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- Social differentiation will be positively associated with violent crime (249).Leavitt, Gregory C. - General evolution and Durkheim's hypothesis of crime frequency: A cross-cult..., 1992 - 16 Variables
This paper is an investigation into the relationship between social differentiation as a proxy for societal 'development' and various categories of crime. A positive relationship is interpreted by the author as empirical cross-cultural support for Durkheim's theory that these two factors will increase together as parallel processes of 'sociocultural evolution'.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Social differentiation will be positively associated with property crime (250).Leavitt, Gregory C. - General evolution and Durkheim's hypothesis of crime frequency: A cross-cult..., 1992 - 15 Variables
This paper is an investigation into the relationship between social differentiation as a proxy for societal 'development' and various categories of crime. A positive relationship is interpreted by the author as empirical cross-cultural support for Durkheim's theory that these two factors will increase together as parallel processes of 'sociocultural evolution'.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Social differentiation will be positively associated with indices of miscellaneous crime (251).Leavitt, Gregory C. - General evolution and Durkheim's hypothesis of crime frequency: A cross-cult..., 1992 - 20 Variables
This paper is an investigation into the relationship between social differentiation as a proxy for societal 'development' and various categories of crime. A positive relationship is interpreted by the author as empirical cross-cultural support for Durkheim's theory that these two factors will increase together as parallel processes of 'sociocultural evolution'.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - There will be positive associations between economic, familial, sexual, and religious ideologies and a variety of technological and social-structural variables (i.e. agricultural technology and economic differentiation) (525).Leavitt, Gregory C. - Ideology and the materialist model of general evolution: a cross-cultural te..., 1986 - 3 Variables
This article takes a materialist approach to the evolution of ideology in human culture.This article examines the possible coevolution of sociocultural subsystems. The author emphasizes ideological variables and their relationship to technological and social-structural subsystems. Analysis supports a process of coevolution, which the author suggests refutes broad claims of cultural particularism.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - The increasing frequency of differentiation in societies will be positively associated with an increase in external war, civil war, and riots (feuding will decrease in frequency as societies become increasingly differentiated) (54)Leavitt, Gregory C. - The frequency of warfare: an evolutionary perspective, 1977 - 5 Variables
Thi study tests a hypothesis on the relationship between frequency of warfare and sociocultural development.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Extension of inbreeding rules will be associated with social stratification (116-117, 120).Thornhill, Nancy Wilmsen - The evolutionary significance of incest rules, 1990 - 2 Variables
This article investigates incest rules, proposing that they are instituted by rulers as a way of preventing wealth-concentration among non-ruling families. Three hypotheses are derived and supported with empirical analysis. Two alternative evolutionary hypotheses are discussed and dismissed by the author.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Rate of exogamy will be negatively associated with community size. (1807)Dow, Gregory K. - The economics of exogamous marriage in small‐scale societies, 2016 - 10 Variables
The authors develop and empirically test a model in which exogamy is negatively predicted by community size, due to decreasing heterogeneity from endogenous marriages in small settlements, and positively predicted by disparity in productivity between communities which is 'smoothed out' by transfer of community members through exogamous marriages. Support for both predictions is found, which is used to argue that cultural traits like marriage customs are heavily influenced by population-environment relationships.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Rate of exogamy will be positively associated with disparities in productivity between the two residence sites. (1807)Dow, Gregory K. - The economics of exogamous marriage in small‐scale societies, 2016 - 12 Variables
The authors develop and empirically test a model in which exogamy is negatively predicted by community size, due to decreasing heterogeneity from endogenous marriages in small settlements, and positively predicted by disparity in productivity between communities which is 'smoothed out' by transfer of community members through exogamous marriages. Support for both predictions is found, which is used to argue that cultural traits like marriage customs are heavily influenced by population-environment relationships.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - The development of technology will be positively associatedwith increasing frequencies of external war, civil war, and riots (but feuding war will decrease as technology develops in society) (53)Leavitt, Gregory C. - The frequency of warfare: an evolutionary perspective, 1977 - 5 Variables
Thi study tests a hypothesis on the relationship between frequency of warfare and sociocultural development.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - The evolution of societies will be positively associated with increasing differentiation (53-54)Leavitt, Gregory C. - The frequency of warfare: an evolutionary perspective, 1977 - 2 Variables
Thi study tests a hypothesis on the relationship between frequency of warfare and sociocultural development.
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