Four Galore? The overlap between Mary Douglas' grid-group typology and other highly cited social science classifications

These are the data of a research project undertaken for two purposes: (1) to investigate to which extent the grid-group typology of social and political life developed by British anthropologist Mary Douglas overlaps with other influential classifications proposed in the social sciences during the last fifty years; and (2) to thus test the theory of sociocultural viability that has been built on Douglas’s typology in a novel manner