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.

在我们日益联系的社会中，理解这些联系所产生的交叉身份是社会科学和政策面临的紧迫挑战，该项目利用跨文化实证研究和理论驱动的数学模型来概念化和衡量群体。该项目为博士后学者和博士生提供科学和数学方法和理论的培训，并为社会科学家开发一套经验和概念工具，以更好地应对现代社会生活。 (1) 解释理论的在线工具群体成员资格的研究，（2）说明我们如何凭经验测量群体归属和群体之间的关系，以及（3）展示理论和测量的结合如何能够更准确地描述我们的社会世界如何演变。这项工作建立在声称身份的外在表达有助于促进分类和加速社会互动（包括合作和侵略）的理论虽然这些理论得到了充分的支持，但它们往往呈现出有限的、单维的身份特征。在这个项目中，研究人员发展了文化进化论。理论如何理解多方面具体来说，它建立了一种新的统计方法，可以识别和衡量真实群体之间的关系，通过使用收集的民族志数据进行测试来迭代完善模型，以捕获人们的行为。尽管很明显个人拥有多个群体归属，但我们目前没有充分描述群体归属的复杂性质的分析工具或语言。该项目构建了这些工具来帮助实现这一目标。了解个人的定位该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。