Moral Schemas, Cultural Conflict, and Socio-Political Action
Abstract
This is a brief summary and evaluation of the project, Moral Schemas, Cultural Conflict, and Socio-Political Action. Overall, we have done an adequate job of meeting our original goals, performing much more strongly with respect to Phase One than Phase Two. An overview can hopefully help Minerva staff learn from the successes and missed opportunities within our project. The international surveys in Phase One were successfully developed, piloted, translated, quantified, cleaned up and analyzed over the course of the grant. Weve published two quantitative papers out of that data, with three more under review/almost under review. We anticipate a few more papers developing out of that data in the future. Phase Two, largely the international collaboration of the fMRI portion of the project, is where we ran into the most challenges. This cross-national collaboration represented potentially the most interesting aspect of the project, and as we receive, analyze and compare our experimental data, we hope the findings are worthy of Minervas interest. Ultimately, we gathered the full compliment of data in Istanbul, but only half of the Iowa fMRI scans that we planned on. From this, I can offer some insights about a) the challenges of combining sociological and neurological methodologies within institutional bureaucracies, b) positive outcomes at The University of Iowa due to the particular cross-national struggles of this grant, and c) some general views about the difficulties of transnational research in predominantly Muslim countries, potentially under the aegis of DoD funding. Phase Two encountered literally years of bureaucratic confusion at both The University of Iowa and in communication with Istanbul University. Subcontracting out to a non-traditional country lead to a host of issues outside of the academic enterprise. The University of Iowa, for example, had no dedicated post-award support for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 11, 2020
- Accession Number
- AD1110929
Entities
People
- Hye W. Kwon
- Rengin Firat
- Steven Hitlin
Organizations
- University of Iowa