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The task of inferring cultural models from lengthy texts or transcripts of intensive interviews is highly dependent on the representativeness of the sample of consultants, the researcher's command of the language, and his or her ability to detect themes through iterative analysis. We recommend using scenarios and systematic interviewing to verify and refine those inferred themes, schema, or cultural models. Scenarios are brief narratives derived from observed or reported events. A set of scenarios can be used to elicit judgments concerning key themes of inferred cultural models. This technique is illustrated with a battery of twenty-one scenarios used, along with consensus analysis, to describe identity profiles for samples from Wales, Scotland, and Northeast England. Scenarios can be used to document claimed identity (what we are like) and attributed identity (what group X is like) and to discover similarities and differences across ethnic or national group boundaries.

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