Kinship82: Rosenberg-Kim Kinship Terms Partition Data
Description
Partitions of 15 kinship terms given by 85 female undergraduates at
Rutgers University who were asked to sort the terms into classes
on the basis of some aspect of meaning.format
A cluster ensemble of 85 hard partitions of the 15 kinship terms.source
Table 7.1 in Rosenberg (1982), with the nephew and
niece columns interchanged.Details
Rosenberg and Kim (1975) describe an experiment where perceived
similarities of the kinship terms were obtained from six different
sorting experiments. These original Rosenberg-Kim
kinship terms data were published in Arabie, Carroll and de Sarbo
(1987), and are also contained in file indclus.data in the
shell archive http://www.netlib.org/mds/indclus.shar. For one of the experiments, partitions of the terms were printed in
Rosenberg (1982). Comparison with the original data indicates that
the partition data have the nephew and niece columns
interchanged, which is corrected in the data set at hand.
References
P. Arabie and J. D. Carroll and W. S. de Sarbo (1987).
Three-way scaling and clustering.
Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
S. Rosenberg and M. P. Kim (1975).
The method of sorting as a data-gathering procedure in multivariate
research.
Multivariate Behavioral Research, 10, 489--502.
S. Rosenberg (1982).
The method of sorting in multivariate research with applications
selected from cognitive psychology and person perception.
In N. Hirschberg and L. G. Humphreys (eds.),
Multivariate Applications in the Social Sciences, 117--142.
Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.