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- "Although food production as well as food gathering occurs in classless societies, social stratification rarely occurs without food production" (1114)Spiro, Melford E. - A typology of social structure and the patterning of social institutions: a..., 1965 - 2 Variables
This article attempts to construct an empirically-based typology of social structure. Marital structure, government, food production, and stratification are among the factors considered.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "Although food production as well as food gathering occur with minimum government, maximum government does not occur without food production" (1113)Spiro, Melford E. - A typology of social structure and the patterning of social institutions: a..., 1965 - 2 Variables
This article attempts to construct an empirically-based typology of social structure. Marital structure, government, food production, and stratification are among the factors considered.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "Monogamy occurs primarily in a kinship-domestic configuration characterized by bilateral [descent]-independent [family]-small [household]" (1112)Spiro, Melford E. - A typology of social structure and the patterning of social institutions: a..., 1965 - 2 Variables
This article attempts to construct an empirically-based typology of social structure. Marital structure, government, food production, and stratification are among the factors considered.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Spiro stated that food production and social stratification jointly comprise a necessary condition for maximum government. Although there is a significant relationship between the three variables (economics, government and stratification), no statement about necessary conditions can be made (1465, 1466)Chaney, Richard P. - Typology and patterning: Spiro's sample re-examined, 1966 - 3 Variables
This article suggests that Spiro's (1965) study on typology of social structure used a biased cross-cultural sample and possibly obscured regional patterns in data. Hypotheses related to marital structure, descent rules, food production and social stratification are tested.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - 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.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Societies tend to change from simple forms of organization to more complex forms of organization in incremental steps, and decreases in hierarchical organization do not occur [The "rectilinear" 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.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Societies tend to change from simple forms of organization to more complex forms of organization in incremental steps, and decreases to adjacent, less hierarchical forms of organization are possible [The "unilinear" 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.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Societies tend to change from simple forms of organization to more complex forms of organization in incremental steps, and decreases in hierarchical organization to any less complex form can occur [The "relaxed unilinear" 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.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Societies tend to change from simple forms of organization to more complex forms of organization in non-sequential paths, and decreases in hierarchical organization do not occur [The "alternative trajectories" 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.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Societies tend to change from simple forms of organization to more complex forms of organization in non-sequential paths, and decreases in hierarchical organization are also non-sequential [The "alternative trajectories (reversible)" 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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