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The language of altruism: Corpus-based conceptualization of social category for management sociology. / Rubtcova, M.; Pavenkov, O.; Pavenkov, V.; Elena, V.
In: Asian Social Science, Vol. 11, No. 13, 2015, p. 289-297.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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TY - JOUR
T1 - The language of altruism: Corpus-based conceptualization of social category for management sociology
AU - Rubtcova, M.
AU - Pavenkov, O.
AU - Pavenkov, V.
AU - Elena, V.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Management sociology poses the problem of the quantitative interpretation of qualitative research. The article deals with the corpus-based method, which can be considered as one of the solution tools. Based on ‘grounded theory’ methodology (Strauss & Corbin, n. d.) and partly debating with conceptual analysis (Sartory & Goertz, n. d.), we propose to elaborate a definition of the concept using quantitative research. The authors identified useful areas of corpus linguistics in the analysis of social and management phenomena and distinguished between corpus linguistics and sociological content analysis methods: - Direct appeal to the everyday use of the language increases the objectivity of the research; - A corpus provides a large quantity of representative data; - The possibility of diachronic and synchronic comparative studies; - The method itself is not time-consuming and expensive. We chose the category ‘altruism’ as an example to demonstrate the possibilities of the method. The analysis shows features in t
AB - Management sociology poses the problem of the quantitative interpretation of qualitative research. The article deals with the corpus-based method, which can be considered as one of the solution tools. Based on ‘grounded theory’ methodology (Strauss & Corbin, n. d.) and partly debating with conceptual analysis (Sartory & Goertz, n. d.), we propose to elaborate a definition of the concept using quantitative research. The authors identified useful areas of corpus linguistics in the analysis of social and management phenomena and distinguished between corpus linguistics and sociological content analysis methods: - Direct appeal to the everyday use of the language increases the objectivity of the research; - A corpus provides a large quantity of representative data; - The possibility of diachronic and synchronic comparative studies; - The method itself is not time-consuming and expensive. We chose the category ‘altruism’ as an example to demonstrate the possibilities of the method. The analysis shows features in t
KW - conceptualization
KW - social categories
KW - management sociology
KW - corpus linguistics
KW - altruism
KW - Russian
U2 - 10.5539/ass.v11n13p289
DO - 10.5539/ass.v11n13p289
M3 - Article
VL - 11
SP - 289
EP - 297
JO - Asian Social Science
JF - Asian Social Science
SN - 1911-2017
IS - 13
ER -
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