Standardization and Measurement in Cultural Anthropology: A Neglected Area [and Comments and Reply]
| Autor: | Harold K. Schneider, W. G. Studdert-Kennedy, H. Leedom Lefferts, Usher Fleising, Raoul Naroll, Frances Henry, A. R. Momin, Robert Lawless, Ronald Cohen, Simeon W. Chilungu, T. R. Singh, Jerry A. Moles, J. V. Ferreira, William L. Partridge, K. Chattopadhyay, E. Kolig, Gerald F. Murray |
|---|---|
| Rok vydání: | 1977 |
| Předmět: | |
| Zdroj: | Current Anthropology. 18:235-258 |
| ISSN: | 1537-5382 0011-3204 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/201887 |
| Popis: | One of the major problems facing anthropology as it continues to develop as a scientific discipline is the development of standardized research approaches. This article reviews the issues involved in the creation of standardized research procedures in the discipline. The relationship between cross-cultural comparison and the collection of field data is explored. The process of standardization, incliding the operationalization of concepts, the creation of data collection techniques, and the development of mathematical measures to represent the data, is discussed. Standardizations is viewed as an endless endeavor in which the specifications and techniques used in research are points of departure, not points of arrival. Scientific description and the understanding of cultural and social phenomena are seen to advance with advances in observational specifications, data collecting procedures, and measurement techniques. Questions are raised concerning the need for minimal data requirements in ethnographic inves... |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|