Hypotheses
- "Among the [lower economic types] the number of cases in which tribal offenses alone are publicly punished is overwhelmingly greater than the number in which private offenses alone are so punished, while in the higher [economic] grades the relation is reversed" (79)Hobhouse, L. T. - The material culture and social institutions of the simpler peoples: an ess..., 1915 - 2 Variables
An early cross-cultural study that sought to establish correlations between "stages" of economic culture and a variety of different social and political institutions, such as form of government and justice, marriage and kinship, and behaviors during warfare.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "We have then clear evidence of an advance in organised government accompanying economic development"(51)Hobhouse, L. T. - The material culture and social institutions of the simpler peoples: an ess..., 1915 - 2 Variables
An early cross-cultural study that sought to establish correlations between "stages" of economic culture and a variety of different social and political institutions, such as form of government and justice, marriage and kinship, and behaviors during warfare.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Consideration given for the bride as a basis of marriage and particularly outright purchase increases markedly with the advance of economic culture (155)Hobhouse, L. T. - The material culture and social institutions of the simpler peoples: an ess..., 1915 - 2 Variables
An early cross-cultural study that sought to establish correlations between "stages" of economic culture and a variety of different social and political institutions, such as form of government and justice, marriage and kinship, and behaviors during warfare.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "The communal principle predominates in the lower stages of culture and retains a small preponderance among the pastoral peoples and that private ownership tends to increase in the higher Agricultural stages" (253)Hobhouse, L. T. - The material culture and social institutions of the simpler peoples: an ess..., 1915 - 2 Variables
An early cross-cultural study that sought to establish correlations between "stages" of economic culture and a variety of different social and political institutions, such as form of government and justice, marriage and kinship, and behaviors during warfare.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "The increase [in serfs or slaves] is quite uniform from [economic] grade to grade" (236)Hobhouse, L. T. - The material culture and social institutions of the simpler peoples: an ess..., 1915 - 2 Variables
An early cross-cultural study that sought to establish correlations between "stages" of economic culture and a variety of different social and political institutions, such as form of government and justice, marriage and kinship, and behaviors during warfare.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - The figures show a regular increase of public control of marriage and public punishment for adultery with advancing economic development (166)Hobhouse, L. T. - The material culture and social institutions of the simpler peoples: an ess..., 1915 - 3 Variables
An early cross-cultural study that sought to establish correlations between "stages" of economic culture and a variety of different social and political institutions, such as form of government and justice, marriage and kinship, and behaviors during warfare.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Divorce, whether by will of either party, consent of both, or subject to bride price adjustments, is unrelated to economic development (165)Hobhouse, L. T. - The material culture and social institutions of the simpler peoples: an ess..., 1915 - 2 Variables
An early cross-cultural study that sought to establish correlations between "stages" of economic culture and a variety of different social and political institutions, such as form of government and justice, marriage and kinship, and behaviors during warfare.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "[There is] a fairly constant tendency to a greater chastity [with increased economic development]" (169)Hobhouse, L. T. - The material culture and social institutions of the simpler peoples: an ess..., 1915 - 2 Variables
An early cross-cultural study that sought to establish correlations between "stages" of economic culture and a variety of different social and political institutions, such as form of government and justice, marriage and kinship, and behaviors during warfare.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "The position of women is unfavorable at all stages [of economic development--from hunters to pastoralists and agriculturalists]" (173)Hobhouse, L. T. - The material culture and social institutions of the simpler peoples: an ess..., 1915 - 2 Variables
An early cross-cultural study that sought to establish correlations between "stages" of economic culture and a variety of different social and political institutions, such as form of government and justice, marriage and kinship, and behaviors during warfare.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "Broadly, if we omit the intermixed cases, we see that the maternal principle [residence and descent] predominates among the hunting peoples, the paternal in the pastoral stage, while among agricultural peoples the two are neatly balanced" (153)Hobhouse, L. T. - The material culture and social institutions of the simpler peoples: an ess..., 1915 - 2 Variables
An early cross-cultural study that sought to establish correlations between "stages" of economic culture and a variety of different social and political institutions, such as form of government and justice, marriage and kinship, and behaviors during warfare.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author