Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Figuring the Moroccan Child: Socialization, Normativity, and Social Change in Rur-urban Casablanca

博士论文改进补助金：描绘摩洛哥儿童：卡萨布兰卡农村地区的社会化、规范性和社会变革

• 批准号: 0720325
• 负责人: Tanya Luhrmann
• 金额: $ 1.49万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-08-15 至 2009-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0720325&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Figuring

Graduate student Christine Nutter, supervised by Dr. Tanya M. Lhurmann, will undertake research on the integration of new western psychiatric and new Islamic ideas about both normative and abnormal childhood into already existing childrearing practices in Casablanca, Morocco. Despite a significant global increase in the practices that constitute child psychiatry, there is little social science research evaluating the local-level consequences of this trend. The implications of the adoption of these practices in non-Western contexts include a potential restructuring of the way that societies think about the child and the self, as well as how children in distress are treated. At the same time, in North Africa and the Middle East, emerging Islamic revival movements offer a competing vision of childhood and of illness that emphasizes adherence to Islamic beliefs and practices and a negotiation of modern life within these boundaries. The researcher will undertake twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork in a lower-class Casablanca neighborhood. Her research methods will include participant-observation in families, schools, on the street, and in healing institutions in this neighborhood. She also will conduct semi-structured, indepth interviews with both children and adults to understand how new ideas about children are understood and used by children and adults in their everyday lives.The research is important because it will contribute to the growing field of cross-cultural studies of children. Understanding how new ideas influence the behavior and interior lives of both children and adults may contribute to knowledge of how processes of globalization and urbanization change people's ideas about what it means to be normal,, how children should be raised and disciplined, and how these children will grow up experiencing and acting upon the world. This study will contribute to a theoretical understanding of mechanisms underlying social change, as well as an exploration of better practices in the field of child mental health with diverse cultural groups. The research also will contribute to the education of a social scientist.

研究生 Christine Nutter 在 Tanya M. Lhurmann 博士的指导下，将开展研究，将关于规范和异常童年的新西方精神病学和新伊斯兰思想融入摩洛哥卡萨布兰卡现有的育儿实践中。 尽管全球儿童精神病学实践显着增加，但很少有社会科学研究评估这一趋势在地方一级的后果。 在非西方环境中采用这些做法的影响包括可能重新调整社会看待儿童和自我的方式，以及如何对待陷入困境的儿童。 与此同时，在北非和中东，新兴的伊斯兰复兴运动对童年和疾病提出了一种相互竞争的看法，强调坚持伊斯兰信仰和习俗，并在这些界限内协商现代生活。 研究人员将在卡萨布兰卡的一个下层社区进行为期十二个月的民族志实地考察。她的研究方法将包括在家庭、学校、街道和附近的治疗机构中进行参与观察。她还将对儿童和成人进行半结构化的深入访谈，以了解儿童和成人在日常生活中如何理解和使用有关儿童的新想法。这项研究很重要，因为它将有助于不断发展的跨学科领域。儿童文化研究。了解新思想如何影响儿童和成人的行为和内心生活，可能有助于了解全球化和城市化进程如何改变人们对正常意味着什么、如何抚养和管教儿童以及如何这些儿童的看法。将在成长过程中体验世界并采取行动。 这项研究将有助于从理论上理解社会变革的机制，并探索不同文化群体在儿童心理健康领域的更好实践。 该研究还将有助于社会科学家的教育。