Male Solidarity

Associated Documents (3)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Young, Frank W.Menstrual taboos and social rigidity
Young, Frank W.Initiation ceremonies: a cross-cultural study of status dramatization
Young, Frank W.The function of male initiation ceremonies: a cross-cultural test of an alternative hypothesis

Associated Hypotheses (9)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Young, Frank W."If menstrual taboos amount to a form of institutionalized discrimination against women, then we should expect to find them in subcommunities where males are dominant and tightly organized" (100)
Young, Frank W."Those subsistence tasks in which all or almost all the men participated operated as alternative forms of solidarity" (69)
Young, Frank W."Forms of armed conflict that, as a unit, actively involve all or nearly all the men of the community are associated with solidarity" (70)
Young, Frank W."As male solidarity is more institutionalized, the elaboration of initiation ceremonies increases" (74)
Young, Frank W."Male solidarity dissolves the relationship between the two childhood factors [exclusive mother-son sleeping arrangement and patrilocal residence] and male initiation" (77)
Young, Frank W.Male solidarity has a curvilinear relationship with the complexity of the local community. Where local autonomy prevails and division of labor is minimal, men's organizations are lacking. Under conditions of high social complexity, on the other hand, complex division of labor undermines male solidarity. Therefore, male solidarity is strongest at the middle levels of community complexity (100, 104)
Young, Frank W."There is an association between male solidarity [and type of female household organization]" (93)
Young, Frank W."[There is a] relation between male solidarity and initiation ceremonies..."(384)
Young, Frank W."The two aspects of what may not be labeled 'absent-father family organization' have no empirical relation to initiation ceremonies when male solidarity is controlled" (386)

Associated OCMs

  1. gender status
  2. sodalities
  3. gender roles and issues