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- "Complexity of techniques in subsistence economy . . . favors the development of restrictive norms of premarital sex behavior" (402)Murdock, George Peter - Cultural correlates of the regulation of premarital sex behavior, 1964 - 2 Variables
This chapter examines the variables that favor restrictive premarital sex norms. Findings indicate that subsistence economy, technology, population size, political integration, belief in a high god, and residence are all correlated with premarital sex norms.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "Societies with local communities having large populations . . . are characterized by restrictive sexual norms. . . . Where local groups are small in size . . . norms of premarital sex behavior tend strongly to be permissive" (404)Murdock, George Peter - Cultural correlates of the regulation of premarital sex behavior, 1964 - 2 Variables
This chapter examines the variables that favor restrictive premarital sex norms. Findings indicate that subsistence economy, technology, population size, political integration, belief in a high god, and residence are all correlated with premarital sex norms.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "Complex . . . technological activities, metal working with the application of fire . . . and weaving (with the use of loom or frame) [favors the development of restrictive premarital sex behavior]" (402)Murdock, George Peter - Cultural correlates of the regulation of premarital sex behavior, 1964 - 3 Variables
This chapter examines the variables that favor restrictive premarital sex norms. Findings indicate that subsistence economy, technology, population size, political integration, belief in a high god, and residence are all correlated with premarital sex norms.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "The evidence . . . clearly demonstrates an association between norms of premarital sex behavior and beliefs concerning a high god" (406-407)Murdock, George Peter - Cultural correlates of the regulation of premarital sex behavior, 1964 - 2 Variables
This chapter examines the variables that favor restrictive premarital sex norms. Findings indicate that subsistence economy, technology, population size, political integration, belief in a high god, and residence are all correlated with premarital sex norms.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "[There is] modest support [for] the widely held assumption that patrilocal residence and the features commonly associated there with . . . Produce a situation conducive to an insistence on virginity in unmarried women" (407)Murdock, George Peter - Cultural correlates of the regulation of premarital sex behavior, 1964 - 2 Variables
This chapter examines the variables that favor restrictive premarital sex norms. Findings indicate that subsistence economy, technology, population size, political integration, belief in a high god, and residence are all correlated with premarital sex norms.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - As societies become more complex, rules against premarital sex become more restrictive" (17).Goethals, George W. - Factors affecting permissive and nonpermissive rules regarding premarital sex, 1971 - 2 Variables
The paper presents the preliminary findings of pilot studies testing the factors affecting the variation in rules regarding premarital sex cross-culturally. Only the trends emerging from the pilot studies are discussed. No findings are conclusive.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "We should therefore expect a widespread tendency for sex relations to be extended to the spouse's sibling of the same sex, and for the same persons to be preferred in secondary marriages" (269-270)Murdock, George Peter - Social structure, 1949 - 2 Variables
This book is a comprehensive analysis of many aspects of social structure including family, clan, community, kinship terminology, social organization, regulation of sex, incest taboos, and sexual choice.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "A relative eligible for marriage is likely to be a permissable sex object in advance of marriage, whereas a relative with whom marriage is forbidden tends to be ineligible also for premarital relations" (271-272)Murdock, George Peter - Social structure, 1949 - 2 Variables
This book is a comprehensive analysis of many aspects of social structure including family, clan, community, kinship terminology, social organization, regulation of sex, incest taboos, and sexual choice.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - ". . . patrilineal institutions [are] associated with the presence of traits indicative of higher civilization, matrilineal institutions with their absence. [Some of these are:] agriculture, [animal] domestication, writing, pottery, weaving, metals, [labor] specialization, money, [social] classes, government [and] priesthood . . ." (467)Murdock, George Peter - Correlations of matrilineal and patrilineal institutions, 1937 - 12 Variables
This chapter investigates the various socioeconomic variables that are associated with matrilineal and patrilineal institutions. Several variables were found to correlate significantly with matrilineal and patrilineal institutions.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - In societies where there are achieveable status and social positions (as opposed to caste systems), sanctions against premarital sex are more severe (17).Goethals, George W. - Factors affecting permissive and nonpermissive rules regarding premarital sex, 1971 - 2 Variables
The paper presents the preliminary findings of pilot studies testing the factors affecting the variation in rules regarding premarital sex cross-culturally. Only the trends emerging from the pilot studies are discussed. No findings are conclusive.
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