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Cultural models and belief systems: detection and quantitative assessment of the threshold of shared collective knowledge
(2017) Maltseva, Kateryna
Researching collectively shared belief systems is one of the central tasks of social science. The goal of this article is to outline the quantitative options available to researchers of cultural models and, more generally, those options that can be used for measuring sharing due to culture. I begin by laying out major characteristics of cultural models and stress their definitive features that can guide the researchers in their selection of fitting measurement techniques and analytic procedures. Then I briefly discuss the intellectual history of the cultural models theoretical framework relevant to the emergence of the existing methodological diversity in this research niche. I consequently consider the internal properties of cultural models and review the corresponding methodologies currently in use for their elicitation and ethnographic interpretation. I evaluate their respective advantages and comment on usefulness of various quantitative options (both as an end product and as a stage in more complex integrative designs) in research on shared collective knowledge.