Consensus Analysis

A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 171-190

  Borgatti, Stephen P ^a   Halgin, Daniel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstract model, explaining consensus model with a simplified, artificial context; Consensus analysis; Consensus analysis both a theory and a method; Consensus analysis, way of conceptualizing and coping with individual variability; Consensus model, a powerful theoretical perspective and a very useful analysis methodology; Folk epistemological systems relying on connection between agreement and truth; Methodology and empirical illustration; Methods, useful in settings across multiple disciplines; Model in anthropological context; Using simple model, relationship between agreement and knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873425188     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444394931.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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