Social structure

"Sororal polygyny tends to be associated with kinship terminology of the bifurcate merging type for aunts and for nieces by marriage" (143)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Yule’s Q	Not Supported	above .10	.23	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Kinship Terminology (bifurcate Merging Type)	Dependent	Kinship Terminology
Sororal Polygyny	Independent	Polygamy

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Murdock, George Peter	1949	"non-sororal polygyny tends to be associated with kinship terminology of the bifurcate collateral type" (146)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Murdock, George Peter	1947	". . . rules of preferential mating, especially the levirate and sororate, may produce . . . [bifurcate merging]" (60)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Murdock, George Peter	1949	"Exogamous moieties tend to be associated with kinship terminology of the bifurcate merging type" (169)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Murdock, George Peter	1949	"Patrilocal and matri-patrilocal residence, because of their association with non-sororal polygyny, tend to be accompanied by kinship terminology of the bifurcate collateral type" (151)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Murdock, George Peter	1949	"Matrilocal and avunculocal residence tend to be associated with kinship terminology of the bifurcate merging type" (149)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author