Methoden vergleichen

	Pile Sorting	Cultural Domain Analysis
Fachgebiet	Anthropology	Anthropology
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Entstehungsjahr	1988	1994
Urheber	Cognitive anthropology tradition (Weller & Romney; Borgatti)	Stephen P. Borgatti (synthesis of cognitive anthropology methods)
Typ	Elicitation procedure for perceived similarity among domain items	Integrated framework for eliciting and analyzing cultural domains
Wegweisende Quelle	Weller, S. C., & Romney, A. K. (1988). Systematic Data Collection. Qualitative Research Methods Series 10. Newbury Park, CA: Sage. ISBN: 9780803930742	Borgatti, S. P. (1994). Cultural domain analysis. Journal of Quantitative Anthropology, 4(4), 261–278.
Aliasnamen	Pile Sort Task, Free Pile Sort, Card Sorting (ethnographic), Sorting Task	CDA, Domain Analysis (cognitive anthropology), Cultural Domains Approach, Cognitive Domain Analysis
Verwandt	4	4
Zusammenfassung	Pile sorting is an elicitation technique in which informants are handed a set of cards — one per item in a cultural domain — and asked to group them into piles of items that 'go together.' By recording which items each person places in the same pile and aggregating across many informants, the researcher builds a similarity matrix that reveals how the culture organizes the domain, which is then visualized with multidimensional scaling and clustering.	Cultural domain analysis is the integrated framework in cognitive anthropology for discovering the content and structure of a cultural domain — a coherent set of related items such as illnesses, animals, kin terms, or emotions — as the members of a culture themselves organize it. It chains together elicitation methods (free listing, pile sorting, triad tests) and analytic methods (salience, multidimensional scaling, clustering, consensus analysis) to move from 'what items are in this domain?' to 'how are they organized and how widely is that organization shared?'