Anthropological Investigation of Social Determinants of Knowledge

知识社会决定因素的人类学调查

• 批准号: 2204269
• 负责人: Jessica Katzenstein
• 金额: $ 13.8万
• 依托单位: Katzenstein, Jessica
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-15 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2204269&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Anthropological; Investigation; Social; Determinants; Knowledge

This award was provided as part of NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) program. The goal of the SPRF program is to prepare promising, early career doctoral-level scientists for scientific careers in academia, industry or private sector, and government. SPRF awards involve two years of training under the sponsorship of established scientists and encourage Postdoctoral Fellows to perform independent research. NSF seeks to promote the participation of scientists from all segments of the scientific community, including those from underrepresented groups, in its research programs and activities; the postdoctoral period is considered to be an important level of professional development in attaining this goal. Each Postdoctoral Fellow must address important scientific questions that advance their respective disciplinary fields. Under the sponsorship of Dr. Lawrence Bobo at Harvard University, and Drs. Tricia Redeker-Hepner and Heather Smith-Cannoy at Arizona State University, this postdoctoral fellowship award supports an early career scientist investigating the social conditions of knowledge production across social initiatives at regional police departments and nonprofit organizations. In the past several decades, workplace programs have increased in popularity promising to produce more favorable institutional outcomes. However, some scholars have criticized these efforts as offering individual solutions for structural problems, and, we understand little of how those involved respond to the initiatives and how their responses challenge ongoing issues. The proposed research will address these questions via a comparative, multi-site ethnographic analysis of social initiatives across two distinct institutions. An ethnographic understanding of how systemic issues persist within these contexts has the potential to improve outcomes. The goal of this proposed study is to contribute to theory and public understanding of social determinants of knowledge within the workplace. The project aims to do so by collecting ethnographic data—including observations of workplace trainings, analyses of program documents, and semi-structured interviews with trainers, employees, and hiring and training managers—from multiple regional police departments and nonprofit organizations. This research will ask how various conceptualizations contribute to participant recruitment and how they compare across institutions; how challenges are managed; and how trainers and employees negotiate participation. It will build upon growing social scientific efforts to examine the conditions of collective knowledge production and will thereby offer fresh insight into the relation between social determinants of knowledge and structural outcomes. Furthermore, this project’s comparative framework will facilitate theorizing about how systemic issues vary across institutions, as well as how uniform policies may not translate across different types of organizations. Through these contributions, this study seeks to enrich public and scholarly conversations about how to best promote more favorable structural outcomes in the workplace.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.

该奖项是作为NSF的社会，行为和经济科学博士后研究奖学金（SPRF）计划的一部分提供的。SPRF计划的目标是为学术界，工业或私营部门和政府的科学事业准备有前途的早期职业博士级科学家。SPRF的奖励包括在知名科学家的赞助下进行两年的培训，并鼓励博士后研究员进行独立研究。NSF致力于促进来自科学界各部门的科学家，包括来自代表性不足的群体的科学家参与其研究计划和活动;博士后期间被认为是实现这一目标的专业发展的重要水平。每个博士后研究员必须解决推进各自学科领域的重要科学问题。在哈佛大学的Lawrence Bobo博士和亚利桑那州立大学的Tricia Redeker-Hepner和石楠Smith-Cannoy博士的赞助下，该博士后奖学金支持一位早期职业科学家调查区域警察部门和非营利组织的社会倡议中的知识生产的社会条件。在过去的几十年里，工作场所项目越来越受欢迎，有望产生更有利的制度成果。然而，一些学者批评这些努力为结构性问题提供了单独的解决方案，我们对参与者如何回应这些举措以及他们的回应如何挑战正在进行的问题知之甚少。拟议的研究将通过对两个不同机构的社会倡议进行比较、多地点人种学分析来解决这些问题。对系统性问题如何在这些背景下持续存在的民族志理解有可能改善结果。这项研究的目的是促进理论和公众对工作场所内知识的社会决定因素的理解。该项目旨在通过收集人种学数据，包括工作场所培训的观察，项目文件的分析，以及与培训师，员工和招聘和培训经理的半结构化访谈，从多个地区警察部门和非营利组织。这项研究将询问各种概念化如何有助于参与者的招募，以及它们如何在机构之间进行比较;如何管理挑战;以及培训师和员工如何协商参与。它将建立在不断增加的社会科学努力的基础上，以审查集体知识生产的条件，从而为知识的社会决定因素与结构性成果之间的关系提供新的见解。此外，该项目的比较框架将有助于从理论上说明各机构的系统性问题如何不同，以及统一的政策如何不能在不同类型的组织中得到体现。通过这些贡献，本研究旨在丰富公众和学术界关于如何最好地促进工作场所更有利的结构性成果的对话。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。