Doctoral Dissertation Research: Faith-Based Community Development as Social Movement Phenomena

近年来，为应对公共服务的变化，基于信仰的社区发展组织越来越多地提供就业培训、低收入住房和小企业贷款等社会服务。虽然很少有人研究，但这些组织采取合作集体行动或社会运动的形式。该项目借鉴了组织和集体行动理论，以了解基于信仰的社区发展的出现和结果。在这样做的过程中，它评估了关于这些组织中官僚结构随着年龄和规模的增长而增长的假设，以及组织在其“行动框架”中越来越相似的情况。在三个基于信仰的社区发展组织中的实地工作，包括对组织领导人的访谈，组织文件的审查，以及对会议和活动的观察，为评估理论和假设提供了数据。这些结果有助于理解一场日益重要的社会运动，而文学在很大程度上忽视了这一运动。

In response to changes in public services in recent years, faith-based community development organizations have increasingly provided social services such as job training, low-income housing, and small business loans. Although rarely studied, these organizations take the form of cooperative collective action or social movements. This projects draws from organizational and collective action theories to understand the emergence and outcomes of faith-based community development. In so doing, it evaluates hypotheses concerning the growth of bureaucratic structures in these organizations as they grow older and larger, and the growing similarity of organizations in their "action frames." Field work in three faith-based community development organizations, including interviews with organizational leaders, examination of organizational documents, and observations of meetings and activities, provides the data to evaluate the theories and hypotheses. The results help understand an increasingly important social movement that the literature has largely ignored.