Evaluative grading

Culture has ponderable values as well as imponderable, and the ponderable ones can be measured with objective, meaninful yardsticks. A Culture is a means to an end: the security and continuity of life. Some kinds of Culture are better means of providing food than hunting and gathering, also some Cultures have more effective means of coping with desease than others and this superiority is expressed mathematically in death rates. It should be noted this is not equivalent to saying that man is happier or that the dignity of the individual is greater in an industrialized or agricultural sociocultural system than in one supported by human labour alone and sustained wholly by wild foods.