Societal Complexity
An Empirical Test of a Typology of Societies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2204461 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Linton C Freeman, Robert F Winch |
| Year | 1957 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 461-466 |
| Publication date | 1957-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/222075 |
| OpenAlex | W2063919203 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 51 |
| References cited | 1 |
Does the concept of societal complexity refer to a single dimension? Data have been gathered from a sample of forty-eight societies and scored according to Guttman's scalogram analysis. Six out of eight variables tested vary systematically and constitute an acceptable scale. This is empirical evidence for the relevance of societal complexity. The study demonstrates a technique for testing polar ideal types which allows the investigator to determine whether or not they are empirically based
Developmental psychology · Dimension (graph theory) · Econometrics · Empirical research · Guttman scale · Political science · Relevance (law) · Sample (material) · Sociology · Statistics · Test (biology) · Typology · Community Health and Development · Cultural Differences and Values · Mathematics · Psychology · Social Capital and Networks · Social Psychology
Differentiation of Society
Privacy, Publicity, Deviance and Control
Social Structure and Games
Punishment and Social Organization
Legal Evolution and the Durkheim Hypothesis
Contact, Change and Industrialization in a Network of Mexican Villages
Societal Complexity and Familial Complexity
Evolution und Geschichte
The social psychology of cross-cultural relations
Scale Analysis as an Instrument for the Study of Cultural Evolution
Komplexität
Worldwide cross-cultural studies and their relevance for archaeology
Festschrift for Linton C. Freeman
Latin American typology
Evolution und Geschichte
Gambling Across Cultures
The Quality of Administration
Sampling Utilized in 50 Cross-Cultural Studies
A Cross-Cultural Method for Predicting Nonmaterial Traits in Archeology
Cultural Dimensions
Linked Pair Alignments for the HRAF Quality Control Sample Universe
Legal Evolution
Female Status and Cultural Evolution
Problems of Measurement in Cross-Cultural Research Using Secondary Data
The Substantive Contributions of Worldwide Cross-Cultural Studies Using Secondary Data
The Weight of the Past
The Scaling of Gaming
Family Changes Over the Long Term
A Guttman-Based Approach to Identifying Cumulativeness Applied to Chimpanzee Culture
Cultural Complexity
Cross-Cultural Research as a Rosetta Stone for Discovering the Original Homelands of Protolanguage Groups
Comparing Cultures and Comparing Processes
Cultural Complexity Revisited
Natural Selection in Cultural Evolution
An Index of Sociocultural Development Applicable to Precivilized Societies
Borrowing Versus Migration as Selection Factors in Cultural Evolution
The “Organizational Development” of International Organizations
A Developmental Thesis of Legal Cultures
From Restitutive Law to Repressive Law Durkheim'sThe Division of Labor in Societyre-visited
Societal Research Archives System
Community Differentiation and the Fallacy of Intenectorial Causation
Universal Patterns in Cultural Evolution
Religion and Social Structure in The Division of Labor
On the Entangled Problems of Selection and Conceptual Organization1
What Have We Learned from Cross-Cultural Surveys?1
A Dimensional Model of Multilinear Sociocultural Evolution
Cultural Dimensions
Oaths, Autonomic Ordeals, and Power1
Measuring the Development of Kinship Terminologies
Testing Typological Hypotheses
Structural Tightness and Cross-Cultural Research
| Unique citing works | 51 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 1962 - 2012 (51) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 44 |