Doctoral Dissertation Research: Social Networks and Class in a Contemporary Caribbean Society

博士论文研究：当代加勒比社会的社交网络和阶级

• 批准号: 1260107
• 负责人: Brett Williams
• 金额: $ 2.3万
• 依托单位: American University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-02-01 至 2014-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1260107&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Social; Networks

Doctoral Dissertation Research: Social Networks and Class in a Contemporary Caribbean SocietyAmerican University anthropology doctoral candidate, Hope Bastian Martinez, supervised by Dr. Brett Williams, will investigate how individuals of different social groups living in an urban setting use personal networks to resolve everyday socioeconomic challenges encountered in a historic moment characterized by rapid changes, generalized uncertainty, and growing economic inequalities. This research will explore how changes in consumption practices and new opportunities for consumption are affecting social networks, processes of stratification, and emerging identities.The researcher will map personal networks through methods of participant observation in two sites of sociability central to the active everyday construction and maintenance of social networks, and structured interviews. Research questions query whether there is evidence that ties formed in the period of austerity and re-stratification following the end of the Cold War might connect the new "top" and "bottom" of society. The research design will test whether these networks mitigate the effects of growing economic inequalities by informally distributing wealth and opportunities through personal ties.This research is important because it will contribute to new theories of social inequality in the contemporary world. The research findings may also be of value to policymakers who are seeking to target social policy to address social inequalities. This research also supports the education of a graduate student.

博士论文研究：社交网络和类在当代加勒比societyAmerican大学人类学博士候选人，希望巴斯蒂安马丁内斯，由布雷特威廉姆斯博士监督，将调查如何不同的社会群体生活在城市环境中的个人使用个人网络，以解决日常社会经济的挑战，在一个历史性的时刻遇到的特点是快速变化，普遍的不确定性，和日益增长的经济不平等。这项研究将探索消费实践的变化和新的消费机会如何影响社交网络、分层过程和新兴身份。研究人员将通过参与者观察方法在两个社交性地点绘制个人网络，这两个社交性地点对积极的日常建设至关重要。和维护社交网络以及结构化访谈。研究问题质疑是否有证据表明，在冷战结束后的紧缩和重新分层时期形成的关系可能会连接新的社会“上层”和“下层”。研究设计将测试这些网络是否通过个人关系非正式地分配财富和机会来减轻日益增长的经济不平等的影响。这项研究很重要，因为它将有助于当代世界社会不平等的新理论。研究结果也可能对寻求以社会政策为目标解决社会不平等问题的决策者有价值。这项研究也支持研究生的教育。