Social structure

"Patrilocal and matri-patrilocal residence tend to be associated with kinship terminology of the bifurcate merging type" (150)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Yule’s Q	Supported	p<.001	.62	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Kinship Terminology (bifurcate Merging)	Dependent	Kinship Terminology
Residence	Independent	Residence

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Murdock, George Peter	1949	"Matrilocal and avunculocal residence tend to be associated with kinship terminology of the bifurcate merging type" (149)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Murdock, George Peter	1949	"Clans, whether patrilocal, matrilocal, or avunculocal, tend to be associated with bifurcate merging kinship terminology" (154)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Murdock, George Peter	1949	"Patrilocal and matri-patrilocal residence, because of their association with non-sororal polygyny, tend to be accompanied by kinship terminology of the bifurcate collateral type" (151)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Murdock, George Peter	1947	". . . unilinear descent . . . may suffice to produce bifurcate merging" (59)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Murdock, George Peter	1947	". . . [there is] a strong tendency for bifurcate merging to be associated with exogamy and to be lacking in the absence of exogamy" (59)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author