Social structure

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

Hypothesis

". . . any relative called by a kinship term that is also applied to a kinsman who is genealogically closer to Ego, and with whom marriage or sex relations are forbidden, tends to be placed in a similar taboo category" (311)

Test

Test NameSupportSignificanceCoefficientTail
Yule’s QSupportedp<.10.64UNKNOWN

Variables

Variable NameVariable Type OCM Term(s)
Incest Taboo CategoryAssociationKinship Regulation Of Sex
Kinship TerminologyAssociationKinship Terminology