Summer Institute for Research Design in Cultural Anthropology

该奖项支持一个为文化人类学研究生开设的研究方法和项目设计暑期学院。专业的社会科学方法学家将在为期三周的密集课程中教授15名研究生，这些研究生是从美国各地的博士项目中经过竞争性选拔出来的。课程内容将包括：理论与研究目标、概念、定义、变量、测量和假设之间的关系；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；统计分布和基本数据分析。重点将放在研究设计的概念，定性和定量背景下的数据管理，以及假设检验的策略。人类学研究本质上是跨学科的，并结合了各种各样的研究方法。该项目补充了学生在其所在部门接受的培训，迄今已培训了来自58个不同机构的204多名学生。这种训练增加了学生做重要的论文研究项目的能力，并成为更熟练的专业社会科学家。

This award supports a summer institute in research methods and project design for cultural anthropology graduate students. Expert social science methodologists will teach a set of 15 graduate students, chosen competitively from doctoral programs throughout the United States, in an intensive three week course. Course content will include: the relationship between theory and 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 of research design, data management in both qualitative and quantitative contexts, and strategies of hypothesis testing. Anthropological research is inherently interdisciplinary and incorporates a wide variety of research methods. This program, which supplements the training students receive in their home departments, has trained over 204 students from 58 different institutions to date. This training increases the competence of students to do significant dissertation research projects and to become more proficient professional social scientists.