Strengthening Qualitative Research through Methodological Innovation and Integration: Applying Social Network Analysis and Ethnography to Housing Issues

christopher WearePaul LichtermanNina EliasophNicole esparza南加州大学该项目将人种学研究与社会网络分析相结合，以调查洛杉矶大型组织如何定义和追求住房问题。它的问题是：不同的组织如何决定一个问题是“住房”问题还是与住房有关？住房问题可以广义地定义为那些缺乏资源、政治权力、文化认可或三者兼而有之的地区。问题是跨机构部门和行动者的集体解决问题活动（公民参与）如何应对公共问题。既然公共问题是住房，那么关注的是自愿、政府或商业组织、联盟和联盟如何应对这一问题，即使这不是他们的主要关注点。研究人员将调查使住房问题成为某些组织议程项目的组织风格，而不是其他组织。民族志工作和网络分析的结合在一系列组织中进行，以跟踪哪些组织是住房领域的中心或外围组织。通过这种方式，它将发现定义住房问题的组织风格和方法是最被广泛接受的。定量的网络数据有助于研究人员确定人种学上要研究哪些案例。而且，人种学的定性工作有助于揭示不可预见的网络数据。更广泛的影响：该项目向决策者和公民阐明了公众参与的多种方式。它展示了组织风格对政策、联盟建设和包容低收入和历史上被剥夺权利的群体的实际影响。

SES-1024478Christopher WearePaul LichtermanNina EliasophNicole EsparzaUniversity of Southern CaliforniaThis project integrates ethnographic research with social network analysis to investigate how a large field of organizations define and pursue housing issues in Los Angeles. It asks: How do different organizations decide an issue is a "housing" issue or related to one? Housing issues may are broadly defined as those locale that lack resources, political power, cultural recognition or a combination of all three. At issue is how collective, problem-solving activity (civic engagement) across institutional sectors and actors respond to a public problem. Since the public problem is housing, the concerns is how voluntary, governmental or commercial organizations, coalitions, and alliances respond to this problem, even when it is not their primary focus. The researchers will investigate organizational styles that make the housing problem an agenda item in some organizations and not others. A combination of ethnographic work and network analyses are carried out over a range of organizations to track which organizations are central or peripheral in the housing field. In this way it will discover which organizational styles and ways of defining housing issues are most widely accepted. The quantitative, network data helps to orient the researchers as to which case studies to examine, ethnographically. And, ethnographic, qualitative work helps to reveal unforeseen network data.Broader Impacts: The project clarifies for policy-makers and citizens the diverse styles of public involvement. It shows the organizational styles' practical consequences for policy, coalition-building, and inclusion of low-income and historically disenfranchised groups.