Lineality

Associated Documents (3)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Sweetser, Dorrian AppleAvoidance, social affiliation, and the incest taboo
Zern, DavidThe relevance of family cohesiveness as a determinant of premarital sexual behavior in a cross-c...
Gouldner, Alvin W.Notes on technology and the moral order

Associated Hypotheses (4)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Sweetser, Dorrian Apple"Men avoid their parents-in-law in societies with a strong lineal emphasis but which have fragmented and impermanent family groups" (313)
Sweetser, Dorrian Apple"Women avoid their parents-in-law in the same type of situation [as men do], and in addition they are likely to avoid if the mother's brother has no role to play" (313)
Zern, David". . . presence of a high lineal sense will be related to large differences between the values of a society [with regard to premarital sex and pregnancy] and their actual behavior . . ." (6)
Gouldner, Alvin W.The data are consistent with a hypothesis that, of all the factors (kinship, technology, Norm-Sending) technology is relatively the most important. (Varimax rotation shows technology extracts more variance than any other factor) (55)

Associated OCMs

  1. kinship terminology
  2. kin groups
  3. rule of descent