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- "Although food production as well as food gathering occurs in classless societies, social stratification rarely occurs without food production" (1114)Spiro, Melford E. - A typology of social structure and the patterning of social institutions: a..., 1965 - 2 Variables
This article attempts to construct an empirically-based typology of social structure. Marital structure, government, food production, and stratification are among the factors considered.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "Although stratification as well as classlessness occur with minimum government, maximum government rarely occurs in the absence of social stratification" (1114)Spiro, Melford E. - A typology of social structure and the patterning of social institutions: a..., 1965 - 2 Variables
This article attempts to construct an empirically-based typology of social structure. Marital structure, government, food production, and stratification are among the factors considered.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Spiro stated that food production and social stratification jointly comprise a necessary condition for maximum government. Although there is a significant relationship between the three variables (economics, government and stratification), no statement about necessary conditions can be made (1465, 1466)Chaney, Richard P. - Typology and patterning: Spiro's sample re-examined, 1966 - 3 Variables
This article suggests that Spiro's (1965) study on typology of social structure used a biased cross-cultural sample and possibly obscured regional patterns in data. Hypotheses related to marital structure, descent rules, food production and social stratification are tested.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "Monogamy occurs primarily in a kinship-domestic configuration characterized by bilateral [descent]-independent [family]-small [household]" (1112)Spiro, Melford E. - A typology of social structure and the patterning of social institutions: a..., 1965 - 2 Variables
This article attempts to construct an empirically-based typology of social structure. Marital structure, government, food production, and stratification are among the factors considered.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "There is a significant relationship between [the variables food production and social stratification and between food gathering and classlessness] but no statement about necessary conditions can be made" (1465)Chaney, Richard P. - Typology and patterning: Spiro's sample re-examined, 1966 - 2 Variables
This article suggests that Spiro's (1965) study on typology of social structure used a biased cross-cultural sample and possibly obscured regional patterns in data. Hypotheses related to marital structure, descent rules, food production and social stratification are tested.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "Food production and social stratification do not, jointly, constitute a sufficient condition for the existence of monogamy" (1463)Chaney, Richard P. - Typology and patterning: Spiro's sample re-examined, 1966 - 3 Variables
This article suggests that Spiro's (1965) study on typology of social structure used a biased cross-cultural sample and possibly obscured regional patterns in data. Hypotheses related to marital structure, descent rules, food production and social stratification are tested.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "[There is a] decline in the proportion of cases of 'government slight or nil' and a rise in the proportion of cases where 'tribal government' is found as we ascend the economic grades" (52)Hobhouse, L. T. - The material culture and social institutions of the simpler peoples: an ess..., 1915 - 2 Variables
An early cross-cultural study that sought to establish correlations between "stages" of economic culture and a variety of different social and political institutions, such as form of government and justice, marriage and kinship, and behaviors during warfare.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "We have then clear evidence of an advance in organised government accompanying economic development"(51)Hobhouse, L. T. - The material culture and social institutions of the simpler peoples: an ess..., 1915 - 2 Variables
An early cross-cultural study that sought to establish correlations between "stages" of economic culture and a variety of different social and political institutions, such as form of government and justice, marriage and kinship, and behaviors during warfare.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "The greater the initial satisfaction of the oral drive the greater the degree to which supernatural nurturance is contingent upon the employment of compulsive ritual" (200)Spiro, Melford E. - A cross-cultural study of some supernatural beliefs, 1967 - 3 Variables
This article examines the relationship between child training and supernatural beliefs. The authors develop a schema delineating the role of the supernatural in nurturance and punishment; ten hypotheses associating the role of the supernatural with various child training practices are tested. Several are confirmed.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "When technology, as measured by subsistence economy is held constant . . . [and we] cross tabulate familial complexity with . . . size of community . . . [and with] political complexity, gammas are significantly positive for low levels of technology and nonsignificant for higher levels" (909)Blumberg, Rae Lesser - Societal complexity and familial complexity: evidence for the curvilinear h..., 1972 - 4 Variables
This study investigates the relationship between societal complexity and familial complexity. Results suggest that the relationship is somewhat curvilinear; that is, in simpler societies more societal complexity is associated with a larger familial system, but the most developed societies have smaller familial systems. The demographic, economic, and politcal correlates of maximum family size are discussed.
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