The analysis of perceptual domains, mostly by examining perceived similarities among a set of items that are all of a type.
Please download the anthropac software and run both VAP-Freelists and VAP-Pilesorts on the bad words and holidays data, respectively.
cultural domains
freelisting
pilesorts
triad tests
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]
"Structure and Meaning in Models of Breast and Cervical Cancer Risk Factors: A Comparison of Perceptions among Latinas, Anglo women, and Physicians." [by Leo Chavez, authored with F. Allan Hubbell, Juliet M. McMullin, Rebecca G. Martinez, and Shiraz I. Mishra]. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 9:4--74, 1995. [^pdf]
Sample freelist data
Sample freelist output
Software
Homework (due next class)
Collect pilesorts on journals in your field
Ryan, G., J. Nolan, and S. Yoder. 2000. Successive free listing: Using multiple free lists to generate explanatory models. Field Methods 12:83-107.