Social structure

"non-sororal polygyny tends to be associated with kinship terminology of the bifurcate collateral type" (146)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Yule’s Q	Supported	p<.05	.30	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Kinship Terminology (bifurcate Collateral)	Dependent	Kinship Terminology
Non-sororal Polygyny	Independent	Polygamy

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
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	"Sororal polygyny tends to be associated with kinship terminology of the bifurcate merging type for aunts and for nieces by marriage" (143)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Murdock, George Peter	1949	"In the presence of non-sororal polygyny, collateral relatives outside of the polygynous family tend to be terminologically differentiated from primary relatives of the same sex and generation" (144)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Aberle, David F.	1961	"By comparison with bifurcate collateral terminology, bifurcate collateral terminology, bifurcate merging terminology tends to be associated with matriliny. . . . By comparison with derivative bifurcate merging terminology, it is also associated with matriliny . . ." (712)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Murdock, George Peter	1949	"In the presence of sororal polygyny, terms for primary relatives tend to be extended, within the same sex and generation, to their collateral relatives through females" (141)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author