Organizational Demography of Youth Service Providers

青年服务提供者的组织人口统计

• 批准号: 0616738
• 负责人: Joseph Galaskiewicz
• 金额: $ 6.65万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-01 至 2008-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0616738&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Organizational; Demography; Youth; Service; Providers

SES- 0616738Joseph GalaskiewiczUniversity of ArizonaUnderstanding social institutions that reduce or reproduce inequality in society is central to sociological inquiry. Research has focused on educational opportunities for the young and recently on after-school activities. The investigator will study the services or activities that are available to families on the weekend and how this affects what children do on Saturdays during the school year. The PI argues that the use of different types of providers and the types of activities that children engage in are also a function of the supply of different providers in the immediate geographical area of the family and families' abilities (their financial and social capital) to take advantage of what is available. In other words, the focus shifts from the family to the ecology of providers in an urban society and how families are more or less able to access that larger world of opportunities. In 2003-04 the investigator collected data on what children and families did on Saturday in a study of 1,036 families in the Phoenix metropolitan area. This project will gather archival data on the population of nonprofit organizations, businesses, and governmental agencies, which provided services and activities for children during that time and to map their locations in the Phoenix metropolitan area using GIS. This will enable the investigator to determine 1) if geographical propinquity and ecological competition among providers affected families' use of and satisfaction with for-profits, nonprofits, churches, and government agencies in the market for youth services, and 2) if the presence of different kinds of competitors affects the strategy, performance, relocation, and survival rates of providers identified in our 2003-04 survey and will monitor over the next five years. The work has broader significance, because children's access to different types of activities is important for their educational, emotional, and social development. It is widely known that not all children have equal access to high quality programs, activities, and opportunities, yet democratic societies believe in equal opportunity for all and especially children. By focusing on the supply of providers as well as the consumers of these services, we hope to offer a more complete understanding not only of family behaviors but of nonprofit, for-profit, and government behaviors. With this knowledge we will have a better understanding of how to motivate providers to locate/stay in under-served areas and to empower families to advocate for these services and/or to provide these services themselves.

joseph galaskiewicz亚利桑那大学了解减少或再现社会不平等的社会制度是社会学研究的核心。研究集中在年轻人的教育机会上，最近又集中在课外活动上。调查人员将研究家庭在周末提供的服务或活动，以及这如何影响孩子在学年期间周六的活动。PI认为，使用不同类型的提供者和儿童参与的活动类型也取决于家庭直接地理区域内不同提供者的供应情况和家庭利用现有资源的能力（其财务和社会资本）。换句话说，重点从家庭转移到城市社会的提供者生态，以及家庭如何或多或少能够获得更大的机会。2003年至2004年，研究人员对凤凰城市区的1036个家庭进行了调查，收集了孩子和家庭周六活动的数据。该项目将收集在此期间为儿童提供服务和活动的非营利组织、企业和政府机构的人口档案数据，并使用GIS绘制其在凤凰城大都市区的位置。这将使研究者能够确定：1)提供者之间的地理邻近性和生态竞争是否影响家庭对营利性、非营利性、教会和政府机构在青少年服务市场中的使用和满意度；2)不同类型竞争者的存在是否影响我们在2003-04年调查中确定的提供者的策略、绩效、搬迁和存活率，并将在未来五年内进行监测。这项工作具有更广泛的意义，因为儿童参与不同类型的活动对他们的教育、情感和社会发展都很重要。众所周知，并不是所有的孩子都有平等的机会参加高质量的项目、活动和机会，然而民主社会相信所有人的机会都是平等的，尤其是儿童。通过关注这些服务的提供者和消费者的供给，我们希望不仅对家庭行为，而且对非营利组织、营利组织和政府行为提供更全面的理解。有了这些知识，我们将更好地了解如何激励提供者定位/留在服务不足的地区，并授权家庭倡导这些服务和/或自己提供这些服务。