Doctoral Dissertation Research: Social Networks and Women's Development Institution in Rural Ghana

Sbr-9506062本学位论文改进奖为学生提供实地设备、旅行和语言培训资金，用于研究加纳妇女自1980年代初以来发展和使用社交网络(特别是为创业提供资金)的情况。实地工作(1995年11月至1996年10月)将涉及在加纳中部地区的两个村庄收集主要的人种学数据，方法是对参与两种不同创业活动的100名家庭和社会经济背景不同的妇女进行调查，以及对10名妇女的妇女协会和生活史发展进行参与观察。人种学研究将通过档案数据收集和与发展项目管理人员的面谈来补充。该项目潜在的理论和实践贡献在于它侧重于妇女在家庭之外的作用以及妇女在依赖社会网络的发展活动中的作用。

SBR-9506062 This dissertation-improvement award provides funds for field equipment, travel, and language training for the Student's research into Ghanaian women's development and use of social networks (particularly for financing entrepreneurial ventures) since the early 1980s. Fieldwork (November 1995 through October 1996) will involve primary ethnographic data collection in two villages in Ghana's Central Region, via a survey of 100 women of varying family and socio-economic backgrounds, involved in two different entrepreneurial activities, as well as participant observation in women's associations and life-history development for ten women. The ethnographic research will be complemented by archival data gathering and interviews with development-project administrators. The project's potential theoretical and practical contributions lie in its focus on the role of women outside the household and the role of women in development activities that rely on social networks.