A Comparison of Informal Networks in Two Labrador Communities

两个拉布拉多社区非正式网络的比较

• 批准号: 0908155
• 负责人: Kirk Dombrowski
• 金额: $ 56.02万
• 依托单位: CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-07-15 至 2013-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0908155&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Comparison; Informal; Networks; Two; Labrador

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This project includes 30 months of interdisciplinary research aimed at understanding how people in Arctic Communities form social connections in response to high levels of social change. The research will take place in the communities of Nain and Goose Bay, located in Labrador, Canada. There, as in many Arctic towns and villages, resource development, land settlements, and new governing mechanisms have prompted significant adjustments in how people earn a living and deal with outside interests. While individual, personal accounts of these changes are available, there has been little systematic investigation of the local patterns of social interconnection. This is important because social connections play a significant role in influencing individual perspectives on change. This project investigates patterns of social connectedness - called social networks - as they are made and remade by Northern residents. It seeks to understand how network connections influence peoples' lives, livelihoods, and understandings of their political and economic opportunities/challenges.The research entails 800 interviews with residents of the two communities. Interviews focus on the links people make use of as they go about finding housing and jobs, or securing household health and traditional food harvests. Sometimes, as with the sharing of traditional foods, these connections ensure the movement of necessary and important goods and staples. In other cases, connections facilitate the movement of information relating to the economy or government programs. In such cases, the pattern of connections is bound to be quite different. Yet taken together, social networks influence a range of important factors, from public opinion about development projects to local health outcomes and educational attainment.Project researchers are using new methodologies aimed at producing composite models of large networks from individual accounts. These models allow the research team to do more than simply represent these networks. Using methods from Network Theory, the models provide an opportunity to render the flows of resources and information in mathematical terms, which can then be compared with similar structures in other places. Precise knowledge of these networks will allow local residents and policy makers to better understand and manage the pace of change in the North, and to understand how local communities continue to react and change in their interaction with governing bodies and outside interests (such as health providers and resource developers). The project is undertaken with cooperation and support of the Nunatsiavut Government (the Inuit administrative body for Labrador) and the Labrador-Grenfell Health Authority, and is being carried out by team of researchers from the City University of New York that specialize in projects that integrate ethnography, network science, sociology, and public health. The research for the project is expected to be complete by August, 2010

该奖项是根据2009年的《美国复苏与再投资法》（公法111-5）资助的。该项目包括30个月的跨学科研究，旨在了解北极社区中的人们如何形成社会联系，以响应高水平的社会变革。这项研究将在位于加拿大拉布拉多的Nain和Goose Bay社区进行。 与许多北极城镇和村庄一样，资源开发，土地定居点和新的管理机制已经促使人们如何谋生和应对外部利益。 尽管可以使用这些更改的个人说明，但对社会互连的当地模式几乎没有系统的调查。 这很重要，因为社会联系在影响个人观点的变化方面起着重要作用。 该项目调查了社会联系的模式 - 称为社交网络 - 由北方居民制作并重新制作。它试图了解网络联系如何影响人们对政治和经济机会/挑战的生活，生计和理解。研究需要对两个社区的居民进行800次访谈。 访谈的重点是人们在寻找住房和工作，或确保家庭健康和传统食品收获时使用的链接。 有时，与共享传统食品一样，这些连接确保了必要的重要商品和主食的运动。 在其他情况下，联系有助于与经济或政府计划有关的信息的发展。 在这种情况下，连接模式必将完全不同。 然而，社交网络会影响一系列重要因素，从关于开发项目的公众舆论到本地健康成果和教育成就。项目研究人员正在使用旨在从单个帐户中产生大型网络复合模型的新方法。 这些模型允许研究团队做更多的事情，而不仅仅是表示这些网络。 使用网络理论的方法，这些模型提供了以数学术语呈现资源和信息流的机会，然后可以将其与其他地方的类似结构进行比较。 这些网络的精确知识将使当地居民和政策制定者能够更好地理解和管理北方变革的速度，并了解当地社区如何在与理事机构和外部利益的互动（例如健康提供者和资源开发商）中继续做出反应和改变。 该项目是在Nunatsiavut政府（拉布拉多的因纽特人行政机构）和拉布拉多·格林菲尔卫生管理局（Labrador-Grenfell Health Authority）的合作和支持下进行的，并由纽约市研究人员的团队进行，专门研究民族志，网络科学，社会学和公共卫生的项目。 该项目的研究预计将在2010年8月之前完成