would benefit from the development of shared standards for rigor in qualitative research in such areas as ethnography, historical and comparative analysis, textual analysis, interpretation of images and cultural materials and unstructured interviews. Given the growing importance, both within and outside of the National Science Foundation, of interdisciplinary research, developing if not a common language and criteria, at least a shared understanding of what disciplinary criteria are with respect to conducting and evaluating qualitative research, will enhance the rigor, quality and utility of interdisciplinary inquiry. Establishing such standards could be useful to individual researchers or multidisciplinary teams of social scientists working to integrate research across disciplinary boundaries.

SES-0533084 Michele Lamont哈佛大学本提案描述了将于2005年5月举行的为期两天的系统定性研究跨学科标准研讨会的计划。该研讨会建立在2003年国家科学基金会主办的研讨会上，该研讨会审查了“定性研究的科学基础”。“2003年的讲习班汇集了24名社会科学方法专家，他们概述了制定定性研究项目的一般指导方针和加强定性研究的建议。同样，本次研讨会将召集一个由大约25名人类学家、政治学家、社会学家和法律及相关学科学者组成的多学科小组，其更广泛的目的是：（1）阐明文化人类学、政治学、社会学以及法律和社会科学中使用的标准，以在各种方法技术中保持定性方法的严谨性（例如，民族志、历史和比较分析、文本分析、焦点小组、档案和口述历史、观察研究、图像和文化材料的解释以及非结构化访谈）;（2）确定不同学科可以共享的共同标准，以设计和评估研究提案，并促进多学科合作;以及（3）制定研究议程，以加强使用定性方法进行研究的工具、培训、数据、研究设计和基础设施。这次研讨会是解决跨学科定性研究缺乏共同标准问题的第一步，将有助于促进研究的交流，并有助于更好地欣赏和理解采用不同方法标准的社会科学家所进行的研究。并在美国社会学协会、美国政治学协会、法律与社会协会和美国人类学协会2006年年会上散发。本次研讨会被设想为一个更广泛的倡议，涉及其他社会科学学科和跨学科计划超越上述四个确定的开始。几乎所有社会科学和相关学科都将受益于在人种学、历史和比较分析、文本分析、图像和文化材料的解释以及非结构化访谈等领域制定共同的定性研究严格标准。鉴于跨学科研究在国家科学基金会内外的重要性日益增加，即使没有共同的语言和标准，至少也要对进行和评估定性研究的学科标准有共同的理解，这将提高跨学科研究的严谨性，质量和实用性。建立这样的标准可能有助于个人研究人员或多学科社会科学家团队的工作，以整合跨学科的研究。