Carl W Roberts
Biographic Data
| ID | 3589504 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carl W Roberts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carl W |
| FAMILY NAME | Roberts |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTS C W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iowa State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Text Analysis for the Social Sciences: Methods for Drawing Statistical Inferences from Texts and Transcripts
Quantitative Evaluation Based on Participants’ Qualitative Feedback -NSF’s I/UCRC Program, 1993-2009
Tucked away towards the end of survey instruments, open-ended questions are often only examined post hoc as researchers search for strategically-placed quotations in support of their otherwise quantitatively-derived conclusions. Yet program evaluations can benefit from participants’ spontaneous insights on how their program might be improved, because these insights commonly reveal previously unforeseen aspects needing support or discouragement. T…
Text Analysis
Even once words have been counted, or their themes and semantics quantitatively rendered as networks or grammars, it remains unclear what they reveal. Are the texts windows into historical facts that the analyst cannot experience in person, or are they windows into their authors' perspectives? A choice is needed here, because authors' perspectives may alter their renderings of “the facts” and, conversely, changes in an author's surroundings may p…
Content Analysis
Semantic text analysis and the measurement of ideological developments within fledgling democracies
This methodological article presents an introduction to the field of clause-based semantic text analysis. The method is introduced and elaborated with regard to the study of ideological developments within fledgling democracies. In such studies modality plays an important role. Democratic societies are maintained in accordance with either a modality of achievement or one of necessity. This is illustrated using editorial texts from Hungary, one of…
On the Cultural Foundations for Universal Healthcare: Implications From Late 20th-Century U.S. and Canadian Health-Related Discourse
Social constructionists approach framing as a process of “sense-making” within which elites and journalists strive to produce content that resonates with their audiences. From this perspective, long-term stability in media content may be viewed as due to cultural limitations on authors' framing efforts. This article provides evidence that Canadians' consistent framing of health-related matters in terms of their common welfare was likely more a re…
Traitor in our Midst: Cultural Variations in Japanese vs. Oklahoman Public Discourse on Domestic Terrorism in the Spring of 1995
When “one of our own” commits mass murder, mechanisms that sustain our social order are opened to question. Based on two samples of newspaper editorials written in 1995 ‐ either after the poison gas attack in the Tokyo subway or after the Oklahoma City bombing ‐ evidence is provided that Japanese editorialists advised strategies for retaining order, whereas Oklahoman authors endorsed ones for reestablishing it. In accordance with Simmel’s distinc…
Coding Issues in Modality Analysis
Ambiguous phrases are the bane of researchers' attempts to ensure acceptably high interrater agreement in the encoding of texts. When modal usages and their associated rationales are encoded as part of a text analysis, ambiguities arise in characteristic (and thus identifiable) ways. This article illustrates the typical sources of disagreement among coders involved in encoding data during a modality analysis and provides concrete strategies for i…
Modalities of Democratic Transformation: Forms of Public Discourse in Hungary's Largest Newspaper, 1990—7
This article is based on the premise that social systems are justified via the discursive use of modal statements (i.e. sentences in which actors delineate that which is possible, impossible, inevitable or contingent) and their associated rationales. Within authoritarian states such modal discourse usually reflects a relatively coherent 'modality of permission'. However, when the citizens of such states unite to overthrow their totalitarian leade…
Actantial analysis: Greimas's structural approach to the analysis of self-narratives
This paper introduces a formal procedure for analyzing narratives that was developed by the French/Lithuanian structuralist, A. J. Greimas. The focus is on demonstrating the utility of Greimas's ideas for analyzing one aspect of personal narratives: identity-construction. Reconstructing the basic actantial structure from self-narratives is shown to provide cues to power differentials among actants as perceived by the narrator. Distinguishing narr…
From Words to Numbers: Narrative, Data, and Social Science
A Generic Semantic Grammar for Quantitative Text Analysis: Applications to East and West Berlin Radio News Content from 1979
In a semantic text analysis the researcher begins by creating one of two types of semantic grammars, each of which provides one or more templates that specify the ways concepts (or more general themes) may be related. On the one hand, a phenomenal semantic grammar can be created to extract phenomenon-related information from a text population (e.g., “Among the population's grievances [the phenomenon of interest in this case], which were ones for …
