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Culture Profiles and Emphases

1958; University of Chicago Press; Volume: 63; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1086/222298

1537-5390

Edward Rose, G. K. Willoughby,

Cultural Differences and Values

A composite culture profile can be constructed displaying the amount of information available on each of the major culture categories in the Human Relations Area File. The records of twenty cultures are here compared with this composite profile in order to distinguish deviations of emphasis on various activities in each of the cultures. Working with this variety of emphases, we have stipulated, through scalogram analysis, those characteristics by which the cultures can be consistentlycompared. Further, by examining the extent to which and the ways in which the twenty cultures possess scalable features, we obtained rankings and typologies of cultures. Modern cultures seem to exhibit a correlation between extent and type of emphasis on modern categories of culture. No corresponding correlation between extent and type of primitive emphasis seems to hold for primitive cultures.