Drinking

Associated Documents (2)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
McClelland, David C.A cross-cultural study of folk-tale content and drinking
Kalin, RudolphThe relationship between use of alcohol and thematic content of folktales in primitive societies

Associated Hypotheses (12)

Main AuthorHypothesis
McClelland, David C."Horton's subsistence anxiety hypothesis: . . . tribes which drink a lot worry more about food and being hungry" (59)
McClelland, David C.". . . sober societies tend to think more in terms of hierarchy (title, vertical space, and old age) and social control (scheduling and activity inhibition)" (60)
McClelland, David C."Barry, Bacon and Child dependency hypothesis: . . . people in drinking societies are basically dependent [on others]" (60)
McClelland, David C.Social drinking will correlate positively with the fantasy themes of sex, aggression, and change of state.
McClelland, David C."…alcoholic societies may show some preoccupations in the oral mode" (62)
McClelland, David C."Frequency of achievement responses in childhood is . . . significantly associated with drinking . . . but curiously enough so is frequency of obedience. . . . The two are unrelated so that each contributes independently and significantly . . . [to] drinking" (67)
McClelland, David C."Drinking societies use more collateral terms such as aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, and fewer terms signifying the parent-child hierarchy" (69)
McClelland, David C."Low male solidarity, non-lineal descent (i.e., bilateral descent), and lack of a jurisdictional hierarchy at the [extra] local level [indicators of low structural differentiation] are all related to each other and to drinking" (64)
Kalin, RudolphThe thematic tag "hunting" will be correlated with drinking, that is,"in societies with heavy drinking, themes of hunting are prominent in folktales" (582)
Kalin, RudolphThe thematic tag "fear" will be correlated with drinking, that is,"the more direct references to fear appear in the folktales of a society, the less likely its members are to engage in heavy drinking" (581)
Kalin, RudolphThe thematic tag "domestic-man" will be correlated with drinking, that is,"in heavy drinking societies males in folktales are frequently seen in domestic contexts . . . [they] have a basic feminine identity" (583)
Kalin, RudolphThe folktale thematic tag of "change" will be correlated with drinking

Associated OCMs

  1. alcoholic beverages
  2. alcoholism and drug addiction