The Marine Corps Organizational Culture Research (MCOCR) Project gathered Marine perspectives on culture, gender bias, leadership, and cohesion between 2017 and 2020. Data consist of 179 transcripts from semi-structured interviews and focus groups conducted at six locations in 2017. The project was authored by Kerry Fosher and harvested by QDR.
Use Cases
- Analyzing gender bias perceptions within military culture based on interview transcripts.
- Studying leadership and cohesion themes from qualitative Marine perspectives.
- Examining applied social science research outcomes using the provided public domain examples.
- Using the recruiting poster and project overview as contextual data for methodological studies.
Strengths
- Contains 179 transcripts providing a substantial qualitative corpus.
- Includes contextual materials like a project overview, recruiting poster, and research outcomes.
- Focuses on specific themes of gender bias, leadership, and cohesion.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count for the transcripts is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect temporal and geographic bias inherent to the 2017 collection at six locations.
Provenance
- Source
- QDR Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Semi-structured interviews and focus groups.
- Time Range
- 2017-2020
- Geography
- Six unspecified locations.