Types of family and The social system and the family

The author uses a world-wide sample of societies to address variation in famiy organization and the economic and social factors to which it relates.

This report refers to two chapters in the larger work.

Samples
Sample Used	Coded Data	Comment
World Ethnographic Sample (WES)	Other Researchers

Hypotheses (4)
Hypothesis	Supported
"[Residence and descent are highly correlated.] Nearly all patrilineal cultures are patrilocal or matri-patrilocal. . . . If matrilineal, societies may be patrilocal or matrilocal, with the latter predominating. . . . If the rule is double descent, the cultures are almost exclusively patrilocal" (24)	Supported
There will be a significant relationship between type of descent and mode of subsistence (40).	Supported
"…there is a relationship between residence patterns and division of labor by sex. Patrilocal patterns tend to be associated with economic dominance by males, matrilocal . . . by females" (42)	Supported
"…residence is associated with inheritance of property. In patrilocal societies inheritance is largely patrilineal and in matrilocal societies, matrilineal, although in the latter the degree of association is not as high as in the former" (42)	Supported

Documents and Hypotheses Filed By: mas Tahlisa Brougham