Conference on Cross-Cultural and Comparative Research, New Haven, Connecticut, March, 1988

该奖项授予位于康涅狄格州纽黑文的非营利研究机构“人际关系领域档案”。它专门从事跨文化研究，将资助一个大型会议来评估过去，现在和未来的跨文化和比较研究。这一研究传统的25位主要学者将聚集在一起，评估已经取得的成就，评估不同研究传统的优势和弱点，制定进一步文化比较研究的议程，并通过让持不同观点的研究人员参与合作论文来解决比较研究人员之间的分歧。会议将在一份主要期刊上发表会议纪要，以及一本书长度的会议论文手稿。这项研究很重要，因为解释人类社会和文化的异同对于我们理解自己是人类至关重要。这次会议应该对这一研究传统的最新进展进行评估，并为未来的研究方向开出处方。人类关系领域档案是跨文化研究材料的主要储存库，是主办和组织会议的适当组织。

This award to the Human Relations Area Files, a not-for-profit research institute in New Haven, CT. which specializes in cross- cultural research, will fund a major conference to assess the past, present and future of cross-cultural and comparative research. Twenty-five leading scholars in this research tradition will gather to assess what has been accomplished, to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of varying research traditions, to develop agendas for furthering the comparative study of culture, and to resolve disagreements among comparative researchers by involving researchers with different viewpoints in collaborative papers. The conference will produce a summary of the proceedings in a major journal, and a book-length manuscript consisting of the conference papers. This research is important because the explanation of the similarities and differences in human society and culture is critical to our understanding of ourselves as human beings. This conference should produce an evaluation of the state-of-the-art in this research tradition, with prescriptions for future directions for research. The Human Relations Area Files is the leading repository of cross-cultural research materials, and is the appropriate organization to host and organize the conference.