"Big Five" traits of cultures?
Academic psychology has a few different frameworks where human psychology is described as some
The "big five" or "five factors" is a framework in academic psychology that measures and quantitatively describes human personalities. It models personality as being the sum of variations across the five factors. Researchers arrived at these five factors by statistically analyzing large sets of personality descriptions. They ran dimensionality reductions the data. For example, we might observe that if someone is described as "energetic", they're less likely to be described as "reserved"---and if you keep finding correlations like that, eventually you'll boil all variations down to a minimal set of "dimensions".
Has anything similar been done for entire cultures? Is there something like the five factors for cultures? Some possible "dimensions" that come to mind include social dominance, religiosity, and aggressiveness, but I have no idea if these are actually among some minimal set.
