Spradley Domain Analysis
Spradley's domain analysis is the first analytic step in James Spradley's Developmental Research Sequence for ethnography. It systematically searches interview and observation data for cultural domains — categories of meaning organized around a cover term and the more specific terms it includes — by looking for the semantic relationships, such as 'is a kind of' or 'is a way to,' that informants use to connect them. The goal is to discover how members of a culture organize their knowledge in their own words.
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.