Relation of child training to subsistence economy

American Anthropologist • Published In 1959 • Pages: 51-63 •

By Barry III, Herbert, Child, Irvin L. , Bacon, Margaret K.

Hypothesis

Societies with high accumulation of food resources will have predominant pressure toward compliance, whereas societies with low accumulation will have predominant pressure toward assertion (58).

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Mann-Whitney U-Test	Supported	p<.001	.94	Two-tailed

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Accumulation Of Food Resources	`UNKNOWN`	Diet
Pressure Toward Compliance Or Assertion	`UNKNOWN`	Socialization

Related Hypotheses

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Barry III, Herbert	1959	Food accumulation will be more highly correlated with compliance than over variables such as size of settlement, degree of political integration, social stratification, greater part of women in predominant subsistence activity, polygyny, bride price and bride service, unilineal descent (59).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Barry III, Herbert	1969	"[Societies] with stronger pressure toward compliance rather than assertion in child training generally also had greater emphasis on food producing than on food collecting in the subsistence economy" (31)	Partially supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Barry III, Herbert	1968	"In . . . societies in which alcohol was used aboriginally, frequency of drunkenness was . . . closely related to [childhood pressure toward compliance--a childhood dependency measure]"(461)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Child, Irvin L.	1965	"Societies with sex differences [in drinking] tend to have a nomadic or rural settlement pattern, economy based on hunting, less accumulation of food resources, stronger child training toward achievement and more punishment of child for failure to achieve" (59)	Supported	6	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Bacon, Margaret K.	1965	"Pressures toward achievement and self-reliance would be associated with frequent drunkenness" (38)	Supported	8	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author