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Consensus Analysis


Consensus Analysis refers to a theory and method developed by Romney, Weller and Batchelder. As a theory, it gives the conditions under which agreement implies knowledge. As a method, it provides a way of evaluating how much people know about a given domain, and of estimating "cultural truth".

 

Topics

  • consensus methodology

  • factor analysis

  • Q-methodology

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Readings

  • Romney, A. Kimball,. Susan C. Weller and William H. Batchelder. 1986. Culture as Consensus: A Theory of Culture and Informant Accuracy. American Anthropologist 88:313 338 [^pdf]
  • Jaskyte, Kristina and William W. Dressler. (2004)  Studying culture as an integral aggregate variable: organizational culture and innovation in a group of nonprofit organizations.  Field Methods, Vol. 16, No. 3, 265-284 [^pdf]

 

Bibliography

  • Romney 1999. Culture Consensus as a Statistical Model. Current Anthropology 40(supplement): 103-115
    • Robert Aunger
    • Current Anthropology, Vol. 36, No. 1, Special Issue: Ethnographic Authority and Cultural Explanation (Feb., 1995), pp. 97-130
    • Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
    • Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2744226
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    • C. H. Browner, Bernard R. Ortiz de Montellano, Arthur J. Rubel, Jean Benoist, E. L. Cerroni-Long, Jadwiga Charzewska, Benjamin N. Colby, Linda C. Garro, Nancie L. Gonzalez, Byron Good, Roberta L. Hall, J. M. Janzen, Arthur Kleinman, Angelina Pollak-Eltz
    • Current Anthropology, Vol. 29, No. 5 (Dec., 1988), pp. 681-702
    • Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
    • Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2743606
    • John B. Gatewood
    • Ethnology, Vol. 39, No. 4, Special Issue: Comparative Research and Cultural Units (Autumn, 2000), pp. 293-303
    • Published by: University of Pittsburgh- Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    • Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3774048
    • Stephen O. Murray
    • American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 89, No. 2 (Jun., 1987), pp. 443-444
    • Published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the American Anthropological Association
    • Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/677771
    • Donald Joralemon
    • American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 89, No. 2 (Jun., 1987), pp. 442-443
    • Published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the American Anthropological Association
    • Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/677770
    • American Ethnologist, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Aug., 1993), pp. 664-665
    • Published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the American Anthropological Association
    • Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/646684
    • Robert Aunger
    • Current Anthropology, Vol. 40, Supplement: Special Issue: Culture. A Second Chance? (Feb., 1999), pp. S93-S101
    • Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
    • Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2991333
    • Michael L. Burton, Carmella C. Moore, John W. M. Whiting, A. Kimball Romney, David F. Aberle, Juan A. Barcelo, Malcolm M. Dow, Jane I. Guyer, David B. Kronenfeld, Jerrold E. Levy, Jocelyn Linnekin
    • Current Anthropology, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Feb., 1996), pp. 87-123
    • Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
    • Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2744156
    • A. Kimball Romney
    • Current Anthropology, Vol. 40, Supplement: Special Issue: Culture. A Second Chance? (Feb., 1999), pp. S103-S115
    • Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
    • Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2991334

 

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