Social structure

Murdock, George Peter

Social structure

Macmillan • New York • Published In 1949 • Pages: ??•

By Murdock, George Peter

Hypothesis

"In the presence of sororal polygyny, terms for primary relatives tend to be extended, within the same sex and generation, to their collateral relatives through females" (141)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Yule’s Q	Not Supported	above .10	.34	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Kinship Terminology	Dependent	Kinship Terminology
Sororal Polygyny	Independent	Polygamy

Related Hypotheses

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Murdock, George Peter	1949	"In the presence of non-sororal polygyny, collateral relatives outside of the polygynous family tend to be terminologically differentiated from primary relatives of the same sex and generation" (144)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Aberle, David F.	1961	[In matrilineal systems] "The relationship of sororal and limited sororal polygyny with matrilocality, and of general and non-sororal polygyny with virilocality is strong and significant. . . . Also . . . the association of general and non-sororal polygyny with avunculocality and sororal and limited sororal polygyny is even stronger" (719)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Low, Bobbi S.	1990	Pathogen stress will be positively associated with non-sororal polygyny (p. 334).	`UNKNOWN`	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Murdock, George Peter	1949	"non-sororal polygyny tends to be associated with kinship terminology of the bifurcate collateral type" (146)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Flinn, Mark V.	1986	Sororal polygyny will be associated with cross-cousin marriages (236).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author

Social structure

Macmillan • New York • Published In 1949 • Pages: ??• Cite

By Murdock, George Peter

Hypothesis

Test

Variables

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Macmillan • New York • Published In 1949 • Pages: ??•