Perceptual Mapping

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

Homework due: Report results of CDA Exercise.

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 [gdoc]

• Componential Analysis of American Kinship Terms

• Hierarchical clustering

• Triads

• Profit

• emic measures of similarity

• Consensus

Datasets

• morse code