方法对比

	Successive Pile Sorting	Pile Sorting
领域	Anthropology	Anthropology
方法族	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
起源年份	1988	1988
提出者	Cognitive anthropology tradition (Weller & Romney)	Cognitive anthropology tradition (Weller & Romney; Borgatti)
类型	Elicitation procedure for hierarchical structure of a cultural domain	Elicitation procedure for perceived similarity among domain items
开创性文献	Weller, S. C., & Romney, A. K. (1988). Systematic Data Collection. Qualitative Research Methods Series 10. Newbury Park, CA: Sage. ISBN: 9780803930742	Weller, S. C., & Romney, A. K. (1988). Systematic Data Collection. Qualitative Research Methods Series 10. Newbury Park, CA: Sage. ISBN: 9780803930742
别名	Hierarchical Pile Sort, Successive Sorting Task, Multi-Level Pile Sort, Successive Free Pile Sort	Pile Sort Task, Free Pile Sort, Card Sorting (ethnographic), Sorting Task
相关	4	4
摘要	Successive pile sorting is an extension of the single-level pile sort in which informants first divide a set of items into a few broad piles and then repeatedly subdivide each pile into finer groupings (or, in the lumping variant, repeatedly merge piles into coarser ones). Recording the level at which any two items first become separated yields a graded similarity measure that captures the hierarchical structure of a cultural domain, not just a single flat partition.	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.