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

S-1024478 Christopher WearePaul Lichterman Nina EliasophNicole Espza南加州大学这个项目将人种学研究与社会网络分析相结合，调查大范围的组织如何定义和追求洛杉矶的住房问题。它问：不同的组织如何确定一个问题是“住房”问题或与之相关的问题？住房问题可能被广泛地定义为缺乏资源、政治权力、文化认可度或两者兼而有之的地区。争论的焦点是跨机构部门和行为者的集体、解决问题的活动(公民参与)如何应对公共问题。由于公共问题是住房，人们关心的是志愿组织、政府或商业组织、联盟和联盟如何应对这个问题，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一些组织的议程项目而不是其他组织的组织风格。在一系列组织中进行人种学工作和网络分析相结合，以跟踪哪些组织是住房领域的中心组织或边缘组织。通过这种方式，它将发现哪些组织风格和定义住房问题的方式最被广泛接受。量化的网络数据有助于引导研究人员从人种学的角度审视哪些案例研究。而且，人种学、定性的工作有助于揭示不可预见的网络数据。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。它展示了组织风格对政策、联盟建设以及纳入低收入和历史上被剥夺公民权的群体的实际影响。

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.