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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Product details

ISBN
9781071918425
Published
2025-05-12
Publisher
Sage Publications Inc Ebooks
Weight
240 gr
Height
215 mm
Width
139 mm
Age
U, 05
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
200

Biographical note

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