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Author:   Benjamin Grant Purzycki
Publisher:   Sage Publications Inc Ebooks
Imprint:   SAGE Publications Inc
Weight:   0.240kg
ISBN:  

9781071918425

ISBN 10:   1071918427
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   12 May 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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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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

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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

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