Does reliance on kin erode with market integration? A social network perspective

对亲属的依赖会随着市场一体化而减弱吗？

• 批准号: 2215559
• 负责人: Siobhán Mattison
• 金额: $ 3.03万
• 依托单位: University of New Mexico
• 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: 2022-08-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2215559&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Does; reliance; kin; erode; market

Kinship has been the basis of social structure for most of human history whereas it plays a more variable role in organizing contemporary societies. Across settings, kinship plays a fundamental role in regulating access to material and economic resources, inspiring long-held interest across the social sciences in explaining the feedback between social and economic systems. Market integration is a process that involves a transition from subsistence-oriented lifestyles to ones based more heavily on market-oriented consumption and production. This project investigates the effects of market integration on social structure, specifically focusing on variation in the density of kin in social support networks. The project trains an anthropological graduate student in empirical, scientific data collection and analysis in cultural anthropology. Additionally, the project promotes public understanding of the science of human sociality by broad sharing of findings through publications, collaborative galleries, and lectures in academic and non-academic venues.The core hypothesis tested in this research is that kinship ties in personal networks erode under increasing levels of market integration. The research uses a hybrid theoretical framework, inspired by evolutionary cultural anthropology, and mixed qualitative and quantitative methods to understand how market-integration-related activities affect social support networks among kin and non-kin in a society that is transitioning from an agricultural base to one more strongly rooted in regional markets. The research includes a year-long ethnographic study involving social network interviews, community mapping, semi-structured interviews, socio-demographic questionnaires, and anthropometric assessments to obtain data that links economic, social, and health variables in contexts with varying degrees of market engagement. These systematically collected data will enrich the understanding of when, how, and why kinship relationships may break down and what consequences this has on social relationships and welfare.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.

亲属关系一直是人类历史上大多数社会结构的基础，而它在组织当代社会中起着更可变的作用。在整个环境中，亲属关系在规范获得物质和经济资源方面发挥了基本作用，激发了整个社会科学的长期利益，以解释社会和经济体系之间的反馈。市场整合是一个过程，涉及从面向生存的生活方式过渡到基于市场为导向的消费和生产的人们的过渡。该项目研究了市场一体化对社会结构的影响，特别是关注社会支持网络中亲属密度的变化。该项目培训了人类学，科学数据收集和文化人类学分析的人类学研究生。此外，该项目通过通过出版物，协作画廊和学术和非学术场所的演讲来广泛分享发现的广泛分享，从而促进了公众对人类社会性的理解。这项研究中所检验的核心假设是，个人网络中的亲属关系侵蚀了越来越多的市场整合水平。该研究使用了一个混合理论框架，灵感来自进化文化人类学的启发，以及混合的定性和定量方法，了解与市场融合相关的活动如何影响社会和非金属之间的社会支持网络，这些社会正在从一个从农业基础过渡到一个在区域市场中更强大的社会。这项研究包括一项为期一年的民族志研究，涉及社交网络访谈，社区制图，半结构化访谈，社会人口统计学问卷以及人体测量评估，以获取将经济，社会和健康变量与市场参与度不同的环境联系起来的数据。这些有系统收集的数据将丰富对何时，如何以及为什么亲属关系可能会破裂的理解，以及这对社会关系和福利的影响。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并认为值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准通过评估来获得支持。