Relation of child training to subsistence economy

American Anthropologist • Published In • Pages: 51-63 •
By Barry III, Herbert, Child, Irvin L. , Bacon, Margaret K.

Hypothesis

Societies with high accumulation of food resources will have predominant pressure toward compliance, whereas societies with low accumulation will have predominant pressure toward assertion (58).

Test

Test NameSupportSignificanceCoefficientTail
Mann-Whitney U-TestSupportedp<.001.94Two-tailed

Variables

Variable NameVariable Type OCM Term(s)
Accumulation Of Food ResourcesUNKNOWNDiet
Pressure Toward Compliance Or AssertionUNKNOWNSocialization

Related Hypotheses

Main AuthorHypothesis
Barry III, HerbertFood accumulation will be more highly correlated with compliance than over variables such as size of settlement, degree of political integration, social stratification, greater part of women in predominant subsistence activity, polygyny, bride price and bride service, unilineal descent (59).
Barry III, Herbert"[Societies] with stronger pressure toward compliance rather than assertion in child training generally also had greater emphasis on food producing than on food collecting in the subsistence economy" (31)
Barry III, Herbert"In . . . societies in which alcohol was used aboriginally, frequency of drunkenness was . . . closely related to [childhood pressure toward compliance--a childhood dependency measure]"(461)
Barry III, HerbertStrength of child training for achievement, self reliance, and independence will be negatively correlated with accumulation of food resources (52-53).
Child, Irvin L. "Societies with sex differences [in drinking] tend to have a nomadic or rural settlement pattern, economy based on hunting, less accumulation of food resources, stronger child training toward achievement and more punishment of child for failure to achieve" (59)