Using free-listing technique to develop measures of group consensus: the case of language choice in Ukraine
Journal: NaUKMA Research Papers Sociology
Year: 2022

Free-listing is a useful qualitative technique suitable for exploring how groups of individuals think about a cultural domain and define its focal features. This tool is also well-adapted for identifying shared collective priorities which makes free-listing a helpful tool for ethnographers and students of culture who are often lacking this important information at the beginning of the project or have no fast way of acquiring it by other ethnographic means. One of its advantages includes its abil