Richard Paul Chaney
Biographic Data
| ID | 95958 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Paul Chaney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Chaney |
| SIGNATURE | CHANEY R P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Unthinking Social Science: The Limits of Nineteenth-Century Paradigms. Immanuel Wallerstein
Cultural Transmission from the Native's Point of View
General and Theoretical: A History of Sociological Analysis. Tom Bottomore and Robert Nisbet
Polythematic Expansion: Remarks on Needham's Polythetic Classification
Structures, Realities, and Blind Spots
In discussing the exchange between Caws and Hanson (AA, Vol. 78, 1976) the nature of the theory and reality that anthropologists must consider in dealing with social and cultural phenomena is examined. There is no objective structure in the phenomena we study, our constructs always being colored by changing conditions. The assumption of an unchanging human nature has long been an obstacle to progress in the anthropological enterprise. [semantics,…
Bridging Levels of Systemic Organization [and Comments and Reply]
The recent discussion relating the split-brain phenomenon in man to cognitive-behavioral correlates of interest to anthropologists (CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY 17 [1-3]) raises a wider issue of profound importance to the growing field of neuro-anthropology. This is the question of how to bridge levels of systemic organization. This paper provides a solution to the problem via a consideration of the constraints placed on this process by one neuroanthropo…
On Z Factors
Mighty Sifts: A Critical Appraisal of Solutions to Galton's Problem and a Partial Solution [and Comments and Replies]
Galton's problem arises from historical connection between societies, which makes the canon of statistical independence inapplicable. The resulting indeterminacy of sample size renders standard tests of statistical significance also inapplicable. In addition, replication might bias results. Seven solutions to Galton's problem have been previously offered, and we have found all of them invalid. Three of them suffer from what we have termed the "sy…
On Epistemological Presuppositions and the 'Rules of the Game
Anthropologies and Histories and Philosophies of Scientific Inquiry
Comparative Analysis and Retroductive Reasoning or Conclusions in Search of a Premise1
The entangled problems of selection of data, data patterning, and conceptual organization are discussed. The focus is on how various explicit (and implicit) postulates in the area of anthropological comparative analysis have guided various appreciations of data patterning. The spatial-temporal framework is (1) the cross- cultural data and (2) the diverse theoretical patterning of these data. The article attempts to go beyond the legacy of logical…
General and Theoretical: Sociological Theory and Philosophical Analysis. Dorothy Emmet and Alasdair Macintyre
On the Entangled Problems of Selection and Conceptual Organization1
Naroll's Interval Sift method and D'Andrade's Matched Pair method are re-examined. It is suggested that these present solutions to the Tylor-Galton problem are better viewed as discussions. The intertwined problems of selection of data, data patterning, and conceptual organization are discussed
C onceptual C ontention: A R eply 1
Sampling Methods and Interpretation of Correlation: A Comparative Analysis of Seven Cross-Cultural Samples1
The degree of agreement between the results of a comparative analysis of seven cross-cultural samples is dependent upon both the nature of the samples and the nature of the variables. All three of the smaller samples examined are demonstrated to be subject to a fatal amount of sampling error. The study incorporates the Tylor-Galton problem and makes an epistemic correlation between the concepts by postulation, historical-diffusional and functiona…
A Reply to Spiro or on the Misplaced Banderillas
Typology and Patterning: Spiro's Sample Re-Examined
It is demonstrated that the sample of 60 societies used by Melford E. Spiro in his paper "A Typology of Social Structure and the Patterning of Social Institutions: A Cross-Cultural Study" is biased. Spire's study also goes astray in the kinship-domestic domain because world-wide patterns can often obscure local clusterings of data that may show significant variations from one continent or culture area to another. It is suggested that world-wide c…
Mighty Sifts: A Critical Appraisal of Solutions to Galton's Problem and a Partial Solution [and Comments and Replies]
Galton's problem arises from historical connection between societies, which makes the canon of statistical independence inapplicable. The resulting indeterminacy of sample size renders standard tests of statistical significance also inapplicable. In addition, replication might bias results. Seven solutions to Galton's problem have been previously offered, and we have found all of them invalid. Three of them suffer from what we have termed the "sy…
Sampling Methods and Interpretation of Correlation: A Comparative Analysis of Seven Cross-Cultural Samples1
The degree of agreement between the results of a comparative analysis of seven cross-cultural samples is dependent upon both the nature of the samples and the nature of the variables. All three of the smaller samples examined are demonstrated to be subject to a fatal amount of sampling error. The study incorporates the Tylor-Galton problem and makes an epistemic correlation between the concepts by postulation, historical-diffusional and functiona…
Typology and Patterning: Spiro's Sample Re-Examined
It is demonstrated that the sample of 60 societies used by Melford E. Spiro in his paper "A Typology of Social Structure and the Patterning of Social Institutions: A Cross-Cultural Study" is biased. Spire's study also goes astray in the kinship-domestic domain because world-wide patterns can often obscure local clusterings of data that may show significant variations from one continent or culture area to another. It is suggested that world-wide c…
C onceptual C ontention: A R eply 1
Bridging Levels of Systemic Organization [and Comments and Reply]
