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  1. "In stratified societies the key control positions will be concentrated in the upper stata, and the positions of no control and authority in the lower strata" (230)Moore, B., Jr. - The relation between social stratification and social control, 1942 - 2 Variables

    This article explores the relationship between social stratification and control hierarchies, defined as "command-obedience relationships" within economic, political, religious, military, and familial institutions. Results indicate a positive association.

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  2. "The presence or absence of social stratification in any society is related to the number and importance of control hierarchies in the society. . . . Stratified societies should contain more control hierarchies than the unstratified ones" (230, 240)Moore, B., Jr. - The relation between social stratification and social control, 1942 - 2 Variables

    This article explores the relationship between social stratification and control hierarchies, defined as "command-obedience relationships" within economic, political, religious, military, and familial institutions. Results indicate a positive association.

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  3. Women in societies with higher female status will be less likely to prefer partners with resources and more likely to prefer physically attractive partners than women in societies with lower female status (68).Moore, Fhionna R. - Female status predicts female mate preferences across nonindustrial societies, 2007 - 3 Variables

    The effect of female status on women's mate preference in a sample of nonindustrial societies is examined.

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  4. Rational organization is negatively associated with hereditary stratification, hereditary political succession, slavery, and centralized government (306)Udy, Stanley H., Jr. - Administrative rationality, social setting, and organizational development, 1962 - 5 Variables

    This study examines organizational characteristics associated with administrative rationality, as well as how organizational development differs under varying social or cultural conditions.

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  5. Findings: A factor analysis of traits used to develop a settlement pattern scale of cultural complexity yielded three important factors. Factor 2, "Political" (oblique rotation), loaded positively and heavily on leadership and political structure variables (245)McNett, Charles W., Jr. - Factor analysis of a cross-cultural sample, 1973 - 4 Variables

    This study employs factor analysis to develop a settlement pattern scale of cultural complexity. Political, economic, and religious factors are identified and implications for the structure of the cultural system are discussed.

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  6. ". . . administrative rationality involves relative independence of the organization from its social setting" (304)Udy, Stanley H., Jr. - Administrative rationality, social setting, and organizational development, 1962 - 2 Variables

    This study examines organizational characteristics associated with administrative rationality, as well as how organizational development differs under varying social or cultural conditions.

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  7. As groups increase in size and hierarchical complexity, individuals in power will exploit their positions to resolve conflicts of interest within the group asymmetrically (210).Betzig, Laura L. - Despotism and differential reproduction: a cross-cultural correlation of con..., 1982 - 3 Variables

    This article uses a Darwinian approach, predicting that hierarchies persist and increase in social evolution because they increase fitness for individuals at higher levels within the hierarchy who choose to further social assymetry and benefit their fitness at the expense of the greater group. Polygyny is used as the indicator of fitness. Correlations tested support the hypothesis.

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  8. The prevailing type of social base is related to the state of social development. Familial work organization receives its greatest relative impetus with the advent of sedentary agriculture. Specialized political units receive their greatest impetus with centralized government when they displace familial forms and gain control over resources (41-42)Udy, Stanley H., Jr. - Work in traditional and modern society, 1970 - 2 Variables

    Udy divides methods of work organization into 'production determined', 'technologically determined', 'socially determined', and 'pluralistic' types, and examines their prevalence across societies with varying subsistence activities and levels of social and political stratification. Special attention is paid to processes of integration and differentiation and their role in effecting transitions between organization types.

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  9. Societies change their political organization (increase or decrease) in any way (sequential or non-sequential) [The "full" model] (802).Currie, Thomas E. - Rise and fall of political complexity in island South-East Asia and the Pacific, 2010 - 1 Variables

    A central issue in anthropology is the process through which political organization (sometimes referred to as cultural complexity) evolves: competing models typically argue for either incremental increases in complexity or larger, non-sequential increases in complexity. Here, the authors evaluate six different models of political evolution, utilizing a phylogenetic approach to analyze the evolution of 84 Austronesian-speaking societies.

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  10. Theories of illness causation are regionally distributed (161).Moore, Carmella Caracci - An optimal scaling of murdock's theories of illness data--an approach to the..., 1988 - 2 Variables

    This study examines whether theories of illness causation are regionally distributed, as was reported by Murdock (1980). Optimal scaling analysis suggests two regional patterns, one in African and Circum-Mediterranean societies, the other in Eurasian, Insular Pacific, North American, and South American societies.

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