The Importance of Matrices 3

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The Importance of Matrices

Here is a quote from Joanne Martin in her book on Cultural Theory. She talks about the importance of using a matrix to understand and decipher information.  It’s well written and to the point.

“When content themes are combined with cultural forms and formal and informal practices, we have the pieces of a cultural puzzle. We can explore how interpretations of these cultural manifestations relate to each other by summarizing the results of a cultural study– the pieces of the cultural puzzle, in one or more matrices. Columns in a matrix are types of cultural manifestations (such) as rituals or stories) and rows are types of cultural manifestations, are context specific content themes (such as the need to take a long term perspective or the company’s concern for employee well being). A matrix is useful because it shows precisely how culture has been operationalized… Such a matrix clearly exposes what a given researcher has actually studied when he or she claimed to be studying culture. A matrix is useful for summarizing the results of other people’s studies, or it can be used to summarize the results of your own culture research. It is meant as a supplement-not a substitute-for a full description of research results, whether theirs results are written in prose (as in an ethnographic portrait) or represented in statistics.

Such matrices are also useful because too often a cultural study is just a richly detailed description; the underlying patters of interpretation and theory of culture are difficult to decipher. When such a study is summarized in a series of matrices, theoretical assumptions become easier to see because the patterns of interpretations, across manifestations are made evident. The cell entries in such matrices, and the underlying patterns of interpretation of those cultural manifestations, show how a researcher has answered the following questions:  What is culture? What is not culture? Often, it is the empty cells and omissions that will be most important in making this diagnosis. Used in this way, a matrix is a prompt for deductive theorizing: You can see what has been studied, and how it has been interpreted, to determine what theory is in use.”

Joanne Martin, (2002). Organizational Culture: Mapping the Terrain. Sage Publications. (126-127)

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