Doctoral Dissertation Research: Educational Transitions in the Physical Sciences and Engineering among Women and Minorities

这是在提高博士论文研究计划下的一个奖项。这是一项对妇女和少数民族在物理科学和工程方面的教育转变的研究，遵循生命历程的观点。其中一个数据集将是一项现有的年轻人纵向调查，名为“高中及以后”，该调查追踪了上世纪80年代每两年接受一次采访的6万名高中生的生活史。另一个数据集将由目前的研究人员从一所大型工程学院的新生样本中收集，并将允许对影响工程职业的社会心理因素进行更深入的研究。这项研究将有助于科学社会学、性别社会学、少数民族社会学和职业社会学的研究，也将为制定有关科学和工程劳动力的公共政策提供重要信息。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。因此，它有助于未来的科学人才和下一代社会学家的全面培养。

This is an award under the Grants for Improving Doctoral Dissertation Research program. It is a study of educational transitions in the physical sciences and engineering among women and minorities, following a life course perspective. One dataset will be an existing longitudinal survey of young people, called High School and Beyond, which tracks the life histories of 60,000 high school students interviewed at two year intervals throughout the 1980s. Another dataset will be assembled by the present investigators from a sample of entering students in a large school of engineering, and will permit closer examination of social- psychological factors that shape careers in engineering. This study will contribute to the sociology of science, gender, minorities, and careers, and it will also provide important information for deciding public policy concerning the scientific and engineering workforce. 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 future scientific manpower and the thorough training of the next generation of sociologists.