Lyons+Memo+1+Project+Hopping+Revised


 * **Topical Areas?** || **Data Sets?** || **Social Theoretical Questions?** || **Why Now?** || **How Prepared?** || **Bias?** || **Fields of Work?** || Funders? ||
 * Quiverfull Movement: A fundamentalist movement that does not believe in any type of family planning or birth control. Underlying message is to “create an army for god.” || Interviews and Discourse Analysis (maybe some surveys?):
 * Most quiverfull members are in the U.S. and there is a local community in the Catskills.
 * I would like to interview women and male members of the movement as well as well known individuals of the group.
 * There are a number of lay publications by quiverfull members.

Specifics: 2. How do women evaluate claims of physicians? 3. How do women evaluate the concept of expert? 4. How have women created alternative bodies of knowledge? 5. Why have they felt the need to create new bodies of knowledge? 6. What is the role of women in fundamentalist movements? 7. What is the relationship/dialogue between feminism and fundamentalist movements? || 1. Contributes to the study of fundamental movements & women's studies 2. Current literature lacking: does not study specific new right movements, does not deal with reproductive issues other than abortion, little scholarship since mid/late 90s 3. There has been a rise in interest concerning fundamentalist movements, especially in the US. || * I have studied social movements to some degree, but I have no experience with these specific areas or, more importantly, with designing or conducting interviews. University of Washington - Sociology of religion
 * The individual credited with initiating the movement is a female RPI alumna (Mary Pride).
 * Rick & Jan Hess, authors of “A Quiver Full”
 * Charles Provan, author of “The Bible and Birth Control”
 * Rachel Giove Scott, author of “Birthing Gods Might Warriors”
 * Nancy Leigh DeMoss, runs Revive Our Hearts Women's Ministry
 * Quiverfull Belief net
 * Quiverfull Mothering
 * The Jones'
 * The Kortman's || 1. What is the social value of deviance?
 * I have already done some of the reading into the background of the movement.
 * I need to learn more about what work has been done on fundamentalist movements. || * I am an atheist, but it seems that this group would be open to speaking to me and sharing their opinion so long as I was not judgmental. (I bring this up because I think I would be outright asked by participants).
 * Most members are middle class and white...much like myself.
 * I secretly am blown away by how different their perspective is fro my own. || PLACES:

TITLES:
 * Anthropologist with a focus on social deviance
 * Sociologist with a focus social movements
 * Interdisciplinary studies in Human Ecology
 * Sociologist of religion || * HASS
 * NSF dissertation improvement grant
 * SSRC dissertation development fellowship
 * National Humanities Institute ||
 * Eco-Piracy/Radical Marine Environmentalism

Focusing specifically on Sea Shepherd, a group often called eco-pirate and more specifically on the IWC and its relationship with Japan. || Interviews, discourse analysis and participant observation: 2. How are scientific decisions and policy impacted by culture? 3. How do social movements come into being? 4. How do social movements gain legitimacy? 5. How are social movements effective? 6. How have limited natural resources impacted policy? 7. What is the relationship between technology and social movements? || 1. Beginning to receive large amounts of attention in the popular media but no work in academia has been done. 2. Has the ability to significantly impact environmental policy regulations, which in turn will have cultural implications. 3. Calls into questions “expert” opinions from scientists and policy actions based on such decisions. || * I have done some background work on social movements and environmental philosophy, although I am certainly not an expert.
 * The International Whaling Commission (IWC) has yearly meetings, sub-comissions and each country has a representative – I would like to observe meetings and interview representatives.
 * Sea Shepherd members appear to be easily accessible to interview.
 * Participant observation of Sea Shepherd || 1. What is the social value of deviance?
 * I also have a personal connection with an individual who has worked with Sea Shepherd, which may be useful for gaining access to participants for interviews and perhaps observation.
 * I need to strengthen my background in environmental philosophy and policy || * I tend to be pro-activist and direct action, and risk idealizing social activists.
 * My status as a white female might make it difficult to the gain cooperation of Japanese officials and scientists (they are highly defensive) || PLACES:
 * Journal of Social, Cultural and Political Protest
 * International Conference on Grassroots Environmental Movements in Japan and the United States
 * Cornell College of Human Ecology

TITLES: Locations: 1. Library of National Maritime Museum, 2. British National Archives, 3. The Public Record Office in Chancery Lane and Kew, 4. Library of Congress 2. What is the relationship between social deviants/criminals and science and technology? 3. What is the relationship between criminal social groups and education? 4. What is the relationship between deviance and colonialism? 5. How has technology helped marginalized social groups? || 1. Explores a new dimension of Trans-Atlantic history that has been overlooked. 2. Answers Sandra Hardings call for more work in issues of postcolonial science. 3. Addresses the knowledge gap in the construction of Western science. It acknowledges that some of the roots of institutionalized science lie within the activities of social groups who are generally credited with making little to no beneficial contributions to society. 4. This case study can be used to provide additional support to discussions of lay contributions to scientific knowledge; it also makes a significant contribution to the study of experts/expertise and how expertise relates to Western science practices. 5. Since pirate communities were of mixed ethniticities and cultures and they had close contact with indigenous peoples, pirate knowledge networks have added a distinctly non-Western perspective to the development of modern science. || * I have done a decent amount of background work on whether or not this is a doable project (which it seems to be).
 * Anthropologist with a focus on social deviance
 * Sociologist specializing in social movements
 * Interdisciplinary studies in Human Ecology
 * STS with a focus on public engagement with science and technology. || * HASS
 * NSF dissertation improvement grant
 * SSRC dissertation development fellowship
 * SSRC International dissertation research fellowship
 * National Humanities Institute ||
 * Criminals (Pirates) and STS || 1. Archival analysis and discourse analysis. I am contemplating participant observation, but that is unlikely.
 * Analysis of journals, court records and transcripts, captain's logs, etc.
 * Analysis of contemporary drug trafficking and modern piracy cases (Colombian drug submarine & Somali pirates)
 * Participant observation of modern piracy (West Africa) || 1. What is the social value of deviance?
 * I have done research into trans-atlantic studies.
 * I need to learn about archival analysis.
 * I possibly improve on my reading Spanish/French || * I think pirates are pretty cool, but it is entirely possible that they were horrible people – I need to avoid idolizing them.
 * I am a white middle class female – this does not bode well for participant observation of contemporary criminal groups. || PLACES:
 * Middelburgh Center for Transatlantic Studies
 * Journal of Transatlantic Studies
 * Social Science History Association
 * Institute for Transatlantic, European and Atlantic Studies
 * Cornell College of Human Ecology
 * University College London STS Dept.

TITLES:
 * Anthropologist with a focus on social deviance
 * Interdisciplinary studies in Human Ecology
 * History of science, with a focus on postcolonial science || * HASS
 * NSF dissertation improvement grant
 * SSRC dissertation development fellowship
 * National Humanities Institute
 * SSRC International dissertation research fellowship
 * Rotary Scholarship (for international study) ||