Doctoral Dissertation Research: Identity Formation in the Military

博士论文研究：军队中的身份形成

• 批准号: 1904214
• 负责人: Robert Wuthnow
• 金额: $ 1.6万
• 依托单位: Princeton University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-04-01 至 2020-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1904214&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Identity; Formation

Policy changes in the past ten years ? such as women?s admission into combat roles, and new accommodations for ethnic and religious minorities-- have brought questions about military identity to the forefront of national conversation. These policies allow for soldiers to express their individual identities; however, they also challenge popular conceptions of soldiers, raising concerns and possible conflict. This project examines how larger trends of resocialization and accommodation play out in the day-to-day lives of new soldiers. The project investigates the experiences of incoming cadet candidates at the United States Military Academy Preparatory School in West Point (USMAPS). The project examines how USMAPS works to (re)socialize cadet candidates into soldiers and future officers, and how cadet candidates, whose civilian identities are constrained by a regimented institutional context, re-fashion personal self-definitions and routines. The project will study how cadets interpret and respond to this re-socialization as they prepare for future military service. The findings will contribute to understanding of how the military and other modern institutions socialize new participants to develop human capital suitable to new institutional roles. This project uses ethnographic fieldwork, in-depth interviews, and quantitative text analysis to address questions regarding socialization into the military. The fieldwork involves participating in cadet candidate academic, physical, character and military development training. The project will conduct over 100 interviews with cadet candidates from a variety of social backgrounds, as well as additional interviews with staff. The project will also include forty hometown visits to observe cadet candidate behavior outside of the institutional setting, to see their neighborhoods, and interview family members about how they perceive the cadet candidate career choices and any changes they have noticed in behavior. The project also employs quantitative text analysis to study contemporary and historical documents related to the integration of women and minorities at West Point and in the U.S. military. Project findings will contribute to sociological literatures on organizations, diversity and culture, particularly as they relate to re-socialization into critical U.S. institutions.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.

十年来，政策发生了哪些变化？比如女性？美国军队进入战斗岗位，以及对少数民族和宗教少数群体的新安置，使有关军队身份的问题成为全国对话的焦点。这些政策允许士兵表达他们的个人身份;然而，它们也挑战了对士兵的普遍看法，引起了关切和可能的冲突。该项目研究了重新融入社会和住宿的大趋势如何在新士兵的日常生活中发挥作用。该项目调查了西点美国军事学院预备学校即将入学的学员的经历。该项目研究了USMAPS如何工作（重新）社会化学员候选人成为士兵和未来的军官，以及学员候选人，其平民身份受到严格的制度环境的限制，重新塑造个人的自我定义和惯例。 该项目将研究学员如何解释和应对这种重新社会化，因为他们准备未来的军事服务。 研究结果将有助于理解军队和其他现代机构如何使新参与者社会化，以发展适合新机构角色的人力资本。 这个项目使用民族志田野调查，深入访谈，定量文本分析，以解决有关社会化到军队的问题。 实地工作包括参加学员候选人的学术，身体，性格和军事发展训练。该项目将与来自各种社会背景的学员候选人进行100多次面试，并与工作人员进行额外面试。该项目还将包括40个家乡访问，以观察学员候选人在机构设置之外的行为，看看他们的社区，并采访家庭成员，了解他们如何看待学员候选人的职业选择以及他们注意到的任何行为变化。 该项目还采用定量文本分析来研究与妇女和少数民族在西点和美国军队中融合有关的当代和历史文件。 项目的研究结果将有助于社会学文献的组织，多样性和文化，特别是因为它们涉及到重新社会化到关键的美国institutions.This奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得的支持，通过评估使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。