Collaborative Research: Understanding the Economic Crisis and it's Social Impacts through Postdoctoral Fellowships

摘要SES-0957962 Karen S.库克大卫格鲁斯基斯坦福大学SES-0957200维克托尼金威登康奈尔大学SES-0957900保罗迪马吉奥普林斯顿大学SES-0957923布鲁斯西哈佛大学SES-0958093尼尔弗莱格斯坦加州大学伯克利分校SES-0956546埃里克赖特乔尔罗杰斯威斯康星州大学-麦迪逊美国和世界经济目前正经历大萧条以来最广泛和最严重的衰退。由康奈尔大学、加州大学伯克利分校、哈佛大学、普林斯顿大学、斯坦福大学和威斯康星州大学社会学系的经济社会学和社会不平等研究中心主办的六所大学组成的小组将完成对这场历史性经济危机的原因和后果的研究。经济衰退本身对有效市场的经济社会学以及对风险和信任等概念的传统理解提出了根本性的挑战，这些概念是所有社会科学的核心。它还可能对社会不平等产生重要影响--不仅仅是收入不平等，还有储蓄、求职和教育投资等经济行为，以及健康和福利、生育和离婚以及犯罪受害等结果。该项目将支持12名博士后研究员，他们将与六所大学的教师合作，完成独立研究，同时接受培训和指导，这将揭示危机的原因及其对社会不平等和美国机构的影响。更广泛的影响：这项研究将有助于我们了解经济衰退的社会后果。具体而言，本课题将从社会学的角度，对金融危机是如何发生的、经济衰退的社会后果是什么、其影响如何分布、应对经济危机的政策是什么、其后果是什么这三个紧迫的问题进行探讨。该项目还将提供一个职业发展的机会，为一个新的社会学博士在私立大学部门的捐赠下降，在各州税收下降的时候。通过为一群年轻学者提供一个立足点，使他们能够为我们理解挑战他们正在进入的劳动力市场的危机做出贡献，调查人员希望防止该领域在以前的严重衰退中经历的人才流失，并确保研究生培训机构在上世纪70年代和80年代聘用的教师即将退休之际，拥有一个强大而稳定的新人才管道。

Abstract SES-0957962 Karen S. Cook David Grusky Stanford University SES-0957200 Victor Nee Kim Weeden Cornell University SES-0957900 Paul DiMaggio Princeton University SES-0957923 Bruce Western Harvard University SES-0958093 Neil Fligstein University of California-Berkeley SES-0956546 Erik Wright Joel Rogers University of Wisconsin-Madison The United States and the world economy are currently experiencing the most extensive and intense downturn since the Great Depression. A six-university team hosted by Centers for the study of economic sociology and social inequality associated with the Sociology Departments at Cornell, University of California at Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford and the University of Wisconsin that share outstanding reputations and strong track records in economic sociology and related specialties will complete research on the causes and consequences of this historic economic crisis. The recession itself presents a fundamental challenge to the economic sociology of efficient markets and to conventional understandings of concepts like risk and trust that are central to all of the social sciences. It is also likely to have important effects on social inequality -- not just inequality in income, but in economic behaviors like savings, job-hunting, and investments in education, as well as such outcomes as health and wellness, fertility and divorce, and criminal victimization. The project will support twelve postdoctoral research fellows who will work with faculty at the six universities to complete independent research while receive training and mentoring, that will cast light on the causes of the crisis and its impact on social inequality and on U.S. institutions. Broader Impact: The research will help to inform our understanding of the social consequences of the recession. Specifically, the project will bring a sociological perspective to three pressing questions: (1) how did the financial crisis happen, (2) what are the social consequences of the recession, and how is its impacts distributed, and (3) what are the policy responses to the economic crisis and what are their consequences? The project will also provide a career development opportunity for a diverse set of new Sociology Ph.D.s at a time of declining endowments in the private university sector and declining tax revenues in the states. By providing a footing for a group of young scholars and enabling them to contribute to our understanding of the very crisis that has challenged the labor market into which they are moving, the investigators hope to prevent the loss of talent that the field has experienced in previous severe recessions, and to ensure that graduate-training institutions have a robust and consistent pipeline of new talent as faculty hired in the 1970s and 1980s move towards retirement.