Elicitation Tasks

This week we consider structured data collection tasks such as pilesorts and paired comparisons. These are part of a larger research area known as CDA, cultural (or cognitive) domain analysis.

Primary Readings

• Weller and Romney. Systematic Data Collection. Sage. (whole book)

• Borgatti, S.P. and Halgin, D. In Press. Elicitation Methods for Cultural Domain Analysis - Revised. in J. Schensul & M. LeCompte (Ed.) The Ethnographer's Toolkit, Volume 3. Walnut Creek: Altamira Press. [pdf]

Secondary Readings

• Representing cognitive systems

• Componential Analysis of American Kinship Terms

• Hierarchical clusteringTriads

• Profit

• emic measures of similarity

• Consensus