Developmental sequences of kinship patterns

Kinship Studies in the Morgan Centennial Year • Anthropological Society of Washington • Washington, DC • Published In • Pages: 134-165 •
By Dole, Gertrude E.

Hypothesis

". . . the developmental sequence of [kinship]nomenclature types . . . [corresponds to] a scale of increasing cultural complexity" (156)

Test

Test NameSupportSignificanceCoefficientTail
Guttman scaleSupportedUNKNOWNUNKNOWNUNKNOWN

Variables

Variable NameVariable Type OCM Term(s)
Cultural ComplexityIndependentTotal Culture
Kinship NomenclatureDependentKinship Terminology