Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Figuring the Moroccan Child: Socialization, Normativity, and Social Change in Rur-urban Casablanca

博士论文改进补助金：描绘摩洛哥儿童：卡萨布兰卡农村地区的社会化、规范性和社会变革

• 批准号: 0720325
• 负责人: Tanya Luhrmann
• 金额: $ 1.49万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-08-15 至 2009-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0720325&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Figuring

Graduate student Christine Nutter, supervised by Dr. Tanya M. Lhurmann, will undertake research on the integration of new western psychiatric and new Islamic ideas about both normative and abnormal childhood into already existing childrearing practices in Casablanca, Morocco. Despite a significant global increase in the practices that constitute child psychiatry, there is little social science research evaluating the local-level consequences of this trend. The implications of the adoption of these practices in non-Western contexts include a potential restructuring of the way that societies think about the child and the self, as well as how children in distress are treated. At the same time, in North Africa and the Middle East, emerging Islamic revival movements offer a competing vision of childhood and of illness that emphasizes adherence to Islamic beliefs and practices and a negotiation of modern life within these boundaries. The researcher will undertake twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork in a lower-class Casablanca neighborhood. Her research methods will include participant-observation in families, schools, on the street, and in healing institutions in this neighborhood. She also will conduct semi-structured, indepth interviews with both children and adults to understand how new ideas about children are understood and used by children and adults in their everyday lives.The research is important because it will contribute to the growing field of cross-cultural studies of children. Understanding how new ideas influence the behavior and interior lives of both children and adults may contribute to knowledge of how processes of globalization and urbanization change people's ideas about what it means to be normal,, how children should be raised and disciplined, and how these children will grow up experiencing and acting upon the world. This study will contribute to a theoretical understanding of mechanisms underlying social change, as well as an exploration of better practices in the field of child mental health with diverse cultural groups. The research also will contribute to the education of a social scientist.

研究生Christine Nutter在Tanya M.Lhurmann博士的指导下，将进行研究，将西方精神病学和关于正常和异常童年的新伊斯兰思想整合到摩洛哥卡萨布兰卡现有的育儿实践中。尽管构成儿童精神病学的实践在全球范围内显著增加，但很少有社会科学研究评估这一趋势在地方一级的后果。在非西方背景下采用这些做法的影响包括可能重新调整社会对儿童和自我的看法，以及如何对待处于困境中的儿童。与此同时，在北非和中东，新兴的伊斯兰复兴运动提供了一种关于童年和疾病的相互竞争的观点，强调坚持伊斯兰信仰和习俗，并在这些范围内谈判现代生活。这位研究人员将在卡萨布兰卡的一个下层社区进行为期12个月的人种学田野调查。她的研究方法将包括在家庭、学校、街道和附近的康复机构进行参与式观察。她还将对儿童和成人进行半结构化的深度访谈，以了解儿童和成人在日常生活中如何理解和使用关于儿童的新观念。这项研究很重要，因为它将有助于不断增长的跨文化儿童研究领域。了解新思想如何影响儿童和成年人的行为和内心生活，可能有助于了解全球化和城市化进程如何改变人们关于什么是正常的观念，如何抚养和管教孩子，以及这些孩子将如何成长，体验和行动于世界。这项研究将有助于从理论上理解社会变化的潜在机制，以及探索不同文化群体在儿童心理健康领域的更好做法。这项研究还将有助于社会科学家的教育。