Social structure

"Exogamous moieties tend to be associated with kinship terminology of the bifurcate merging type" (169)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Yule’s Q	Supported	p<.01	.63	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Exogamous Moieties	Independent	Moieties
Kinship Terminology (bifurcate Merging Type)	Dependent	Kinship Terminology

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Murdock, George Peter	1949	"Exogamous matrilineal or patrilineal lineages, sibs, phratries, and/or moieties tend to be associated with kinship terminology of the bifurcate merging type" (164)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Murdock, George Peter	1947	"This social classification and differentiation [of moieties] . . . should tend to produce a corresponding effect on kinship terminology, and thus result in the phenomenon of bifurcate merging" (57)	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
Murdock, George Peter	1949	"Patrilocal and matri-patrilocal residence tend to be associated with kinship terminology of the bifurcate merging type" (150)	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