Collaborative Research: Building the Group Identity Concept from the Ground Up

协作研究：从头开始构建群体认同概念

• 批准号: 2241823
• 负责人: Adrian Bell
• 金额: $ 15.91万
• 依托单位: University of Utah
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-01 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2241823&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Building; Group; Identity

Individuals in our increasingly connected society straddle multiple social worlds. Understanding the intersecting identities that result from these connections is a pressing challenge for social science and policy. This project uses both cross-cultural empirical research and theory-driven mathematical modeling to conceptualize and measure group affiliations, developing a suite of empirical and conceptual tools for social scientists to better engage with the complexities of modern social life. The project trains a post-doctoral scholar and PhD student in scientific and mathematical methods and theory. It also creates interactive, publicly available online tools that (1) explain theories of group membership, (2) illustrate how we can empirically measure group affiliations and the relationships between groups, and (3) demonstrate how the integration of theory and measurement can create a more accurate picture of how our social worlds evolve.This work builds on theories that assert that outward expressions of identity are used instrumentally to facilitate assortment and expedite social interactions, including cooperation and aggression. While these theories are well supported, they often present a limited, unidimensional characterization of identity. In this project, investigators develop cultural evolutionary theory to understand how multifaceted group affiliations respond to individual incentives, including the costs and benefits of coordinating identities and cooperation. Specifically, it builds a new statistical approach that identifies and measures the relationships between real groups. Models are iteratively refined via tests using ethnographic data collected to capture how people understand their own and others’ identities across multiple realms of interaction. Despite being evident that individuals hold multiple group affiliations, we do not currently have analytical tools or language that adequately describes the complex nature of group affiliations. This project builds these tools to contribute to understanding how individuals position themselves across a range of social relationships.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.

我们日益连接的社会中的个人跨越了多个社会世界。了解这些联系所产生的相交身份是社会科学和政策的紧迫挑战。该项目同时使用跨文化实证研究和理论驱动的数学建模来概念化和衡量群体分支机构，为社会科学家开发一套经验和概念工具，以更好地与现代社会生活的复杂性更好地互动。该项目在科学和数学方法和理论方面训练博士后科学和博士生。它还创建了交互式，公开可用的在线工具（1）解释小组成员的理论，（2）说明了我们如何紧急衡量小组分支机构和群体之间的关系，以及（3）演示理论和衡量标准的整合如何可以更准确地了解我们的社会世界的发展。这项工作以理论的理论为基础，即主张外在的身份表达被用来促进分类和加快社交互动，包括合作与合作。尽管这些理论得到了很好的支持，但它们通常会表现出对身份的有限，一维的特征。在该项目中，研究人员开发了文化进化论，以了解多方面的团体分支机构如何应对个人激励措施，包括协调身份和合作的成本和收益。具体而言，它构建了一种新的统计方法，该方法可以识别和衡量真实群体之间的关系。使用收集的民族志数据通过测试对模型进行迭代完善，以捕获人们如何在多个互动领域中理解自己和他人的身份。尽管有证据表明个人拥有多个组分支机构，但我们目前没有适当描述组分支机构复杂性质的分析工具或语言。该项目构建了这些工具，以理解个人如何在一系列社会关系中定位自己。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标准，被视为通过评估而被视为珍贵的支持。