A Cross-Cultural Summary: Marital Residence

HRAF Press • New Haven, Connecticut • Published In • Pages: ??•
By Textor, Robert B.

Abstract

Textor encapsulates cross-cultural findings on marital residence relating to cultural, environmental, psychological, and social phenomena.

Note

Marital Residence is a section of A Cross-Cultural Summary. Additionally, following each hypothesis are two sets of numbers enclosed in parenthesis: the first is the identification of the variable marital residence and the second is the other variable identification.

Samples

Sample Used Coded Data Comment
Ethnographic Atlas (EA)Previously Coded

Hypotheses (18)

HypothesisSupported
Societies that have full-time entrepreneurs present will be less likely to have obligatory marital residence (201, 136).Marginally Supported
Societies with lower rates of gender separation during adolescence will be less likely to have obligatory marital residence (201, 368).Marginally Supported
Societies where supernatural sanctions for morality have an effect on an individual's health will tend to have neolocal marital residence (203, 430).Marginally Supported
Societies where superordinate justice is prevalent will be less likely to have avunculocal, patrilocal, or virilocal marital residence (204, 138).Marginally Supported
Societies where the role of religious experts is not conducive to the development of the individual's need to achieve will tend to have avunculocal, patrilocal, or virilocal marital residence (204, 453).Supported
Societies where the status of women is inferior or subjected will tend to have patrilocal marital residence (205, 277).Marginally Supported
Societies with secret groups will tend to have avunculocal marital residence (206, 471).Supported
Societies in which females do most of the leather working will tend to have matrilocal or uxorilocal marital residence instead of ambilocal or neolocal (207, 130).Supported
Societies that permit extramarital sexual relations will tend to have matrilocal or uxorilocal marital residence instead of ambilocal or neolocal (207, 393).Marginally Supported
Societies where infanticide is absent or inferred absent will tend to have matrilocal marital residence (208, 296).Marginally Supported
Societies with adolescent peer groups will tend to have marital residence that is avunculocal, patrilocal, or virilocal instead of matrilocal or uxorilocal (209, 360).Supported
Societies in which males do most of the leather working will tend to have patrilocal marital residence (210, 130).Supported
Societies with no male initiation rites will be less likely to have virilocal marital residence over uxorilocal marital residence (211, 372).Marginally Supported
Societies with intensive or simple food agriculture will tend to have marital residence that is avunculocal over matrilocal (212, 54).Supported
Societies where there is no town or city present will be less likely to have marital residence that is avunculocal than matrilocal (212, 80).Marginally Supported
Societies where slavery is present will tend to have marital residence that is avunculocal over matrilocal (212, 110).Supported
Societies with a complete or partial segregation of adolescent males will have to have marital residence that is avunculocal over matrilocal (212, 370).Supported
Societies extremely sensitive to insult will tend to have marital residence that is avunculocal over matrilocal (212, 473).Supported
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