Social structure

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

Hypothesis

"In the presence of bilinear kin groups, kinship terms tend to be extended to all relatives who belong to the same section or subsection" (170)

Test

Test NameSupportSignificanceCoefficientTail
Yule’s QSupportedp<.001.99UNKNOWN

Variables

Variable NameVariable Type OCM Term(s)
Bilinear Kin Groups (relatives Of Same Section)IndependentBilineal Kin Groups
Kinship Terminology (sowimo)DependentKinship Terminology

Related Hypotheses

Main AuthorHypothesis
Murdock, George Peter"In the presence of exogamous matrilineal or patrilineal lineages, sibs, phratries, or moieties, separate kinship terms tend to be applied to comparable relatives of the same generation who are linked to ego by connecting relatives of different sex" (163)
Murdock, George Peter"In the presence of exogamous matrilineal or patrilineal lineages, sibs, phratries, or moieties, terms for lineal relatives tend to be extended, within the same sex and generation, to collateral kinsmen who would be affiliated with them under either unilineal rule of descent" (162)
Murdock, George Peter"When secondary or tertiary relatives of any kin-type are called by a kinship term used to denote a primary relative, the daughters of such secondary or tertiary relatives tend to be called by the same kinship term as the daughter of the primary relative" (139)
Murdock, George Peter". . . matrilineal extension [of incest taboos] is strongly associated with the presence of matrilineal kin groups, patrilineal extension with patrilineal kin groups, and extension in both directions with the presence of double descent" (307)
Murdock, George Peter"In the presence of exogamous matri-lineages, matri-sibs, or matri-moieties, unless exogamous patrilineal kin groups are also present, kinship terms for FaSi tend to extended to FaSiDa, and those for BrDa to MoBroDa" (166)