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

SES-1024478克里斯托弗WearePaul LichtermanNina EliasophNicole Esparza南加州大学本项目将人种学研究与社会网络分析相结合，以调查一个大型组织领域如何定义和追求洛杉矶的住房问题。它问：不同的组织如何决定一个问题是一个“住房”问题或与一个问题有关？住房问题可以广义地定义为缺乏资源、政治权力、文化承认或三者兼而有之的地方。问题是如何集体，解决问题的活动（公民参与）跨机构部门和行为者应对公共问题。由于公共问题是住房问题，人们关心的是志愿、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重点。研究人员将调查使住房问题成为某些组织而不是其他组织议程项目的组织风格。对一系列组织进行人种学工作和网络分析相结合，以跟踪哪些组织在住房领域处于中心或边缘地位。通过这种方式，它将发现哪种组织风格和界定住房问题的方式得到最广泛的接受。定量的网络数据有助于指导研究人员以人种学的方式研究哪些案例研究。更广泛的影响：该项目为政策制定者和公民澄清了公众参与的不同风格。它显示了组织风格的政策，联盟建设，并纳入低收入和历史上被剥夺了权利的群体的实际后果。

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.