″ Ideally I’d like to find what the common factors are rather than having it be too particular to one community or another”
If you’d like to find dominance traits that are present in humans across-cultures, as in being universal, i don’t think topics on dominance behavior of primates are such a bad idea. Such studies find the basic mechanisms behind the dominance behavior, which for the most part are very applicable to human behavior. The mechanisms, such as social status, power and ressources, are just hidden behind our cultural history.
″ Ideally I’d like to find what the common factors are rather than having it be too particular to one community or another”
If you’d like to find dominance traits that are present in humans across-cultures, as in being universal, i don’t think topics on dominance behavior of primates are such a bad idea. Such studies find the basic mechanisms behind the dominance behavior, which for the most part are very applicable to human behavior. The mechanisms, such as social status, power and ressources, are just hidden behind our cultural history.
Did i state the obvious or was it useful?