Types of family and The social system and the family

Comparative Family Systems Houghton Mifflin Boston Published In Pages: 12-60
By Nimkoff, M. F.

Hypothesis

"…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)

Test

Test NameSupportSignificanceCoefficientTail
Chi squareSupportedp<.001UNKNOWNUNKNOWN

Variables

Variable NameVariable Type OCM Term(s)
Inheritance PatternsAssociationInheritance
Residence PatternsAssociationResidence