Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Life History Perspectives on Violent Conflict

博士论文改进补助金：暴力冲突的生活史视角

• 批准号: 0753741
• 负责人: James Jones
• 金额: $ 1.36万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 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: 2008-04-15 至 2009-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0753741&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Life

Graduate student Brodie Ferguson, working under the direction of Dr. James Holland Jones, will undertake research to examine the mechanisms through which homicidal violence at the community level realizes and reinforces unequal power relations at the family and interpersonal levels. The relationship between violent conflict and the nature and timing of significant life history events, such as marriage, migration, and childbirth, remains poorly understood. Empirical studies of behavior and culture in low sex-ratio settings are scarce, yet these are precisely the demographic conditions expected to prevail in situations of violent conflict worldwide. Furthermore, theory and evidence demonstrate that unbalanced sex ratios resulting from excess male death carry substantial implications with respect to intrafamiliar power relations, levels of parental investment, and childrearing practices. The researcher will combine existing demographic data from government registries, household surveys, and other sources with original ethnographic research in Colombia. The research will proceed in three phases: (1) collection of demographic data, (2) focused ethnographic research, and (3) the development of formal models of the life course, the predictions of which will be evaluated with respect to both measured values from the representative demographic and survey data and individual stated preferences. By integrating semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and formal demographic techniques into a common life history approach, the project will examine the objective and perceived ways in which community violence conditions certain individual decisions and behaviors made over the life course. As the first study of its kind in a largely industrialized society afflicted by chronic civil strife, the findings will deepen our understanding of the humanitarian impacts of civil violence and generate a range of practical insights relevant to the design and implementation of effective social policies in Colombia. The research also will contribute to the education of a graduate student.

研究生布罗迪·弗格森博士詹姆斯·荷兰·琼斯的指导下工作，将进行研究，以检查通过杀人暴力在社区一级实现和加强在家庭和人际层面的不平等权力关系的机制。暴力冲突与重大生活史事件（如婚姻、移民和生育）的性质和时间之间的关系仍然知之甚少。对低性别比例环境中的行为和文化的实证研究很少，但这些正是预计在世界各地暴力冲突局势中普遍存在的人口状况。此外，理论和证据表明，过度的男性死亡造成的性别比例失衡进行重大影响方面的家族内部权力关系，父母的投资水平，和育儿的做法。研究人员将联合收割机从政府登记处、家庭调查和其他来源获得的现有人口统计数据与哥伦比亚的原始人种学研究相结合。研究将分三个阶段进行：（1）收集人口统计数据，（2）重点人种学研究，（3）开发生命历程的正式模型，其预测将根据代表性人口统计和调查数据的测量值以及个人陈述的偏好进行评估。通过将半结构化访谈，参与者观察和正式的人口统计技术整合到一个共同的生活史方法中，该项目将研究社区暴力在生命过程中对某些个人决策和行为的客观和感知方式。作为在一个长期内乱的工业化社会中进行的第一次此类研究，研究结果将加深我们对国内暴力的人道主义影响的理解，并产生一系列与哥伦比亚有效社会政策的设计和实施有关的实际见解。本研究也将有助于研究生的教育。