The Human Experience of Social Transformation: Cross-Cultural Insights from Qualitative Comparative Analysis - Data

Creator(s): Matthew Peeples; Michelle Hegmon

Year: 2018

Summary

These data accompany the Hegmon and Peeples manuscript entitled "The Human Experience of Social Transformation: Cross-Cultural Insights from Qualitative Comparative Analysis"

Archaeologists and other scholars have long studied the causes of collapse and other major social transformations and debated how they can be understood. This article instead focuses on the human experience of living through those transformations, analyzing 18 transformation cases from the US Southwest and the North Atlantic. The transformations, including changes in human securities, were coded based on expert knowledge and data analyzed using Qualitative Comparative Analysis techniques. Results point to the following conclusions. Major transformations, including collapses, generally have a strong and negative impact on human security; flexible strategies that facilitate smaller scale changes may ameliorate those difficulties. Community security is strongly implicated in these changes; strong community security may minimize other negative changes. The relationships among the variables are complex and multi-causal; while social transformation may lead to declines in human securities, declining conditions of life can also push people to transform their societies. Finally, the considerable variability indicates that some societies are better able to deal with difficulties than others. These kinds of cases, in the past as well as today’s world, are worthy of much more attention.

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The Human Experience of Social Transformation: Cross-Cultural Insights from Qualitative Comparative Analysis - Data. Matthew Peeples, Michelle Hegmon. 2018 ( tDAR id: 446727) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8D79FBS

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Data Set Structure

Measurement Column
Count Column
Coded Column
Filename Column
Integration Column (has Ontology)

Table Information: LTVTPNABO

Column Name Data Type Type Category Coding Sheet Ontology Search
POWD POWD – POWER DIFFERENCES Was there an increase in power differentials, such that some people increasingly have power over others and the “others’” experience a loss of autonomy?
DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
TRD TRD – INTERREGIONAL TRADE Was there a change in interregional trade that would have made it more difficult to get important goods?
DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
CORG CORG – COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION Was the transformation associated with substantial changes in community scale social organization?
DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
HORG HORG – HOUSEHOLD ORGANIZATION Was the transformation associated with substantial changes in household scale social organization?
DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
OUT OUT - OUTSIDE INFLUENCE Was the transformation associated with increasing outside influence in the study area?
DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
DIV DIV – MATERIAL CULTURE DIVERSITY Was the transformation associated with changes in material cultural diversity (more or less) potentially marking new or shifting networks of regional scale interaction and identity?
DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
IMG IMG - IN-MIGRATION Was the transformation associated with evidence for the immigration of new individuals or groups into the region?
DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
DPOP DPOP – DEPOPULATION Was the transformation characterized by regional scale depopulation or a high degree of population loss?
DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
INST INST - INSTITUTIONAL BREAKDOWN Was the transformation characterized by a breakdown of institutions that would have been part of societal complexity?
DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Transformation Cultural transformation analyzed
VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
HEAL HEAL – HEALTH SECURITY Was there a decrease in health from causes other than nutritional deficiencies (e.g., epidemics, the plague)?
DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
VIO VIO – PERSONAL SECURITY Was there an increase in violence?
DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
COMM COMM – COMMUNITY SECURITY Did communities disintegrate or disappear?
DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
PROD PROD – ECONOMIC SECURITY, PRODUCTION Was there a change that increasingly alienated people from their means of production (e.g., land, boats, tools, irrigation networks)?
DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
ENVSEC ENVSEC - ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY Was there a decline in environmental security?
DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
FDshort FDShort – FOOD SECURITY Is there evidence of a decline in the availability of food, for at least some sector of society?
DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true

Keywords

Geographic Keywords
American Southwest • Faroe Islands • Greenland • Iceland • Mesa Verde • Mimbres • North Atlantic • Phoenix Basin • Salinas • Zuni

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