US-Egypt Workshop: Explaining the Worldviews of the Islamic Publics: Theoretical and Methodological Issues, Cairo, Egypt, December 2002

该奖项旨在支持将于2002年12月在埃及开罗举行的“解释伊斯兰公众的世界观：理论和方法问题”的美国-埃及研讨会。组织者是密歇根州伊普斯兰蒂市东密歇根大学社会学、人类学和犯罪学系教授Mansoor Moaddel博士。协办人是埃及开罗艾因沙姆斯大学社会学教授Abdel-Hamid Abdel-Latif博士。这次会议将汇集来自美国和伊斯兰国家的社会科学家，他们曾参与对阿尔及利亚、埃及、印度尼西亚、伊朗、约旦、摩洛哥和巴基斯坦的伊斯兰公众的态度和价值取向进行全国性调查。这是第一次在几个主要的伊斯兰国家进行全面的比较调查，产生了一个重要的社会学数据集。这些调查中使用的问卷是基于世界价值观调查问卷的关键部分，以及专门为伊斯兰国家设计的一系列项目。为了推进伊斯兰社会的基本知识，参与者将以集体的方式解决几个方法和理论问题。其中包括比较问卷的不同翻译，评估研究中使用的最终抽样框架，以及分析不同文化和政治背景下的调查结果。范围：这次会议通过加强社会科学家之间的网络来扩大对伊斯兰社会的社会科学理解的基础，这些网络是由比较调查产生的。它所涉及的话题是当前在美国和伊斯兰国家的重要性。该项目由国际科学与工程办公室和社会与经济科学司共同资助。

0217716MoaddelDescription: This award is to support a US-Egypt Workshop on Explaining the Worldviews of the Islamic Publics: Theoretical and Methodological Issues, to be held in Cairo, Egypt, December 2002. The organizer is Dr. Mansoor Moaddel, Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan. The co-organizer is Dr. Abdel-Hamid Abdel-Latif, Professor of Sociology, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. This meeting will bring together the social scientists from the United States and Islamic countries who were involved in carrying out national surveys of the attitudes and value orientations of the Islamic publics in Algeria, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Jordan, Morocco, and Pakistan. This is the first time that comprehensive comparative surveys have been carried out in several major Islamic countries, generating a sociologically important data set. The questionnaire used in these surveys was based on key batteries of the World Values Survey questionnaire, as well as a series of items that were specifically designed for Islamic countries. To advance the fundamental knowledge of Islamic societies, the participants will address in a collective fashion several methodological and theoretical concerns. These include comparison of different translations of the questionnaire, an assessment of the final sampling frame used in the study, and an analysis of the findings within varying cultural and political contexts. Scope: This meeting expands the basis of social science understanding of Islamic societies by strengthening the network among social scientists that the comparative survey has generated. It deals with a topic that is of current importance in the United States and in the Islamic countries. The project is funded jointly by the Office of International Science and Engineering and the Division of Social and Economic Sciences.