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A Technique of Formalizing and Testing Models of Behavior: Two Models of Ojibwa Restraint 1
Author(s) -
HAY THOMAS H.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1973.75.3.02a00050
Subject(s) - construct (python library) , field (mathematics) , computer science , sociology , data science , psychology , mathematics , programming language , pure mathematics
Social scientists often construct informal models of the behavior of typical members of a society or of members of a social category, such as “peasants.” A technique of formalizing such models in terms of mathematical decision theory is illustrated with informal models offered by Hallowell and Freud. Quantitative implications of the models are compared with field data from two groups of Ojibwa.