Family Household Structure

Associated Documents (1)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Whiting, John W.M.Sorcery, sin and the superego: a cross-cultural study of some mechanisms of social control

Associated Hypotheses (2)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Whiting, John W.M."We would predict . . . [that] . . . the greatest identification and guilt should be found in societies with nuclear households, next with monogamous extended households, next with polygynous households, and least of all with mother-child households" (162, 164)
Whiting, John W.M."[There is] interaction between family structure and age of weaning [on the] . . . extent to which a person who gets sick blames himself (i.e., patient responsibility--an indirect measure of guilt assumption)" (164, 165)

Associated OCMs

  1. household