Niches and Networks Among Voluntary Groups

志愿团体之间的利基和网络

• 批准号: 8821365
• 负责人: Joseph McPherson
• 金额: $ 14.08万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1989
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1989-04-01 至 1990-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8821365&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Niches; Networks; Among; Voluntary; Groups

The growth and decline of voluntary associations is a contemporary social issue of great concern; yet understanding the reasons for the viability of such associations is a classic concern of sociological theory and research. This investigator proposes to replicate an earlier survey of voluntary associations and their memberships with significant extensions and improvements beyond earlier NSF funded data collection and analysis. He is viewed as one of the most creative and skilled sociologists in the field of complex organization. The present proposal is a rich blend of several theoretical perspectives on organizations, including ecological models of the competition among voluntary associations and of their growth and decline, and an attractive set of planned statistical analyses appropriate to the kind of data to be collected. The results should further the PIs own cumulative development of a dynamic theory of the growth and decline of voluntary associations.

自愿协会的增长和下降是一个非常关注的当代社会问题。然而，了解这种关联的生存能力的原因是社会学理论和研究的经典关注点。该研究者建议复制对自愿关联及其成员资格的早期调查，其扩展和改进以外的早期NSF资助的数据收集和分析。他被视为复杂组织领域中最具创造力，最熟练的社会学家之一。目前的提案是关于组织的几种理论观点的丰富融合，包括自愿协会之间竞争的生态模型及其成长和下降，以及一套有吸引力的计划统计分析，适合于收集的数据。结果应进一步发展自愿关联的生长和下降的动态理论的PI自身累积发展。