Consensus, Dissensus, and Guttman Scales

The Namoluk Case

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3013380
AutoresMac Marshall, Mark Borthwick (0000-0002-3249-1508)
Ano1974
Volume30
Fascículo4
Páginas252-270
Data de publicação1974-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Anthropological Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0091-7710 • E-ISSN: 2153-3806
EditoraUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/jar.30.4.3629717
OpenAlexW2335095757
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas7

Separate Guttman scales are developed for each of 109 respondents to a political attitude questionnaire on Namoluk Atoll, Micronesia. These scales are compared to examine the amount of agreement or disagreement among informants concerning the rank order of "difficulty" of the eight political offices that comprise local government. A master scale that sorts individuals into groups on the basis of offices they "pass" is created and the scale types of particular individuals are correlated with personal attributes they possess. This scale is shown to be a reasonably accurate predictor of election outcomes and of the category of persons who will run for which offices on the atoll. Considerable attention is devoted to how one determines reliably whether his data meet the criteria for scalability, and methodological devices are suggested for use by future workers that will largely eliminate the frequent misuse of the Guttman scaling technique in anthropology

Atoll · Cartography · Developmental psychology · Economics · Geography · Government (linguistics) · Guttman scale · Order (exchange) · Political science · Politics · Rank (graph theory) · Scale (ratio) · Sociology · Computational and Text Analysis Methods · Disaster Management and Resilience · Law · Mathematics · Psychology · Social Psychology · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies