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- Gossip will be more important in societies with higher levels of community loyalty (303).Demerath, Loren - The importance of gossip across societies: correlations with institutionaliz..., 2015 - 2 Variables
This article investigates the theory that gossip, as a method of obtaining information and creating a meaningful social environment, increases in importance with society complexity. Forms of gossip in highly "modernized" societies, which are rare in the cross-cultural sample, are discussed. In addition, the authors explore associations between gender autonomy and the importance of gossip.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Gossip will be more important in societies with higher levels of stratification (298, 303).Demerath, Loren - The importance of gossip across societies: correlations with institutionaliz..., 2015 - 2 Variables
This article investigates the theory that gossip, as a method of obtaining information and creating a meaningful social environment, increases in importance with society complexity. Forms of gossip in highly "modernized" societies, which are rare in the cross-cultural sample, are discussed. In addition, the authors explore associations between gender autonomy and the importance of gossip.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Gossip will be more important in societies with more institutionalization (298, 303).Demerath, Loren - The importance of gossip across societies: correlations with institutionaliz..., 2015 - 2 Variables
This article investigates the theory that gossip, as a method of obtaining information and creating a meaningful social environment, increases in importance with society complexity. Forms of gossip in highly "modernized" societies, which are rare in the cross-cultural sample, are discussed. In addition, the authors explore associations between gender autonomy and the importance of gossip.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Gossip will be more important, rather than less important, in larger communities (298, 301).Demerath, Loren - The importance of gossip across societies: correlations with institutionaliz..., 2015 - 2 Variables
This article investigates the theory that gossip, as a method of obtaining information and creating a meaningful social environment, increases in importance with society complexity. Forms of gossip in highly "modernized" societies, which are rare in the cross-cultural sample, are discussed. In addition, the authors explore associations between gender autonomy and the importance of gossip.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Differences in country, language, sex, and speaker contribute to changes in how emotions are mapped onto speech prosody.Van Rijn, Pol - Modelling individual and cross-cultural variation in the mapping of emotions..., 2023 - 5 Variables
The study proposes a Bayesian modeling framework to analyze and examine the mapping between emotions and speech prosody. The models are fitted to a large collection of emotional prosody recordings, and the study reveals that the mapping varies across corpora, individuals, cultures, and sexes. The study suggests that models accounting for mapping differences across these factors outperform models assuming a global mapping.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Findings: A factor analysis of key dimensions to describe a given culture yielded 12 factors. Factor 6, "status as determined by occupation", loaded highly and positively on class stratification based on occupational status; large state is level of political integration; city present; hierarchy of national jurisdiction has 3 or 4 levels; plow present; located in Southeast Asia. Factor 6 loaded negatively on medical client highly hampered from returning to normal social roles; marriage commonly or occasionally polygynous (59-60)Stewart, Robert A. C. - Cultural dimensions: a factor analysis of textor's a cross-cultural summary, 1972 - 9 Variables
This article uses factor analysis to identify the key variables underlying the many cross-cultural associations reported by Textor (1967). Twelve factors are identified.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Economic complexity, food surplus, social stratification, and political organization will be positively associated with levels of sexual dominance (679)Johnson, G. David - A cross-cultural test of Collins’ theory of sexual stratification, 1982 - 5 Variables
This article tests Randall Collin's 1975 theory that political-economic factors, rather than family/kinship factors, predict the degree of sexual stratification in a given society. A multivariate model is tested and findings contradict the theory.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Monopolization of information is negatively correlated with high status for women (82)Artemova, Olga - Monopolization of information and female status: a cross-cultural test, 2003 - 2 Variables
This study tests a hypothesis developed in a previous study (Artemova 2003). The authors analyze the relationship between the monopolization of politically important information and gender inequality. Sixty correlations are tested between measures of female status and an indicator of information monopolization; findings support the hypothesis.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Female fieldworkers will be associated with more evidence for favorable statuses of women, yielding higher coded statuses.Whyte, Martin King - Cross-cultural studies of women and the male bias problem, 1978 - 2 Variables
A feminist critique of ethnographic information is tested to determine if the gender of fieldworkers or coders has a significant effect on the reliability of data regarding women's status. Findings indicate that there is no male bias in coding. With regard to male versus female ethnographers, only a few results (no more than chance) found any evidence of possible bias, but they are all in the same direction with female ethnographers more favorable. Author suggests that any bias will be lessened by using more specific coding scales.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Male coders will record lower scores for the status of women than female coders will.Whyte, Martin King - Cross-cultural studies of women and the male bias problem, 1978 - 2 Variables
A feminist critique of ethnographic information is tested to determine if the gender of fieldworkers or coders has a significant effect on the reliability of data regarding women's status. Findings indicate that there is no male bias in coding. With regard to male versus female ethnographers, only a few results (no more than chance) found any evidence of possible bias, but they are all in the same direction with female ethnographers more favorable. Author suggests that any bias will be lessened by using more specific coding scales.
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