Doctoral Dissertation Research in Sociology

这是在提高博士论文研究计划下的一个奖项。这是对哥伦比亚非正规部门工人的工作条件与个性发展之间关系的研究。调查和密集访谈都将在该国进行，以检验梅尔文·科恩关于社会结构和人格之间关系的理论是否在发达的工业化社会中得到发展和检验，在适用于发展中社会的非正式部门时需要加以修改。这项研究将建立在一个既定的研究传统上，即工作场所的条件如何影响员工的价值观和个性。通过在发展中社会哥伦比亚检验这些想法，这项研究将有助于确定现有理论是否具有普遍性，还是只能适用于某一特定类型的社会。除了研究取得的科学成果外，该奖项还将极大地帮助极有前途的学生完成博士论文的研究。从而有助于培养国家未来的科学人才和培养下一代社会学家。

This is an award under the Grants for Improving Doctoral Dissertation Research program. It is a study of the relationship between working conditions and personality development among informal sector workers in Colombia. Both surveys and intensive interviews will be conducted in that country to test whether Melvin Kohn's theories about the relationship between social structure and personality, developed and tested previously only in advanced industrialized societies, need to be modified when applied to the informal sector of a developing society. This research will build upon a well-established tradition of research on the way in which the conditions in the workplace affect the values and personalities of employees. By testing these ideas in a developing society, Colombia, this research will contribute to the effort to determine whether existing theories are universal or can only be applied in a particular kind of society. In addition to the scientific gains to be achieved by the research, this award will materially assist a highly promising student in completing research for the Ph.D. dissertation. Thus it contributes to the future scientific manpower of the nation and the thorough training of the next generation of sociologists.