A typology of social structure and the patterning of social institutions:  a cross-cultural study

"Monogamy occurs primarily in a kinship-domestic configuration characterized by bilateral [descent]-independent [family]-small [household]" (1112)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Chi square	Supported	p<.001	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Bilateral-independent-small Kinship-domestic Configuration	Association	Kin Groups
Monogamy	Association	Polygamy

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Chaney, Richard P.	1966	"No prediction can be made about the presence or absence of exclusive monogamy from the . . . information [bilateral descent-independent family-small household]" (1461)	Supported	4	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Jones, Doug	2011	As time since migration increases, small-scale societies will move through the following sequence of residence and descent configurations: matrilocal and patrilineal to matrilocal and bilateral to matrilocal and matrilineal to avunculocal and matrilineal to patrilocal and bilateral or patrilineal.	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Murdock, George Peter	1949	"Bilateral kindreds tend to be associated with kinship terminology of the generation type" (158)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Sheils, Howard Dean	1971	"The relationship of monogamy and independent families to societal complexity is more adequately described by a curvilinear model than by a linear model" (221)	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Murdock, George Peter	1949	"Age-differentiating terms used by a brother for his sisters . . . are associated with bilateral descent" (110)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author