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,

This method involves research participants listing what they know or think about the researcher’s topic. This book incorporates free-list analyses with other analytical methods and demonstrates their broad applicability. The book starts with descriptive methods, then outlines a predictive statistical framework. The author explains how to collect, clean, and manage free-list data and how to use R to calculate and visualize them.

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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
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781071918425
Publisert
2025-05-12
Utgiver
Vendor
SAGE Publications Inc
Vekt
290 gr
Høyde
215 mm
Bredde
139 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
200

Om bidragsyterne

Benjamin Grant Purzycki is Associate Professor at Aarhus University’s Department of the Study of Religion. A cognitive and evolutionary anthropologist by training, he merges experimental and ethnographic methods together to make better sense of religious systems’ utility for human adaptation. He has conducted fieldwork in the Tyva Republic (Russia) and managed large cross-cultural projects. He co-developed AnthroTools (with Alastair Jamieson-Lane), a software package for analyzing ethnographic data in R and has published in a wide range of journals including Current Anthropology, Cognition, Cognitive Science, Nature, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, and Psychological Methods. His books include Religion Evolving: Cultural, Cognitive, and Ecological Dynamics (with Richard Sosis, Equinox), The Minds of Gods: New Horizons in the Naturalistic Study of Religion (with Theiss Bendixen, Bloomsbury), the two-volume Evolution of Religion and Morality project (with Martin Lang, Joseph Henrich, and Ara Norenzayan, Routledge), and Morality and the Gods (Cambridge University Press).