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The Research Centre for Micro-Social Change (MiSoC): Understanding individual and family behaviours in a new era of uncertainty and change

微观社会变革研究中心（MiSoC）：在充满不确定性和变革的新时代理解个人和家庭行为

基本信息

批准号：
ES/L009153/1
负责人：
Mike Brewer
金额：
$ 577.53万
依托单位：
University of Essex
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2014
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2014 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FL009153%2F1
关键词：
Research Centre Micro Social Change

项目摘要

Changes to our society are being driven by both long-term social and economic trends, and the impacts of recession and austerity. Five social trends drive the new research programme of the Research Centre on Micro-Social Change (MiSoC): i) new features of the job market that are changing the fortunes of different groups of people; ii) changing family set-up and relationships; iii) reform of and cut-backs in the provision of housing, education, health, and benefits; iv) breaking down of social and political beliefs, and increasing ethnic and religious diversity; v) changes in our values to be more accepting of personal freedom and more tolerant of inequality. Of course, modern societies are always changing, but the next decade poses new challenges. Recession, austerity and the patchy nature of the recovery mean things looks bleak for many. Ties between family, friends and neighbours, weakening as the UK grew richer and as individuals became more mobile, have been put under further stress by hard times. Our new research programme aims to point to ways in which society can continue to integrate people with diverse backgrounds, preferences and abilities. The research will be led by a team of experts at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex, with collaborators across the UK and in other countries, and will be directed jointly by Mike Brewer, Professor of Economics and David Voas, Professor of Population Studies. Our work covers three main areas: The first area examines how individuals and families are affected by and react to changes in their life circumstances, including shocks to their health, disability, income and living arrangements. Our researchers will pay special attention to the way that new welfare systems, such as changes to benefits, protect households. We will be making a major contribution to important debates on poverty by advancing new ways of measuring poverty, and with new evidence on the dynamics of poverty. The second investigates how new members of society - children, young people and new migrants -develop and are integrated into it. We will analyse how parents, school, peers and society interact to influence the development of children's mental, social and physical skills, and the long-term consequences of childhood disadvantage. We will also look at how some people get more out of gaining a university degree than others. We will provide new evidence on the integration of ethnic minorities, and how this varies across individuals. We will look at the experience of new migrants, and how characteristics and behaviours are passed between generations in migrant families. The third area of research investigates how values, attitudes, expectations, tastes or preferences and identity are formed, and how they are linked to our education, employment and family set-up. A better understanding of this will help policy-makers come up with the best policies to help more people live successful, happy lives.How we research the important issues facing society today is just as important as the research itself, so our integrated programme of methodological work will help researchers to better examine the impact of specific policies, and to advise on new ways to handle the sometimes incomplete information which comes from survey data they are using in their research.We expect this programme of research to benefit a wide range of organisations involved in policy debates, policy design and practice, in a range of domains, located in the UK and other countries, and provide evidence informing key policy choices, such as the balance between intervening late or early in children's lives, the role of family and wider society in an individual's development, the choice between universal or targeted support or safety nets for the vulnerable, and the relative roles of values, expectations and preferences versus structure in determining how we act.

我们社会的变化是由长期社会和经济趋势以及衰退和紧缩的影响推动的。五种社会趋势推动了微观社会变革研究中心（MiSoC）的新研究项目：i）就业市场的新特征正在改变不同人群的命运； ii) 改变家庭结构和关系； iii) 住房、教育、卫生和福利的改革和削减； iv) 社会和政治信仰的瓦解，以及种族和宗教多样性的增加； v) 改变我们的价值观，更加接受个人自由，更加容忍不平等。当然，现代社会总是在变化，但未来十年会带来新的挑战。经济衰退、紧缩政策和复苏的参差不齐意味着许多人的情况看起来很黯淡。随着英国变得更加富裕和个人流动性越来越强，家庭、朋友和邻居之间的关系逐渐减弱，并且在困难时期受到进一步的压力。我们的新研究项目旨在指出社会如何继续融合具有不同背景、偏好和能力的人们。该研究将由埃塞克斯大学社会与经济研究所 (ISER) 的专家团队领导，与英国和其他国家的合作者合作，并由经济学教授迈克·布鲁尔 (Mike Brewer) 和人口研究教授大卫·沃斯 (David Voas) 共同指导。我们的工作涵盖三个主要领域：第一个领域研究个人和家庭如何受到生活环境变化的影响并做出反应，包括对其健康、残疾、收入和生活安排的冲击。我们的研究人员将特别关注新福利制度（例如福利变化）保护家庭的方式。我们将通过提出衡量贫困的新方法以及关于贫困动态的新证据，为有关贫困的重要辩论做出重大贡献。第二部分调查社会新成员——儿童、青少年和新移民——如何发展并融入社会。我们将分析父母、学校、同龄人和社会如何相互作用来影响儿童的心理、社交和身体技能的发展，以及儿童劣势的长期后果。我们还将研究一些人如何从获得大学学位中获得比其他人更多的收益。我们将提供有关少数民族融合的新证据，以及这种融合如何因人而异。我们将关注新移民的经历，以及移民家庭的特征和行为如何在代际间传递。第三个研究领域调查价值观、态度、期望、品味或偏好和身份是如何形成的，以及它们如何与我们的教育、就业和家庭结构联系起来。更好地理解这一点将有助于政策制定者制定最佳政策，帮助更多的人过上成功、幸福的生活。我们如何研究当今社会面临的重要问题与研究本身一样重要，因此我们的方法论工作综合计划将帮助研究人员更好地研究特定政策的影响，并就处理他们在研究中使用的调查数据中有时不完整的信息提供新方法建议。我们预计该研究计划将使参与政策的广泛组织受益英国和其他国家在一系列领域的辩论、政策设计和实践，并提供关键政策选择的证据，例如对儿童生活的晚期或早期干预之间的平衡，家庭和更广泛的社会在个人发展中的作用，对弱势群体的普遍或有针对性的支持或安全网的选择，以及价值观、期望和偏好与结构在决定我们如何行动方面的相对作用。