A cross-cultural test of the proximity hypothesis

"The proximity hypothesis suggests that bifurcation should be positively associated with the degree of community exogamy" (255)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Gamma	Not Supported	p<.10	-.13	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Degree Of Terminological Bifurcation	`UNKNOWN`	Kinship Terminology
Exogamy	`UNKNOWN`	Residence

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Witkowski, Stanley	1972	"The residential proximity hypothesis predicts that a society's degree of terminological bifurcation will covary positively with degree of family extension" (253)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Maxwell, Robert J.	1967	Penetrable walls will be more likely than impenetrable walls with increased proximity to the equator.	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Witkowski, Stanley	1972	". . . the degree of extended family organization--from large extended, to small extended, to nonextended--should be positively associated with the degree of collateral [kin terminology] merging" (253)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Witkowski, Stanley	1972	"The residential proximity hypothesis suggests that institutionalized avoidance practices should be more likely to occur when the avoiding parties are living in the same household than when they are just living in the same community." [Mother-in-law/son-in-law avoidance increases with the degree of household co-residence] (249)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Witkowski, Stanley	1972	". . . residential propinquity influences a society's kin avoidance. . . . [There is an] association between father-in-law/daughter-in-law avoidance and [their] degree of community coresidence" (243, 248)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author