Themes, syntax and other necessary steps in the network analysis of texts: A Research Paper
Recent approaches to the qualitative analysis of texts afford visual depictions of words as networks. Yet network characteristics can also be quantified, enabling one to draw probabilistic inferences about a population of texts from a sample of texts-encoded-as-networks. This article describes three types of ambiguity (and related methodological problems) that arise during three necessary steps in the quantification of texts as networks: idiomati…
Computer-supported Content Analysis: Some Recent Developments
This paper presents an overview of some recent developments in the clause-based content analysis of linguistic data. It introduces network analysis of evaluative texts, the analysis of cognitive maps, and linguistic content analysis. The focus is on the types of substantive inferences afforded by the three approaches. Keywords: content analysis, text analysis, computer programs
Imagining God: Who Is Created in Whose Image
Other Than Counting Words: A Linguistic Approach to Content Analysis
Journal Article Other Than Counting Words: A Linguistic Approach to Content Analysis Get access Carl W. Roberts Carl W. Roberts Iowa State University Direct correspondence to the author, Department of Sociology, or Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 68, Issue 1, September 1989, Pages 147–177, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/68.1…
Boyhood gender identity development: A statistical contrast of two family groups
Tracing Formative Influences on Event Recall: A Test of Mannheim's Sensitivity Hypothesis
Evidence is presented in support of Karl Mannheim's theory that people are more sensitive to events that occur during their formative years than to those that occur later in the life course. Accordingly, a cohort anlaysis is performed on recall data from a questionnaire survey of Wilson scholars. Methodological problems in the analysis of cohort tables are considered, inspiring discussions of data transformations, stagewise regression, nonlinear …
Generations and Ideological Change: Some Observations
Journal Article Generations and Ideological Change: Some Observations Get access CARL W. ROBERTS, CARL W. ROBERTS Carl W. Roberts is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Department of Statistics, Iowa State University. Kurt Lang is Director and Professor, School of Communications, University of Washington. An earlier version of this article was presented at the American Sociological Association in Detroit…
Boyhood gender identity development: A statistical contrast of two family groups
Coding Issues in Modality Analysis
Ambiguous phrases are the bane of researchers' attempts to ensure acceptably high interrater agreement in the encoding of texts. When modal usages and their associated rationales are encoded as part of a text analysis, ambiguities arise in characteristic (and thus identifiable) ways. This article illustrates the typical sources of disagreement among coders involved in encoding data during a modality analysis and provides concrete strategies for i…
Other Than Counting Words: A Linguistic Approach to Content Analysis
Journal Article Other Than Counting Words: A Linguistic Approach to Content Analysis Get access Carl W. Roberts Carl W. Roberts Iowa State University Direct correspondence to the author, Department of Sociology, or Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 68, Issue 1, September 1989, Pages 147–177, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/68.1…
Modalities of Democratic Transformation: Forms of Public Discourse in Hungary's Largest Newspaper, 1990—7
This article is based on the premise that social systems are justified via the discursive use of modal statements (i.e. sentences in which actors delineate that which is possible, impossible, inevitable or contingent) and their associated rationales. Within authoritarian states such modal discourse usually reflects a relatively coherent 'modality of permission'. However, when the citizens of such states unite to overthrow their totalitarian leade…
A Generic Semantic Grammar for Quantitative Text Analysis: Applications to East and West Berlin Radio News Content from 1979
In a semantic text analysis the researcher begins by creating one of two types of semantic grammars, each of which provides one or more templates that specify the ways concepts (or more general themes) may be related. On the one hand, a phenomenal semantic grammar can be created to extract phenomenon-related information from a text population (e.g., “Among the population's grievances [the phenomenon of interest in this case], which were ones for …
Imagining God: Who Is Created in Whose Image
Generations and Ideological Change: Some Observations
Journal Article Generations and Ideological Change: Some Observations Get access CARL W. ROBERTS, CARL W. ROBERTS Carl W. Roberts is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Department of Statistics, Iowa State University. Kurt Lang is Director and Professor, School of Communications, University of Washington. An earlier version of this article was presented at the American Sociological Association in Detroit…
