Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: The Sectarian Gift: Piety, Clientalism, and Changing Practices of Giving in Lebanon

斯坦福大学博士生Jenna Rice将在Sylvia J. Yanagisako博士的指导下研究全球化与当地慈善捐赠做法之间的关系。在过去三十年中，慈善基金会在全球范围内显著增长，这些基金会是由全球经济和政治进程塑造的。但在地方一级，捐赠也受到社会结构、社区认同和对公民责任的理解的影响。这项研究将探讨当地密切相关的规定性压力，人们可能会觉得给宗教和政治原因，慈善，慈善事业和国际金融的国际话语之间的接口。这项研究将在西顿，黎巴嫩进行。黎巴嫩是进行这项研究的适当地点，因为教派慈善基金会越来越多地负责提供基本社会服务。这种出于政治和宗教动机的宗派慈善机构的扩张将被比作长期标准的邻里捐赠做法。研究方法将包括档案研究;对按成员年龄和世代分层的家庭抽样进行深入观察;半结构化访谈;这一研究是重要的，因为它有助于社会科学理论之间的关系，国际政治和经济力量和地方宗派的资源过程通过慈善捐赠进行汇集和再分配。资助这项研究也支持社会科学家的教育。

Stanford University doctoral student Jenna Rice, with direction from Dr. Sylvia J. Yanagisako, will undertake research on the relationship between globalization and local practices of charitable giving. Over the past three decades, there has been a significant worldwide growth of philanthropic foundations, which are shaped by global economic and political processes. But at the local level, giving is also affected by particulars of social structure, community identity, and understandings of civic responsibility. This research will examine the interface between the locally germane prescriptive pressure people may feel to give for religious and political reasons, and international discourses of charity, philanthropy, and international finance.The research will be carried out in Sidon, Lebanon. Lebanon is an appropriate site for this research because sectarian charitable foundations have become increasingly responsible for the provisioning of basic social services. This expansion of politically and religiously motivated sectarian charities will be compared to long-standard neighborhood practices of giving. Research methods will include archival research; intensive observation of a sample of households, stratified by members' age and generation; semi-structured interviews; and media and discourse analysis of the representation and treatment of poverty and charity in popular media.This research is important because it contributes to social science theory of the relationship between international political and economic forces and local sectarian processes of resource pooling and reallocation through charitable giving. Funding this research also supports the education of a social scientist.