Doctoral Dissertation Research: Social Structure and Personality in Transitional Urban China

博士论文研究：转型时期中国城市的社会结构与人格

• 批准号: 0326830
• 负责人: Melvin Kohn
• 金额: $ 0.75万
• 依托单位: Johns Hopkins University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-08-01 至 2005-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0326830&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Social; Structure

The proposed research will examine the relationship between social structure and individual personality through the linkage of occupational self-direction in urban China in transition. The interplay of market institution and institutional legacy of the socialist planned economy indicates a transitional process different from the path of radical social change in the former Soviet and East European societies. The relationship between social structure and personality in transitional China may be quite different from that in fully capitalist societies, in socialist societies, and even in the transitional societies of the former Soviet Union and East Europe. The research will be conducted in Shanghai, the largest industrial city in China. It will employ a three-stage random sampling strategy to collect primary survey data. A sample of 500 registered residents of the city proper who are in the labor force at the time of survey will be yielded. A pretest will be conducted before the actual survey to warrant linguistically and culturally valid questions to be included in the interview schedule. The actual survey will be conducted in the form of face-to-face interviews. Using rigorous confirmatory factor analysis and structural-equation modeling, the proposed research will be the first study of the relationship between social structure and individual personality in China. The broader impact of this research lies in its potential to bridge the gap in research on China between the study of social structure by sociologists and the study of personality by psychologists. It will provide important information for social policy, helping to rectify a paucity of knowledge about the psychological consequences of ongoing transition in urban China.

拟议的研究将通过在过渡中城市中国的职业自我指导的联系来研究社会结构与个人个性之间的关系。 社会主义计划经济的市场机构和制度遗产的相互作用表明，过渡过程与前苏联和东欧社会的激进社会变革路径不同。 过渡中国的社会结构与人格之间的关系可能与完全资本主义社会，社会主义社会，甚至在前苏联和东欧的过渡社会中的关系。 该研究将在中国最大的工业城市上海进行。 它将采用三阶段的随机抽样策略来收集主要的调查数据。 在调查时，将在劳动力中有500名城市居民的注册居民样本。 在实际调查之前将进行预测试，以保证在面试时间表中包含在语言和文化上有效的问题。 实际调查将以面对面的访谈的形式进行。 使用严格的验证性因素分析和结构方程建模，拟议的研究将是对中国社会结构与个人个性之间关系的首次研究。 这项研究的广泛影响在于它的潜力在社会学家研究社会结构研究与心理学家对人格研究之间的研究之间弥合了中国研究的差距。 它将为社会政策提供重要的信息，有助于纠正关于中国城市正在进行过渡的心理后果的知识。