Standardizing Open Interaction Coding for Status Processes

Welcome:
Guest

Advances in Group Processes

ISSN: 0882-6145
Series editor(s): S.R.Thye and Edward Lawler

Subject Area: Sociology and Public Policy

Content: Series Volumes | Current Volume RSS

Options: To add Favourites and Table of Contents Alerts please take a Emerald profile

Document Information:
Title:	Standardizing Open Interaction Coding for Status Processes
Author(s):	Jennifer McLeer, Jake Frederick, Barry Markovsky, Christopher Barnum
Volume:	28 Editor(s): Shane R. Thye, Edward J. Lawler ISBN: 978-0-85724-773-5 eISBN: 978-0-85724-774-2
Citation:	Jennifer McLeer, Jake Frederick, Barry Markovsky, Christopher Barnum (2011), Standardizing Open Interaction Coding for Status Processes, in Shane R. Thye, Edward J. Lawler (ed.) Advances in Group Processes (Advances in Group Processes, Volume 28), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.33-58
DOI:	10.1108/S0882-6145(2011)0000028005 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Article type:	Chapter Item
Abstract:	We detail the evolution of open interaction coding schemes that have long been used to capture behavioral indicators of the power and prestige order in status characteristics research. Although the theoretical variables ostensibly measured with these methods are few and explicit, the implementation of open interaction coding is not standardized and different projects have keyed on different specific behaviors. We argue that open interaction coding could benefit from the utilization of a more refined and standardized coding scheme. We offer precise operational definitions and some illustrations from our own recent projects in hopes of fostering more transparency in future research.