EAGER Exploratory Experiments in Mutual Accommodation

从包含多种文化的最基本意义上说，西欧的每个国家都已成为多元文化。但如何向前推进还远不清楚。法国风格的普世主义并不成功。英国和荷兰采取的方法也没有。如果相互迁就是可取的，那么如何才能实现呢？本研究的目的是确定一个多数民族愿意以多数和少数民族都能接受的条件将穆斯林移民纳入其新社会的正式成员的条件。这将通过在荷兰和丹麦进行一系列实验来实现。这项研究的结果可能对全球正在处理不断增长的少数民族人口的政策制定者有用。相互迁就是社会科学家刚刚开始研究的一个话题。研究这一主题的通常方式是要么使用有限的民族志研究，要么使用国家调查来衡量态度。虽然民族志研究允许人们检查因果因素，但它们在可以检查的场景中是有限的。全国性的调查可以揭示对群体的态度，但很难通过标准的调查问题得到什么行动是可能的。在这项研究中，主要研究者将在两项全国范围的调查中使用一系列调查实验。与通常的人种学方法相比，调查实验将允许在更大的人群中梳理出因果关系。此外，它还将允许审查双方都能接受的住宿水平。

Every country in Western Europe has become multicultural in the most fundamental sense of the containing multiple cultures. But is far from obvious how to go forward. Universalism in the French style has not been successful. Neither has the approach taken by Great Britain or the Netherlands. If mutual accommodation is desirable, how can it take place. This purpose of this study is identify terms under which a national majority will willingly include Muslim immigrants as full members in their new societies on terms acceptable to both the majority and the minority populations. This will be done by conducting a series of experiments in the Netherlands and Denmark. The results of this study could be of use to policy-makers across the globe who are dealing with growing minority populations.Mutual accommodation is a topic that has just begun to be examined by social scientists. The usual manner of studying this topic is to either use limited ethnographic studies or to use national surveys to measure attitudes. While the ethnographic studies allow one to examine causal factors, they are limited in the scenarios that can be examined. The national surveys can uncover attittudes towards groups, but it is difficult through standard survey questions to get at what actions are possible. In this study the principal investigator will be using a series of survey experiments on two surveys that will be national in scope. The survey experiments will allow the teasing out of causation in a much larger population than usual ethnographic methods. In addition, it will allow the examination of what levels of accommodation are acceptable to both sets of parties.