Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: Regional Influence on Social Network Development

博士论文改进奖：区域对社交网络发展的影响

• 批准号: 1644359
• 负责人: Jennifer Birch
• 金额: $ 2.86万
• 依托单位: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-01 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1644359&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Award; Regional

Jacob Lulewicz from the University of Georgia will study how processes of societal transformation, including the emergence of sociopolitical hierarchies and socioeconomic inequalities, are shaped by the scale and structure of social networks. Previous scholarship on the development of organizationally complex institutions has focused on defining changes from one type of sociopolitical strategy to another through the identification of particular organizational traits at particular moments in time. However, these critical transformations are inherently embedded in broader historical and relational contexts, and are enacted through new and existing social, political, and economic networks. Archaeology is well suited to elucidating the relationships between social networks and societal change by focusing on the deep historical roots of institutions and capturing the historical and geographic nuances of sociopolitical development. Social networks contextualize societal change by both constraining and providing the means through which information is spread, social movements are facilitated, and ideas and innovations are adopted or rejected. The research will be conducted in the Southern Appalachian region of the Southeastern United States, where at ca. A.D. 1000, political leadership became centralized, large-scale political economies were formed through the mass intensification of agricultural production, social and economic inequalities became engrained, and participation in pan-regional ritual institutions proliferated.Social networks at two complementary scales of analysis will be examined: 1) local networks, based on informal and frequent interactions, and 2) panregional networks, based on political affiliation and participation in religious and other cross-cutting institutions. Each network will be interrogated to better understand how they structured the emergence of new organizational strategies. Specific focus will be on the areas of modern day northwestern Georgia and eastern Tennessee where the characteristics and temporality of sociopolitical change followed distinct developmental trajectories. The researchers will construct network histories of Southern Appalachia to compare the differing sociopolitical trajectories of the northwestern Georgia and eastern Tennessee regions. The scale, structure, and tempo of changes to social networks across Southern Appalachia will be elucidated through (a) the construction of a regionally-integrated Bayesian radiocarbon dating program, (b) the construction of a regional database of stylistic and technological ceramic attributes, and (c) the assessment of regional patterning of politico-religious iconography through the analysis of shell gorget motifs and mortuary practices.

佐治亚大学的雅各布·卢勒维奇（Jacob Lulewicz）将研究社会网络的规模和结构如何塑造社会转型过程，包括社会政治等级制度和社会经济不平等的出现。先前关于组织复杂机构发展的学术研究侧重于通过识别特定时刻的特定组织特征来定义从一种类型的社会政治策略到另一种类型的社会政治策略的变化。然而，这些关键转变本质上植根于更广泛的历史和关系背景，并通过新的和现有的社会、政治和经济网络来实施。考古学非常适合通过关注制度的深层历史根源并捕捉社会政治发展的历史和地理细微差别来阐明社会网络与社会变革之间的关系。社交网络通过限制和提供信息传播、促进社会运动以及采纳或拒绝思想和创新的手段来实现社会变革。该研究将在美国东南部的南阿巴拉契亚地区进行，该地区位于大约。公元1000年，政治领导变得集中，大规模的政治经济通过农业生产的大规模集约化形成，社会和经济不平等变得根深蒂固，泛区域仪式机构的参与激增。将研究两个互补分析尺度的社会网络：1）基于非正式和频繁互动的本地网络，2）基于政治归属和参与的泛区域网络 在宗教和其他跨领域机构中。每个网络都将受到询问，以更好地了解它们如何构建新组织战略的出现。具体重点将放在现代乔治亚州西北部和田纳西州东部地区，这些地区的社会政治变化的特征和时间性遵循不同的发展轨迹。研究人员将构建南阿巴拉契亚的网络历史，以比较乔治亚州西北部和田纳西州东部地区不同的社会政治轨迹。将通过以下方式阐明整个阿巴拉契亚南部社交网络变化的规模、结构和节奏：(a) 构建区域一体化的贝叶斯放射性碳测年计划，(b) 构建风格和技术陶瓷属性的区域数据库，以及 (c) 通过分析贝壳图案和太平间对政治宗教图像的区域模式进行评估 做法。