Componential Analysis (Ethnographic)
Ethnographic componential analysis is the analytic step that specifies the meaning of folk terms by laying out the distinctive attributes — the components — that distinguish each term from the others in the same contrast set. Rooted in the ethnoscience study of kinship terminologies and systematized within Spradley's Developmental Research Sequence, it builds a paradigm: a grid of terms against the dimensions of contrast that defines exactly what makes, say, an 'uncle' different from a 'cousin' in a given culture's own logic.
Source record
Citations copied verbatim from the method’s source record. No claim-level verification is inferred from them.
- Spradley, J. P. (1979). The Ethnographic Interview. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. · ISBN 9780030444968
- Spradley, J. P. (1980). Participant Observation. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. · ISBN 9780030445019
Curated claims
Claims persisted in the evidence ledger, each with its own assessment.
This view does not invent a claim assessment when the ledger has none.
Related methods
Generated from the method graph and shown as machine-suggested relations — no evidence claim is inferred.