Democracy, Demography, and Social Movements in the Northwestern United States

美国西北部的民主、人口和社会运动

• 批准号: 2215186
• 负责人: Sophie Bjork-James
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Vanderbilt University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-07-15 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2215186&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Democracy; Demography; Social; Movements; Northwestern

Social scientists have struggled with understanding how societies navigate transitions from a single-dominant ethnic group to a multiracial democracy. The United States provides an opportunity for improving our understanding this larger phenomenon, as current racial minorities are projected to become a majority of the population by 2042. Sustainable democracies depend on civic participation and community engagement. This research explores what variables contribute to the perceived vitality and effectiveness of civic participation. The project contributes to undergraduate and graduate student training in science and the research findings are being made accessible to a larger audience through non-academic channels, thereby improving the public’s understanding of science and the scientific method.Through interviews and participant observation, this project investigates a forty-year history of community-based social movements in the northwestern United States to analyze and generalize what resources and networks are marshaled by advocates of multi-racial democracy to promote civic engagement and support. Methods include interviews, participant observation among democracy advocates, and the textual analysis of archival data across rural and urban sites in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. Through a multi-sited investigation of urban, rural, and small-town contexts, along with integrating data from different time scales, it asks what contributes to variability in demographic change and the sustainability of democracy. The research improves social scientific understanding of the drivers of civic participation, and the contributions that it makes to ensuring sustainable democracy. This project also explores what role religion plays in these 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.

社会科学家一直在努力理解社会如何从单一主导的民族群体过渡到多种族民主。美国提供了一个机会，以提高我们对这一更大现象的理解，因为目前的少数民族预计将在2042年成为人口的大多数。可持续的民主取决于公民参与和社区参与。本研究探讨了哪些变量有助于感知公民参与的活力和有效性。该项目有助于本科生和研究生的科学培训，并通过非学术渠道向更多的受众提供研究成果，从而提高公众对科学和科学方法的理解。通过访谈和参与观察，这个项目调查了一个40年的社区历史，基于美国西北部的社会运动，以分析和概括多种族民主的倡导者为促进公民参与和支持而组织的资源和网络。方法包括访谈，民主倡导者之间的参与观察，并在美国太平洋西北部的农村和城市网站的档案数据的文本分析，通过多站点的城市，农村和小城镇的背景下，沿着从不同的时间尺度整合数据，它问什么有助于在人口变化和民主的可持续性的变化。这项研究提高了对公民参与驱动因素的社会科学认识，以及它对确保可持续民主的贡献。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，被认为值得支持。