INVESTIGADORES
BONIOLO Paula Susana
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
A working class theory of corruption. Thematic analysis of workers ideas about corruption and its consequences
Autor/es:
PAULA BONIOLO; RODOLFO ELBERT
Lugar:
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Reunión:
Congreso; Qualitative strategies to study peoples interpretations of social and political processes, First International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry,; 2005
Institución organizadora:
Norman Denzin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Resumen:
The objective of this paper is to analyze workers definitions of corruption and their judgments of its individual and collective effects. This analysis takes into account that peoples theories about society and corruption are interwoven with the beliefs and emotions that they relate to corrupt practices. Data come from 39 interviews with open-ended questions conducted in October 2004 among male and female workers of the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires. The paper discusses the methodological issues related to a thematic strategy of data analysis based on the systematic reading of the full verbatim transcriptions of narratives. The aim is to recover peoples voices identifying different interpretations, definitions and the theoretical concepts used by workers to explain corruption.