Gambling

Associated Documents (6)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Pryor, Frederic L.Economic systems of foragers
Gray, Peter B.Evolutionary and cross-cultural perspectives on gambling
Pryor, Frederic L.The friedman-savage utility function in cross-cultural perspective
Frederic L. PryorEconomic Systems of Foraging, Agricultural, and Industrial Societies
Leavitt, Gregory C.General evolution and Durkheim's hypothesis of crime frequency: A cross-cultural test
Pryor, Frederic L.The origins of the economy: a comparative study of distribution in primitive and peasant economies

Associated Hypotheses (9)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Pryor, Frederic L.Forager economic type will not be associated with famine threat, percentage of hunting subsistence, presence of gambling, conflict, corporate descent groups, household form, family form, marital form, postmarital residence, female power, male aggression, and male dominance (408, 415, 416).
Gray, Peter B.There will be more societies in which males gamble than societies in which females gamble (350).
Gray, Peter B.There will be more societies in which young adults gamble than societies in which individuals of other age classes gamble (351).
Pryor, Frederic L.The presence of gambling will be positively associated with location in North America, the presence of domestic commercial money, and socioeconomic inequality and negatively associated with nomadic pastoralism.
Frederic L. PryorAgricultural economy type (Herding-Plus, Egalitarian, Individualistic, or Semi-Marketized) will be associated with the presence of certain political institutions. (116)
Leavitt, Gregory C.Social differentiation will be positively associated with indices of miscellaneous crime (251).
Pryor, Frederic L.The presence of gambling is positively related to social inequality (276).
Pryor, Frederic L.The presence of gambling is inversely related to nomadic herding as a society's primary mode of production (276).
Pryor, Frederic L.The presence of gambling is positively related to the presence of money (276).

Associated OCMs

  1. gambling