: details a method that involves research participants listing what they know or think about the researcher’s topic of interest. While researchers typically report these free-list analyses in isolation, this book incorporates them with other analytical methods and demonstrates how ethnographic free-lists can be useful to a broad social science audience. The first half of the book covers descriptive methods, and the second half incorporates insights from the early chapters into a predictive statistical framework. Author Benjamin Grant Purzycki explains how to collect, clean, and manage free-list data and how to use R to calculate and visualize the data.
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An innovative research methods book that provides a step-by-step guide to the popular R software. Researchers of any social scientific discipline will benefit tremendously from procedural knowledge in transforming conventionally qualitative data into quantitative reasoning. -- Kenneth C. C. Yang
Series Editor Introduction
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Chapter 1: Introduction
What Is a Free-List?
Why Free-List?
Getting to Work
Data Management
Chapter 2: Content Analysis
Background
Frequency Analysis
Salience Analysis
Salience Revisited
Further Methods in Content Analysis
Summary
Chapter 3: Structure Analysis
Examining Conceptual Relationships
Two Case Studies
Conceptual Networks
Further Methods in Structure Analysis
Chapter 4: Overlap and Sharedness
Conceptual Overlap Across Domains
Intragroup Sharing and Variation
Intergroup Sharing and Variation
Summary and Closing Note
Chapter 5: Models, Prediction, and Uncertainty
The Arithmetic Mean as a Model
Primer on Regression
Bayesian Regression
Chapter 6: Free-List Data in Regression
Thinking Through the System
Predicting List Lengths
Predicting Item Presence
Predicting Salience
Multilevel Models
Using Individual Free-Lists to Predict Behavior
Concluding Remarks
Chapter 7: Future Prospects
Culture, Text, and Content
Cognition, Culture, and Society
Culture Evolving
References
Index
Benjamin Grant Purzycki is Associate Professor at Aarhus University. He is a cognitive and evolutionary cultural anthropologist and focuses on the causal role of various demographic and cultural factors on human cooperation. He has conducted fieldwork in the Tyva Republic (Russia) and managed large, cross-cultural projects. His most recent books include The Minds of Gods: New Horizons in the Naturalistic Study of Religion (Bloomsbury), Ethnographic Free-List Data (Sage), and Morality and the Gods (Cambridge University Press). Personal website: www.bgpurzycki.wordpress.com
