Doctoral Dissertation Research: Resilience and Social Transformation in Middle-Range Societies

博士论文研究：中等社会的韧性和社会转型

• 批准号: 2133509
• 负责人: John O'Shea
• 金额: $ 2.52万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-01 至 2023-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2133509&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Resilience; Social

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2)This project focuses on social transformations that occur in “middle-range societies” (societies that according to traditional social evolutionary models fall between bands and states) and the factors that affect the resilience of their social and cultural systems during large-scale socioeconomic changes. While questions of major social transformations, especially collapse and disintegration, are typically framed in the context of states or empires, there is much to be explored about these processes in less complex societies. Middle-range societies -due to their diverse forms of sociopolitical organization and interaction systems - provide an invaluable source of information for researchers who study social responses to large-scale change. This project focuses on a unique form of middle-range society, those that are integrated within an emergent regional system. The research evaluates how local societies become integrated into larger macro-systems with emergent properties and explores how prior conditions and current patterns of interaction affected their resilience in the face of major disruptions. The research highlights the diverse forms of past sociopolitical organization and helps to develop a vocabulary to capture the complexity these societies represent, as well as providing more general models for explaining social change among middle-range societies. The studied processes of interaction, communal integration and social responses to large-scale changes are broadly applicable and provide relevant information for research well beyond the societies analyzed in this investigation.The study integrates a multi-scale interaction model with resilience theory to evaluate specific patterns of social change. The research focuses on the factors underlying the markedly different social trajectories of two neighboring regions following the disintegration of a macro-regional system, and evaluates the degree to which distinct patterns of social change can be attributed to prior local, macro-regional, or external factors in two neighboring areas. The research utilizes archaeological materials from previously excavated sites and surface collections, and applies ceramic stylistic analysis and funerary pattern analysis as the primary methods to evaluate how the different factors affected the local developments. The timing of local developments within the two areas will be monitored via high precision radiocarbon dating.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项是根据2021年《美国救援计划法》（公法117-2）全部或部分资助的，该项目的重点是“中间社会”（根据传统社会进化模型落在乐队和国家之间的传统社会进化模型）以及影响其社会系统中社会和文化系统弹性的因素。尽管通常在国家或帝国的背景下提出了重大社会转型的问题，尤其是崩溃和瓦解的问题，但在不太复杂的社会中，这些过程还有很多探讨。中间社会 - 对他们的潜水形式的社会政治组织和互动系统 - 为研究对大规模变革的社会反应的研究人员提供了宝贵的信息来源。该项目侧重于一种独特的中间社会形式，该社会集成在紧急区域系统中。该研究评估了当地社会如何融入具有新兴特性的较大宏观系统，并探讨了面对重大破坏的先前条件和当前相互作用模式如何影响其韧性。该研究强调了过去的社会政治组织的多样性形式，并有助于开发词汇量以捕捉这些社会所代表的复杂性，并为解释中间社会之间的社会变革提供了更一般的模型。研究互动的互动过程，公共整合和对大规模变化的社会响应非常适用，并为远远超出了本投资中分析的社会的研究提供相关信息。该研究将多规模互动模型与弹性理论相结合，以评估社会变革的特定模式。该研究的重点是在宏观区域系统分解后两个邻近地区明显不同的社会轨迹的因素，并评估社会变革的不同模式可以归因于两个邻近地区的先前局部，宏观区域或外部因素的程度。该研究利用了先前发掘的地点和表面收集的存档材料，并将陶瓷风格分析和丧葬模式分析作为评估不同因素如何影响本地发展的主要方法。这两个领域内的本地发展的时机将通过高精度放射性碳年代来监控。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准，认为通过评估被认为是珍贵的支持。

项目成果

From the ashes of Bronze Age fires: A framework for comparison across body treatments

来自青铜时代大火的灰烬：身体治疗比较的框架

• DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2023.101525
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
• 影响因子: 1.8
• 作者: Parditka, Györgyi;Duffy, Paul R.
• 通讯作者: Duffy, Paul R.