Dissertation Research: A Multi-Threaded Approach to Processes of Change and Development: Social Restructuring, Consumption and the Construction of Place and Meaning

华盛顿大学 博士论文的研究将探讨在20世纪90年代的太平洋西北地区的部分地区的非大都市经济和人口变化的起源和特点。 该项目将寻求更深入地了解变化过程中的主要力量，并依赖于有关重组过程，消费，意识形态和身份以及自然和地方的社会建设的理论。 该方法包括三个阶段：横截面分析，邮件调查和个案研究与访谈。 这项研究将有助于更好地了解结构调整的形式，以及社会和经济结构调整如何与景观从生产性用途到消费性用途的变化以及自然和农村的不同社会结构相联系。

Debra R Ohman University of Washington The doctoral dissertation research will examine the origins and character of non-metropolitan economic and population change in parts of the Pacific Northwest during the 1990s. The project will seek to obtain a deeper understanding of major forces in the change process and relies on theory regarding the restructuring process, consumption, ideology and identity, and the social construction of nature and place. The methodology consists of three phases: cross-sectional analysis, mail surveys and case studies with interviews. The research will contribute to a better understanding of the shape of restructuring and how social and economic restructuring are connected to a change from productive to consumptive uses of the landscape and different social constructions of nature and rural.