Managing the Honor and Stigma of Disjunctive Identities

管理分离身份的荣誉和耻辱

• 批准号: 1827386
• 负责人: Sara Dickey
• 金额: $ 9.84万
• 依托单位: Bowdoin College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-15 至 2021-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1827386&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Managing; Honor; Stigma; Disjunctive; Identities

The research supported by this award investigates social groups that have highly disjunctive identities. Disjunctive identities are two or more shared forms of identity that are ranked very differently. The researcher asks how these groups and the people in them manage how they see themselves and the social status assigned to them, and how outsiders respond to those management efforts. Such groups often wish to present their more highly ranked identity as a visible public face, yet they may simultaneously wish to preserve the traditions and values of their other, less esteemed identity. While a wide range of research has explored the experiences of individuals, families, or even larger subsets of groups with disjunctive identities, almost no research has been carried out among entire groups who consciously and intentionally bear one identity considered high status and the other considered much lower. This research will help policy-makers, practitioners, and social scientists understand how social groups live with and manage disjunctive identities, as well as provide models for how such groups may promote their own interests.This research will take place in Madurai, South India, where the researcher, anthropologist Dr. Sara Dickey of Bowdoin College, has carried out ethnographic fieldwork since 1985. She has chosen to focus on the case of the Hindu Nadars, because they have historically occupied one of the lowest ranks in the caste system but today also form one of the wealthiest groups in the region, well-known for public philanthropy such as building hospitals and schools. The researcher will focus on the role of Nadar community organizations, which, for more than a century, have actively tried to control the types of Nadar behaviors and values that are made visible to the larger public and the debates about values and identities that occur within these organizations. The researcher will gather data with a mix of ethnographic methods, including participant observation, the collection of oral histories, interviews, and archival research. Findings from the research will elucidate the extent to which economic success and cultural sophistication can mitigate social discrimination, and how recent developments, such as economic globalization, have affected this process. Results may provide models for U.S. settings and may suggest new approaches to help under-represented students manage disparate identities and thereby enhance academic and social success.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项支持的研究调查了具有高度脱节身份的社会群体。析取身份是两种或多种共享形式的身份形式，排名较大。研究人员询问这些群体和他们中的人如何管理他们如何看待自己以及分配给他们的社会地位，以及外部人员如何应对这些管理的努力。这样的群体通常希望将其排名更高的身份作为可见的公众面孔，但他们可能同时希望保留其其他，不太受人尊敬的身份的传统和价值观。尽管广泛的研究探索了个人，家庭甚至更大的具有脱节性身份的群体的经验，但在整个群体中，几乎没有进行任何研究，他们有意识地和有意具有一种身份，被认为是高地位，而另一种则认为较低。这项研究将帮助政策制定者，实践者和社会科学家了解社会群体如何与社会群体生活和管理，并为这些群体如何促进自己的利益提供模型。这项研究将在印度南部的马杜赖进行，人类研究员，人类学家，鲍尔多学院的Sara Dickey博士在1985年以来一直在现场进行了专注的案例。占领了种姓制度中最低的排名之一，但如今也构成了该地区最富有的群体之一，以公共慈善事业（例如建筑医院和学校）而闻名。研究人员将专注于纳达尔社区组织的作用，纳达尔社区组织（Nadar Community Enagistrations）在一个多世纪以来，已经积极地试图控制纳达尔行为和价值观的类型，这些行为和价值观和价值观对这些组织中发生的价值观和身份的辩论可见。研究人员将通过民族志方法的混合来收集数据，包括参与者观察，口述历史，访谈和档案研究的收集。研究结果将阐明经济成功和文化成就可以减轻社会歧视的程度，以及最近的发展（例如经济全球化）如何影响这一过程。结果可能会为美国环境提供模型，并可能提出新的方法，以帮助代表性不足的学生管理不同的身份，从而增强了学术和社会成功。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准通过评估来获得支持的。