Summer Institutes for Cross-Cultural Anthropological Research

跨文化人类学研究暑期学院

• 批准号: 2020156
• 负责人: Carol Ember
• 金额: $ 32.93万
• 依托单位: Human Relations Area Files
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2020156&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Summer; Institutes; Cross; Cultural; Anthropological

This award supports the training and professional development of scientists is anthropological science by supporting the Summer Institutes for Cross-Cultural Anthropological Research. These institutes will train faculty, researchers, and advanced graduate students in the theory and state-of-the art methods for conducting regional and worldwide comparative research so that these methods can be incorporated into courses and cross-cultural research using anthropological data. Cross-cultural findings derived from anthropological data are critical to many social sciences (e.g., psychology, sociology, economics, political science), particularly when testing the generalizability of important theories for policy. Anthropology departments differ in their ability to offer training in appropriate and modern quantitative methods for cross-cultural analysis, and these institutes fill a critical gap in training for a new generation of researchers. To expand the training to a wider circle of faculty, post-docs, and students, institute instructors will prepare learning modules (presentations, datasets, exercises) that will be made available online in an open-access format at the conclusion of the institutes. The institutes consist of instruction that covers all phases of regional and worldwide comparisons from project conception through statistical analysis. Instructors in the institute will teach strategies consistent with scientific principles, including selecting samples that adequately represent a population, which is especially important for answering descriptive questions, deriving testable hypotheses from specified theoretical principles, designing appropriate operational measures from theoretical constructs, taking steps to minimize random and systematic error, deploying appropriate analysis strategies, and exercising appropriate caution in the nature of conclusions that can be drawn. Each participant will design and execute a pilot project during their time at an institute. Prior to the experience, two types of preparatory materials will be produced. First, to facilitate using data from different cross-cultural samples, a concordance between commonly used cross-cultural samples will be expanded, upgraded, and put into an online open-access format. Second, instructors will prepare statistical materials so that accepted participants can brush up on basic statistics and learn the rudiments of R (an open-source statistical environment) prior to attendance.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.

该奖项通过支持夏季跨文化人类学研究所来支持科学家的培训和专业发展。这些研究所将培训教师，研究人员和高级研究生进行区域和全球比较研究的理论和最先进的方法，以便这些方法可以纳入课程和跨文化研究使用人类学数据。来自人类学数据的跨文化发现对许多社会科学至关重要（例如，心理学、社会学、经济学、政治学），特别是在检验重要政策理论的普遍性时。人类学系在提供跨文化分析的适当和现代定量方法培训方面的能力各不相同，这些研究所填补了新一代研究人员培训方面的关键空白。为了将培训扩大到更广泛的教师，博士后和学生，研究所教师将准备学习模块（演示文稿，数据集，练习），这些模块将在研究所结束时以开放获取的形式在线提供。这些研究所的教学内容涵盖了从项目构想到统计分析的区域和全球比较的所有阶段。研究所的教师将教授与科学原则相一致的策略，包括选择充分代表人口的样本，这对于回答描述性问题尤为重要，从指定的理论原则中得出可检验的假设，从理论结构中设计适当的操作措施，采取措施尽量减少随机和系统误差，部署适当的分析策略，并对可能得出的结论的性质保持适当的谨慎。每个参与者将在他们在研究所的时间设计和执行一个试点项目。在体验之前，将制作两种类型的准备材料。首先，为了方便使用来自不同跨文化样本的数据，将扩大、升级常用跨文化样本之间的索引，并将其纳入在线开放获取格式。第二，讲师将准备统计材料，以便被录取的参与者在参加之前可以复习基本的统计数据，并学习R（一种开源统计环境）的基础知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。