Bilateral kinship: centripetal and centrifugal types of organization

Journal of Marriage and the Family • Vol/Iss. 37 • Published In • Pages: 871-888 •
By Farber, Bernard

Abstract

This paper describes a typology which is intended to indicate the kinds of family and kinship structures associated with the conflicting requirements of cohesion and differentiation of broader social structures.

Samples

Sample Used Coded Data Comment
Standard Cross Cultural Sample (SCCS)Other Researchers

Hypotheses (7)

HypothesisSupported
Descent, marital residence, and kinship structure will be related to the degree of leniency in child socialization (873).Supported
Presence of cognatic kinship structurs will be related to autonomy in early childhood (874).Supported
Regime type will be associated with marital stability (878).Supported
The presence of factional regimes will be related to the clustering of relatives in the household and community (879).Supported
Kinship norms (centripetal vs centrifugal) will be associated with form of inheritance (880).Supported
Linear nomenclature for uncles will be associated with succession, financial consideration at marriage, marital residence, and household type (881).Supported
Regime type will be related to kinship structure (884).Partially supported
Documents and Hypotheses Filed By: Jessie Cohen  Megan Farrer