RAPID: Community Cooperation in Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic.

RAPID：社区合作应对 Covid-19 大流行。

• 批准号: 2032523
• 负责人: Frederick Weil
• 金额: $ 10.67万
• 依托单位: Louisiana State University
• 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: 2020-06-15 至 2022-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2032523&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Community; Cooperation; Response; Covid

pIn most major disasters, people in communities come together to respond to the challenges. The COVID-19 pandemic is a major disaster, but a pandemic is different because it turns the usual face-to-face community cooperation itself into a source of threat, namely, the risk of infection. This project addresses a novel question: What new forms of cooperation do people develop when they cannot easily come together in traditional ways? The project will study community leaders and residents in the city of New Orleans and state of Louisiana, places with much experience in responding to disasters, but which have consequently developed significant traditions of innovation. The project will identify (a) innovative strategies that community leaders are pursuing in response to the pandemic and economic dislocations - which, notably, emphasize synergies of mutual assistance under conditions of social distancing - and (b) the impact that the pandemic and the economic downturn are having on the general public: how people respond to the new initiatives, and how well assistance is getting through. The project will identify best practices and promising innovations that can be shared with other communities, thus informing community leaders nationwide who can formulate and implement new policies to facilitate recovery, thus promoting safety and security in our society./p pThis project investigates what new forms of cooperation people develop in the face of disaster when they cannot easily come together in traditional ways. It uses two sets of qualitative directed, open-ended, in-depth interviews. First, the project will interview about 15-30 community leaders in New Orleans, a city with broad experience in community response to disasters, building on project leaders' extensive contacts with community leaders, developed over 15 years of research and continually updated. Second, the project will use Louisiana State University (LSU) undergraduates to interview about 100-200 friends and family in the general public about their life conditions in the time of the pandemic. The diversity of LSU students will be leveraged to obtain a diverse, qualitative sample across income, race, gender, and age lines. The project will conduct three waves of interviews with each group over a 12 month period, following the course of the pandemic over that time. The project will analyze these in-depth interviews using qualitative data analysis software, seeking themes and patterns of community response. Findings will contribute to sociological theories on disasters and community organization./p pThis project is jointly funded by the Sociology Program and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR)./p pThis 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./p

p在大多数重大灾害中，社区中的人们团结起来应对挑战。 COVID-19大流行是一场重大灾难，但大流行不同，因为它将通常面对面的社区合作本身变成了威胁的来源，即感染的风险。 这个项目解决了一个新的问题：当人们不能以传统的方式轻松地走到一起时，他们会发展出什么新的合作形式？ 该项目将研究新奥尔良市和路易斯安那州的社区领导人和居民，这些地方在应对灾害方面有很多经验，但也因此发展了重要的创新传统。 该项目将确定（a）社区领导人为应对流行病和经济混乱而采取的创新战略-其中特别强调在保持社交距离的条件下相互援助的协同作用-以及（B）流行病和经济衰退对公众的影响：人们如何应对新举措，以及援助的效果如何。 该项目将确定可与其他社区分享的最佳做法和有前途的创新，从而向全国各地的社区领导人提供信息，他们可以制定和实施新的政策，以促进恢复，从而促进我们社会的安全和保障。p p这个项目调查人们在面对灾难时，当他们不能以传统方式轻松地走到一起时，他们会发展出什么新的合作形式。 它使用两套定性的定向，开放式，深入的采访。 首先，该项目将在新奥尔良采访大约15-30名社区领导人，新奥尔良是一个在社区应对灾害方面具有广泛经验的城市，建立在项目领导人与社区领导人的广泛联系基础上，经过15年的研究发展并不断更新。 其次，该项目将利用路易斯安那州立大学（LSU）的本科生，采访大约100-200名普通公众的朋友和家人，了解他们在大流行时期的生活状况。 LSU学生的多样性将被利用，以获得跨收入，种族，性别和年龄线的多样化，定性样本。该项目将在12个月内对每个群体进行三波采访，跟踪这段时间的大流行过程。 该项目将使用定性数据分析软件分析这些深入访谈，寻找社区反应的主题和模式。 研究结果将有助于灾害和社区组织的社会学理论。p p本项目由社会学计划和促进竞争研究的既定计划（EPSCoR）联合资助。/ p p该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。/ p