Doctoral Dissertation Research: Parallel Economies of Youth Socialization in a Chicago Neighborhood

博士论文研究：芝加哥社区青年社会化的平行经济

• 批准号: 0751849
• 负责人: John Comaroff
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 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: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-03-01 至 2009-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0751849&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Parallel; Economies

Graduate student Lawrence Ralph, supervised by Dr. John L. Comaroff, will undertake twelve months of research on youth socialization into or away from crime in a Chicago neighborhood. The focus will be on the parallel economies of rap discourse as observed in two different music production companies, one abetting gang participation and the other inspiring youth to avoid an illegal lifestyle. The researcher will use participant observation field methods, including community residence, interviews, discourse analysis, and computer-assisted text analysis techniques.The research is important because it will contribute to social science understanding of the material effects of cultural representations, by exploring the relations between representational forms and social practice. It will help to design better social policy for inner city youth. It also will contribute to the education of a social scientist from an underrepresented group.

研究生劳伦斯拉尔夫，由约翰L。科马罗夫将在芝加哥的一个社区进行为期12个月的关于青少年社会化的研究。重点将是在两个不同的音乐制作公司中观察到的说唱话语的平行经济，一个教唆帮派参与，另一个激励青年避免非法生活方式。 研究者将使用参与观察的实地方法，包括社区居住、访谈、话语分析和计算机辅助文本分析技术。这项研究是重要的，因为它将有助于社会科学理解文化表征的物质效果，通过探索表征形式和社会实践之间的关系。这将有助于为内城青年设计更好的社会政策。它也将有助于教育一个社会科学家从一个代表性不足的群体。