Actantial analysis: Greimas's structural approach to the analysis of self-narratives
This paper introduces a formal procedure for analyzing narratives that was developed by the French/Lithuanian structuralist, A. J. Greimas. The focus is on demonstrating the utility of Greimas's ideas for analyzing one aspect of personal narratives: identity-construction. Reconstructing the basic actantial structure from self-narratives is shown to provide cues to power differentials among actants as perceived by the narrator. Distinguishing narr…
Semantic text analysis and the measurement of ideological developments within fledgling democracies
This methodological article presents an introduction to the field of clause-based semantic text analysis. The method is introduced and elaborated with regard to the study of ideological developments within fledgling democracies. In such studies modality plays an important role. Democratic societies are maintained in accordance with either a modality of achievement or one of necessity. This is illustrated using editorial texts from Hungary, one of…
Themes, syntax and other necessary steps in the network analysis of texts: A Research Paper
Recent approaches to the qualitative analysis of texts afford visual depictions of words as networks. Yet network characteristics can also be quantified, enabling one to draw probabilistic inferences about a population of texts from a sample of texts-encoded-as-networks. This article describes three types of ambiguity (and related methodological problems) that arise during three necessary steps in the quantification of texts as networks: idiomati…
Computer-supported Content Analysis: Some Recent Developments
This paper presents an overview of some recent developments in the clause-based content analysis of linguistic data. It introduces network analysis of evaluative texts, the analysis of cognitive maps, and linguistic content analysis. The focus is on the types of substantive inferences afforded by the three approaches. Keywords: content analysis, text analysis, computer programs
Tracing Formative Influences on Event Recall: A Test of Mannheim's Sensitivity Hypothesis
Evidence is presented in support of Karl Mannheim's theory that people are more sensitive to events that occur during their formative years than to those that occur later in the life course. Accordingly, a cohort anlaysis is performed on recall data from a questionnaire survey of Wilson scholars. Methodological problems in the analysis of cohort tables are considered, inspiring discussions of data transformations, stagewise regression, nonlinear …
Generations and Ideological Change: Some Observations
Journal Article Generations and Ideological Change: Some Observations Get access CARL W. ROBERTS, CARL W. ROBERTS Carl W. Roberts is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Department of Statistics, Iowa State University. Kurt Lang is Director and Professor, School of Communications, University of Washington. An earlier version of this article was presented at the American Sociological Association in Detroit…
Tracing Formative Influences on Event Recall: A Test of Mannheim's Sensitivity Hypothesis
Evidence is presented in support of Karl Mannheim's theory that people are more sensitive to events that occur during their formative years than to those that occur later in the life course. Accordingly, a cohort anlaysis is performed on recall data from a questionnaire survey of Wilson scholars. Methodological problems in the analysis of cohort tables are considered, inspiring discussions of data transformations, stagewise regression, nonlinear …
Boyhood gender identity development: A statistical contrast of two family groups
Imagining God: Who Is Created in Whose Image
Other Than Counting Words: A Linguistic Approach to Content Analysis
Journal Article Other Than Counting Words: A Linguistic Approach to Content Analysis Get access Carl W. Roberts Carl W. Roberts Iowa State University Direct correspondence to the author, Department of Sociology, or Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 68, Issue 1, September 1989, Pages 147–177, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/68.1…
Computer-supported Content Analysis: Some Recent Developments
This paper presents an overview of some recent developments in the clause-based content analysis of linguistic data. It introduces network analysis of evaluative texts, the analysis of cognitive maps, and linguistic content analysis. The focus is on the types of substantive inferences afforded by the three approaches. Keywords: content analysis, text analysis, computer programs
Themes, syntax and other necessary steps in the network analysis of texts: A Research Paper
Recent approaches to the qualitative analysis of texts afford visual depictions of words as networks. Yet network characteristics can also be quantified, enabling one to draw probabilistic inferences about a population of texts from a sample of texts-encoded-as-networks. This article describes three types of ambiguity (and related methodological problems) that arise during three necessary steps in the quantification of texts as networks: idiomati…
