Summer Institute for Research Design in Cultural Anthropology

文化人类学家在他们的民族志研究过程中使用大量的理论和方法方法。这种折衷主义往往掩盖了优秀研究背后的共同要素。这个项目支持一个文化人类学研究设计的暑期研究所。研究设计和数据与理论联系方面的专家将在为期三周的时间里，从美国各地的博士项目中挑选出15名研究生进行授课。课程内容将涵盖广泛的问题，重点是理论与研究目标、概念、定义、变量、测量和假设的发展之间的联系；民族志背景下定量与定性研究方法的关系系统的数据收集程序；概率和非概率抽样；统计分布与基本数据分析。重点将放在概念（例如，抽样理论），研究设计，定性和定量背景下的数据管理，以及假设检验的策略。更广泛的影响涉及研究生的培训，他们可能没有在他们的部门得到充分的接触这些问题，在科学人类学的研究概念和技术。这次研讨会的结果应该是提高学生做重要的论文研究项目的能力，并成为更熟练的社会科学家。

Cultural anthropologists use a large repertoire of theoretical and methodological approaches in the course of their ethnographic studies. This eclecticism often obscures the common elements underlying good research. This project supports a summer institute in research design in cultural anthropology. Experts in research design and in the link between data and theory will teach a set of 15 graduate students, chosen competitively from Ph.D. programs throughout the US, during a period of 3 weeks. Course content will cover a broad spectrum of issues focusing on the link between theory and the development of research objectives, concepts, definitions, variables, measures and hypotheses; the relationship between quantitative and qualitative approaches in the ethnographic context; systematic data collection procedures; probability and non-probability sampling; statistical distributions and elementary data analysis. . The emphasis will be on concepts (e.g., sampling theory), research design, data management in both a qualitative and quantitative context, and strategies of hypothesis testing. The broader impacts relate to the training of graduate students, who may not be receiving an adequate exposure to these issues in their department, on research concepts and techniques in scientific anthropology. The results of this workshop should be to increase the competence of students to do significant dissertation research projects and to become more proficient social scientists in general.