Hypotheses
- The presence of a word for middle age (as distinguished from old age) will be positively associated with a higher status for women after menopause (6)Bart, Pauline B. - Why women's status changes in the middle ages: the turns of the social ferri..., 1969 - 2 Variables
This article focuses on the cross-cultural data comparing the relationship between changes in status and availability of important roles, with an emphasis on women. Cultural and structural aspects of society are examined to discover their relationship to the position of women after their child-bearing years.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "In those societies in which the contribution of women to subsistence is minimal, and in which post-marital residence is patrilocal, and in which descent is patrilineal, mothers-in-law will confine young wives and monitor their behavior and mothers-in-law will be punitive" (233).Brown, Judith K. - Being in charge: older women and their younger female kin, 1994 - 6 Variables
A study of the relationship between older women and their young female kin. Relationships between women's relationships with their mother-in-laws and subsistence contribution, residence, descent, and food preparation are examined. Findings offer significant support for patterns in the relationship between older women and younger female kin.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Education rates will be higher for daughters relative to sons in matrilocal societies, and will be higher for sons relative to daughters in patrilocal societies.Bau, Natalie - Can Policy Change Culture? Government Pension Plans and Traditional Kinship ..., 2021 - 3 Variables
In this paper, the author examines the effects of recent pension policies in Indonesia and Ghana on the practice of matri- or patrilocality. She also explores the relationships between these policies, marital residence, education, and elderly support. Her findings show that both matri/patrilocality and the investment parents make in their children have declined since the implementation of the pension plans.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Patrilocal residence will be positively associated with institutionalized deference for women (99).Coltrane, Scott - The micropolitics of gender in nonindustrial societies, 1992 - 2 Variables
This article presents an analysis of predictors of displays of manliness, women's inferiority, deference to men, and dominance of wives.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Parents will be more likely to transmit cultural norms of marital residence to educated children.Bau, Natalie - Can Policy Change Culture? Government Pension Plans and Traditional Kinship ..., 2021 - 2 Variables
In this paper, the author examines the effects of recent pension policies in Indonesia and Ghana on the practice of matri- or patrilocality. She also explores the relationships between these policies, marital residence, education, and elderly support. Her findings show that both matri/patrilocality and the investment parents make in their children have declined since the implementation of the pension plans.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - The reduced practice of matrilocality will reduce the practice of elderly support.Bau, Natalie - Can Policy Change Culture? Government Pension Plans and Traditional Kinship ..., 2021 - 2 Variables
In this paper, the author examines the effects of recent pension policies in Indonesia and Ghana on the practice of matri- or patrilocality. She also explores the relationships between these policies, marital residence, education, and elderly support. Her findings show that both matri/patrilocality and the investment parents make in their children have declined since the implementation of the pension plans.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Complex societies will be positively associated with an ideology of women's inferiority (101).Coltrane, Scott - The micropolitics of gender in nonindustrial societies, 1992 - 2 Variables
This article presents an analysis of predictors of displays of manliness, women's inferiority, deference to men, and dominance of wives.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Patrilineality and male inheritance will be negatively associated with women's participation in religious rituals (54, 60).Fink, Virginia S. - A cross-cultural test of Nancy Jay's theory about women, sacrificial blood a..., 2004 - 3 Variables
This article examines the restriction of women in religious ritual, focusing on cultural traits that favor men's power. Results suggest that patrilineality and male inheritance correlate with the restriction of women’s participation in ritual.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "A positive relationship should exist between the level of sexual permissiveness and the distribution of power and resources through the female line" (7)Eckhardt, Kenneth W. - Exchange theory and sexual permissiveness, 1971 - 2 Variables
"An exchange theory of social behavior is advanced to explain intersocietal differences in sex codes…[Results indicate] modest support for the thesis that the location of power and resources as they influence social interaction and exchange are contributory forces in accounting for the level of sexual permissiveness found in society" (1).
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - The introduction of pension plans will reduce traditional marital residence practices.Bau, Natalie - Can Policy Change Culture? Government Pension Plans and Traditional Kinship ..., 2021 - 2 Variables
In this paper, the author examines the effects of recent pension policies in Indonesia and Ghana on the practice of matri- or patrilocality. She also explores the relationships between these policies, marital residence, education, and elderly support. Her findings show that both matri/patrilocality and the investment parents make in their children have declined since the implementation of the pension plans.
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