RCN: Social Observatories Coordinating Network (SOCN)

该奖项支持社会观测站协调网络（SOCN）的运作，这是一个研究协调网络，将与社会，行为和经济（SBE）科学界的广泛学者合作，开发和规划一系列将改变SBE科学的观测站。 该网络的主要目标是继续探索关于社会观察站网络的潜在形式和运作的想法，并积极吸引SBE研究界的个人和团体参与这一进程。 SOCN将与学科和跨学科团体合作，以确保他们有助于这些拟议的观测站的设计，并确保观测站可能追求的科学问题对基础研究和广泛的实际用途具有价值。 海洋观测网络将广泛传播报告和其他调查结果，并将促进学者之间的互动，特别是在国家专业会议和其他科学会议上，该网络将促进审议和发展一套预期具有变革意义的观测站，为数据收集、数据存档和数据分发提供一个新的平台;先进的网络基础设施，为真正的跨学科SBE科学企业;新的方法来培养学生;和一个焦点的综合和教师合作围绕国家重要性的问题。 一套协调的社会观测站预计将增加新的能力，为SBE科学转移到细粒度和基于地方的研究，解决地方，区域和国家的关注。 这些观测站将通过实验、人种学、空间明确数据、行政和社交媒体数据来促进对个人决策的理解，这些数据在所有地点结合起来时将具有全国代表性。 通过努力促进对社会观察站的考虑，SOCN将推动对关键新思想的讨论，并推动跨SBE科学的跨学科交流与合作。

This award supports the operations of the Social Observatories Coordinating Network (SOCN), a research coordination network that will work with a broad cross-section of scholars in the social, behavioral, and economic (SBE) scientific communities in the development and planning of a set of observatories that will transform SBE science. The major objectives of the network are to continue exploration of ideas regarding the potential form and functioning of a network of social observatories and to actively engage individuals and groups across the SBE research community in this process. SOCN will work with disciplinary and interdisciplinary groups to ensure that they contribute to the design of these proposed observatories and that the scientific questions the observatories might pursue will have value for basic research and for a broad range of practical uses. SOCN will widely dissemination reports and other findings, and it will facilitate interactions among scholars, particularly at national professional meetings and other scientific conferences.The network will facilitate the consideration and development of what is expected to be a transformative set of observatories that would provide a new platform for data collection, data archiving, and data distribution; advanced cyberinfrastructure for a truly interdisciplinary SBE scientific enterprise; new approaches to training of students; and a focal point for synthesis and faculty collaboration around questions of national importance. A coordinated suite of social observatories is expected to add new capabilities for SBE sciences by moving to fine-grained and place-based studies that address local, regional, and national concerns. The observatories will advance understanding of individual decision making via experiments, ethnography, spatially explicit data, administrative, and social media data that, when combined over all sites, will be nationally representative. Through its efforts to facilitate consideration of social observatories, SOCN will advance the discussion of critical new ideas and advance interdisciplinary communication and collaboration across the SBE sciences.