Results of the application of a new method of ordinal scaling to a sample of cross-cultural data are presented. The method distinguishes traits which reach a maximum level of development and then decline (D-type) from those which do not decline after reaching a maximum (P-type). Maledominant and equidominant/female-dominant societies are scaled separately and a number of P-type and D-type traits identified, some of the former having previously been found to be strong indices of sociocultural development for both types of society, the rest being specific to one type or the other.
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