The Structure of Cognitive Minorities: Evangelicals in Leipzig and Unitarians in Dallas

认知少数派的结构：莱比锡的福音派和达拉斯的一神论者

• 批准号: 326140577
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Silke Steets
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Soziologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-31 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/326140577?language=en
• 关键词: Structure; Cognitive; Minorities; Evangelicals; Leipzig

The objective of this research project is to ascertain - by means of a comparative analysis of 'cognitive minorities' - how people maintain a view of the world that deviates significantly from the one generally taken for granted in their social environment. Using a complementary research design I aim to reconstruct how a distinctive group of religious believers (Evangelical Protestants) in a strongly secular city (Leipzig) defines its reality and how this is done by a group of skeptics and seekers (Unitarians) in a city characterized by evangelical spirituality (Dallas). Adopting a theoretical perspective based on the sociology of knowledge, I assume that definitions of reality are constructed and maintained through permanent interaction between the subjective level of consciousness and the objective level of institutions and shared structures of meaning. For investigating this interaction an ethnographic research design with a Grounded Theory methodology is chosen that combines participant observation with ethnographic interviews. Following up current debates in the sociology of religion, the project is intended, first of all, to make an empirically-based micro-sociological contribution to evaluate the relationship of city, religion and modern society and in this way, secondly, to contribute to the further conceptual development of new approaches to research on the sociology of religion.

这个研究项目的目的是通过对“认知少数群体”的比较分析，确定人们是如何保持一种与他们的社会环境中普遍认为理所当然的世界观明显偏离的观点的。使用一个互补的研究设计，我的目标是重建一个强烈世俗城市（莱比锡）中一个独特的宗教信徒群体（福音派新教徒）如何定义其现实，以及在一个以福音派灵性为特征的城市（达拉斯）中，一群怀疑论者和寻求者（一神论者）如何做到这一点。我采用基于知识社会学的理论视角，假设现实的定义是通过意识的主观层面和制度的客观层面以及共享的意义结构之间的永久互动来构建和维持的。为了调查这种相互作用，选择了一种基于扎根理论的民族志研究设计，将参与者观察与民族志访谈相结合。在宗教社会学研究的基础上，本研究的目的首先是在微观社会学的基础上对城市、宗教和现代社会的关系进行实证研究；其次，为宗教社会学研究的新方法的进一步概念发展做出贡献。