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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.

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Spradley's Domain Analysis (Developmental Research Sequence)
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / anthropology
  • 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
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Taxonomic bucketComponential Analysis (Ethnographic)machine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyCultural Domain Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketFolk Taxonomy Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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