Workshop: Bridging the Gap. A Mini-Conference on Race and the Environment: Philadephia, PA - August 10, 2018

研讨会：弥合差距。

• 批准号: 1833484
• 负责人: Michael Mascarenhas
• 金额: $ 1.92万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 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: 2018-06-01 至 2019-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1833484&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Bridging; Gap.; Mini; Conference

Minority scholar participation in the study of environmental sociology is low, leading to potential biases in topics addressed and analytical approaches to them. The Workshop will provide a forum for scholars and practitioners to discuss strategies that would advance a more theoretically robust and methodologically rigorous environmental sociology that seeks to overcome institutional and disciplinary obstacles to advancing the study of race and the environment in sociology and in the sub-discipline of environmental sociology. This Workshop will bring together U.S.-based scholars to share work that draws on theoretical frameworks that are outside of the traditional purview of environmental sociology to address the lack of diversity in scholarship in the sub-discipline. This Workshop aligns well with the core value of inclusiveness and the strategic goal of innovative interdisciplinary collaboration outlined in the NSF Strategic Plan for 2014-2018. Both initiatives strive to increase the participation of underrepresented groups in scientific inquiry. Over the past four decades, membership in the Environmental Sociology (ES) section of the American Sociological Association (ASA) has steadily grown to reach 510 members in 2017, which is slightly higher than the section average of 505 for all 52 ASA sections. However, the percentage of African American, Hispanic/Latino(a), and Asian/Asian American scholars in the ES section is very low in comparison to other ASA sections and the association overall. Just under 5% of section members identified as Asian/Asian American in 2005 and 2016, and around 2.5% as Hispanic/Latino(a) in 2005 and 2016. Regular ES members who identify as African American increased from zero members in 2005 to seven in 2016, and now represent 2.5% of section membership. The proposal argues that the lack of diversity in ES and in the subfield of environmental sociology is a result of lack of engagement with other disciplinary fields. The one-day workshop will increase the range of theoretical and methodological discussion in the subfield, thus encouraging greater diversity in both scientific approaches as well as in the demographics of participation.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.

少数民族学者对环境社会学研究的参与程度很低，导致对所讨论的主题和分析方法存在潜在的偏见。讲习班将为学者和从业人员提供一个论坛，讨论各种战略，以推动一种理论上更健全、方法上更严谨的环境社会学，力求克服体制和学科障碍，推动社会学和环境社会学分支学科中的种族与环境研究。 本次研讨会将汇集美国-基础的学者分享工作，借鉴了理论框架，是传统的环境社会学的范围之外，以解决在子学科的学术缺乏多样性。本次研讨会与包容性的核心价值和NSF 2014-2018年战略计划中概述的创新跨学科合作的战略目标保持一致。这两项举措都力求增加代表性不足的群体对科学探究的参与。在过去的四十年里，美国社会学协会（阿萨）环境社会学（ES）部门的成员稳步增长，2017年达到510名成员，略高于所有52个阿萨部门的平均505名成员。 然而，非裔美国人，西班牙裔/拉丁美洲人（a）和亚洲/亚裔美国人学者在ES部分的比例是非常低的其他阿萨部分和协会整体相比。在2005年和2016年，只有不到5%的成员被确定为亚洲/亚裔美国人，在2005年和2016年，大约2.5%的成员被确定为西班牙裔/拉丁裔（a）。非裔美国人的正式成员从2005年的零成员增加到2016年的七个，现在占部门成员的2.5%。该提案认为，环境科学和环境社会学子领域缺乏多样性是缺乏与其他学科领域接触的结果。为期一天的研讨会将扩大该子领域的理论和方法论讨论的范围，从而鼓励科学方法和参与人口统计学的更大多样性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。