A Generic Semantic Grammar for Quantitative Text Analysis: Applications to East and West Berlin Radio News Content from 1979
In a semantic text analysis the researcher begins by creating one of two types of semantic grammars, each of which provides one or more templates that specify the ways concepts (or more general themes) may be related. On the one hand, a phenomenal semantic grammar can be created to extract phenomenon-related information from a text population (e.g., “Among the population's grievances [the phenomenon of interest in this case], which were ones for …
Actantial analysis: Greimas's structural approach to the analysis of self-narratives
This paper introduces a formal procedure for analyzing narratives that was developed by the French/Lithuanian structuralist, A. J. Greimas. The focus is on demonstrating the utility of Greimas's ideas for analyzing one aspect of personal narratives: identity-construction. Reconstructing the basic actantial structure from self-narratives is shown to provide cues to power differentials among actants as perceived by the narrator. Distinguishing narr…
From Words to Numbers: Narrative, Data, and Social Science
Coding Issues in Modality Analysis
Ambiguous phrases are the bane of researchers' attempts to ensure acceptably high interrater agreement in the encoding of texts. When modal usages and their associated rationales are encoded as part of a text analysis, ambiguities arise in characteristic (and thus identifiable) ways. This article illustrates the typical sources of disagreement among coders involved in encoding data during a modality analysis and provides concrete strategies for i…
Modalities of Democratic Transformation: Forms of Public Discourse in Hungary's Largest Newspaper, 1990—7
This article is based on the premise that social systems are justified via the discursive use of modal statements (i.e. sentences in which actors delineate that which is possible, impossible, inevitable or contingent) and their associated rationales. Within authoritarian states such modal discourse usually reflects a relatively coherent 'modality of permission'. However, when the citizens of such states unite to overthrow their totalitarian leade…
Traitor in our Midst: Cultural Variations in Japanese vs. Oklahoman Public Discourse on Domestic Terrorism in the Spring of 1995
When “one of our own” commits mass murder, mechanisms that sustain our social order are opened to question. Based on two samples of newspaper editorials written in 1995 ‐ either after the poison gas attack in the Tokyo subway or after the Oklahoma City bombing ‐ evidence is provided that Japanese editorialists advised strategies for retaining order, whereas Oklahoman authors endorsed ones for reestablishing it. In accordance with Simmel’s distinc…
On the Cultural Foundations for Universal Healthcare: Implications From Late 20th-Century U.S. and Canadian Health-Related Discourse
Social constructionists approach framing as a process of “sense-making” within which elites and journalists strive to produce content that resonates with their audiences. From this perspective, long-term stability in media content may be viewed as due to cultural limitations on authors' framing efforts. This article provides evidence that Canadians' consistent framing of health-related matters in terms of their common welfare was likely more a re…
Text Analysis
Even once words have been counted, or their themes and semantics quantitatively rendered as networks or grammars, it remains unclear what they reveal. Are the texts windows into historical facts that the analyst cannot experience in person, or are they windows into their authors' perspectives? A choice is needed here, because authors' perspectives may alter their renderings of “the facts” and, conversely, changes in an author's surroundings may p…
Content Analysis
Semantic text analysis and the measurement of ideological developments within fledgling democracies
This methodological article presents an introduction to the field of clause-based semantic text analysis. The method is introduced and elaborated with regard to the study of ideological developments within fledgling democracies. In such studies modality plays an important role. Democratic societies are maintained in accordance with either a modality of achievement or one of necessity. This is illustrated using editorial texts from Hungary, one of…
Quantitative Evaluation Based on Participants’ Qualitative Feedback -NSF’s I/UCRC Program, 1993-2009
Tucked away towards the end of survey instruments, open-ended questions are often only examined post hoc as researchers search for strategically-placed quotations in support of their otherwise quantitatively-derived conclusions. Yet program evaluations can benefit from participants’ spontaneous insights on how their program might be improved, because these insights commonly reveal previously unforeseen aspects needing support or discouragement. T…
Text Analysis for the Social Sciences: Methods for Drawing Statistical Inferences from Texts and Transcripts
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