Social structure

Macmillan New York Published In Pages: ??
By Murdock, George Peter

Hypothesis

"In the presence of non-sororal polygyny, collateral relatives outside of the polygynous family tend to be terminologically differentiated from primary relatives of the same sex and generation" (144)

Test

Test NameSupportSignificanceCoefficientTail
Yule’s QSupportedp<.05.41UNKNOWN

Variables

Variable NameVariable Type OCM Term(s)
Kinship TerminologyDependentKinship Terminology
Non-sororal PolygynyIndependentPolygamy