The recent discussion relating the split-brain phenomenon in man to cognitive-behavioral correlates of interest to anthropologists (CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY 17 [1-3]) raises a wider issue of profound importance to the growing field of neuro-anthropology. This is the question of how to bridge levels of systemic organization. This paper provides a solution to the problem via a consideration of the constraints placed on this process by one neuroanthropo…
Comparative Analysis and Retroductive Reasoning or Conclusions in Search of a Premise1
The entangled problems of selection of data, data patterning, and conceptual organization are discussed. The focus is on how various explicit (and implicit) postulates in the area of anthropological comparative analysis have guided various appreciations of data patterning. The spatial-temporal framework is (1) the cross- cultural data and (2) the diverse theoretical patterning of these data. The article attempts to go beyond the legacy of logical…
On the Entangled Problems of Selection and Conceptual Organization1
Naroll's Interval Sift method and D'Andrade's Matched Pair method are re-examined. It is suggested that these present solutions to the Tylor-Galton problem are better viewed as discussions. The intertwined problems of selection of data, data patterning, and conceptual organization are discussed
Structures, Realities, and Blind Spots
In discussing the exchange between Caws and Hanson (AA, Vol. 78, 1976) the nature of the theory and reality that anthropologists must consider in dealing with social and cultural phenomena is examined. There is no objective structure in the phenomena we study, our constructs always being colored by changing conditions. The assumption of an unchanging human nature has long been an obstacle to progress in the anthropological enterprise. [semantics,…
On Z Factors
On Epistemological Presuppositions and the 'Rules of the Game
A Reply to Spiro or on the Misplaced Banderillas
A Reply to Spiro or on the Misplaced Banderillas
Typology and Patterning: Spiro's Sample Re-Examined
It is demonstrated that the sample of 60 societies used by Melford E. Spiro in his paper "A Typology of Social Structure and the Patterning of Social Institutions: A Cross-Cultural Study" is biased. Spire's study also goes astray in the kinship-domestic domain because world-wide patterns can often obscure local clusterings of data that may show significant variations from one continent or culture area to another. It is suggested that world-wide c…
Sampling Methods and Interpretation of Correlation: A Comparative Analysis of Seven Cross-Cultural Samples1
The degree of agreement between the results of a comparative analysis of seven cross-cultural samples is dependent upon both the nature of the samples and the nature of the variables. All three of the smaller samples examined are demonstrated to be subject to a fatal amount of sampling error. The study incorporates the Tylor-Galton problem and makes an epistemic correlation between the concepts by postulation, historical-diffusional and functiona…
C onceptual C ontention: A R eply 1
On the Entangled Problems of Selection and Conceptual Organization1
Naroll's Interval Sift method and D'Andrade's Matched Pair method are re-examined. It is suggested that these present solutions to the Tylor-Galton problem are better viewed as discussions. The intertwined problems of selection of data, data patterning, and conceptual organization are discussed
Comparative Analysis and Retroductive Reasoning or Conclusions in Search of a Premise1
The entangled problems of selection of data, data patterning, and conceptual organization are discussed. The focus is on how various explicit (and implicit) postulates in the area of anthropological comparative analysis have guided various appreciations of data patterning. The spatial-temporal framework is (1) the cross- cultural data and (2) the diverse theoretical patterning of these data. The article attempts to go beyond the legacy of logical…
General and Theoretical: Sociological Theory and Philosophical Analysis. Dorothy Emmet and Alasdair Macintyre
Anthropologies and Histories and Philosophies of Scientific Inquiry
Mighty Sifts: A Critical Appraisal of Solutions to Galton's Problem and a Partial Solution [and Comments and Replies]
Galton's problem arises from historical connection between societies, which makes the canon of statistical independence inapplicable. The resulting indeterminacy of sample size renders standard tests of statistical significance also inapplicable. In addition, replication might bias results. Seven solutions to Galton's problem have been previously offered, and we have found all of them invalid. Three of them suffer from what we have termed the "sy…
On Epistemological Presuppositions and the 'Rules of the Game
On Z Factors
Bridging Levels of Systemic Organization [and Comments and Reply]
The recent discussion relating the split-brain phenomenon in man to cognitive-behavioral correlates of interest to anthropologists (CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY 17 [1-3]) raises a wider issue of profound importance to the growing field of neuro-anthropology. This is the question of how to bridge levels of systemic organization. This paper provides a solution to the problem via a consideration of the constraints placed on this process by one neuroanthropo…
Polythematic Expansion: Remarks on Needham's Polythetic Classification
Structures, Realities, and Blind Spots
In discussing the exchange between Caws and Hanson (AA, Vol. 78, 1976) the nature of the theory and reality that anthropologists must consider in dealing with social and cultural phenomena is examined. There is no objective structure in the phenomena we study, our constructs always being colored by changing conditions. The assumption of an unchanging human nature has long been an obstacle to progress in the anthropological enterprise. [semantics,…
General and Theoretical: A History of Sociological Analysis. Tom Bottomore and Robert Nisbet
Cultural Transmission from the Native's Point of View
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Unthinking Social Science: The Limits of Nineteenth-Century Paradigms. Immanuel Wallerstein
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