" 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?
Think it will depend on what your other courses are. If you lean toward the mathemathical arena, then stuff like psychology or other social studies courses will give you an alternative to the way you think now. I have an idea that being a precise thinker is about being balanced in your areas of expertise. Anyway, it kind of depends on how you define precise thinking.