Doctoral Dissertation Research: Bureaucracy and Social Personhood

官僚机构为社区提供重要服务，包括促进对影响生活方式和身份的政策的理解。一些社区，例如土著和部落社区，以不同的方式表达和建立身份，反过来又影响了对官僚支持的接受。亲属观念的变化以及个人主义与集体主义取向的差异影响着社区与官僚机构的互动;对社会变革的渴望可以推动官僚机构努力的扩张或收缩。本研究探讨了社区认同和社区社会运动对官僚制的影响程度。在这样做的过程中，它的目的是重新理论化如何界定和部署官僚机构，以实现积极的变化。该研究支持美国博士生的培训和结果将被广泛传播到不同的audios.This博士论文研究探讨如何与大型捐赠大型官僚机构理解和实现其目的，为社区服务，并在社区和更大的政府实体之间进行调解。它调查了官僚机构在支持和阻碍社区运动中的作用，以及身份在这些过程中是如何形成的。研究人员将在美国官僚机构中进行民族志和语言研究，检查文件和文件实践，对官僚机构和社区场所进行参与性观察，并对官僚和社区利益相关者的日常工作进行半结构化采访。研究人员还将收集官僚和社区利益相关者的生活故事，研究历史事件和一生的经历如何表达社会运动和官僚机构的变化。该研究成果将为官僚主义理论及其在社会运动中的作用做出贡献。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而被认为值得支持。

Bureaucracies provide important services to communities, including facilitating understanding of policies that shape lifeways and identity. Some communities, Indigenous and tribal communities for example, express and build identity in different ways, in turn shaping the receipt of bureaucratic support. Variation in notions of kinship and individualist versus collectivist orientations affect how communities interact with bureaucracies; the desire for social change can drive the expansion or contraction of bureaucratic efforts. This research examines the extent to which bureaucracy is shaped by community identity and community social movements. In doing so, it aims to re-theorize how bureaucracies are defined and deployed to effect positive change. The research supports training of a U.S. doctoral student and results will be disseminated widely to diverse audiences.This doctoral dissertation research examines how large bureaucracies with large endowments understand and achieve their purposes to serve communities and mediate between communities and larger governmental entities. It investigates bureaucratic roles in supporting versus hindering community movements and how identity is shaped in these processes. The researcher will perform ethnographic and linguistic research in U.S. bureaucracies, examining documents and document practices, conducting participant observation of bureaucratic and community venues, and semi-structured interviews of bureaucrats and community stakeholders about their daily work. The researcher will also collect life stories of bureaucrats and community stakeholders, examining how historical events and experience over the life span articulates changes in social movements and bureaucracies. The results of this research will contribute to theories of bureaucracy and its role in social movements.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.