Unilinear Descent Groups

Associated Documents (2)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Cohen, Yehudi A.The establishment of identity in a social nexus: the special case of initiation ceremonies and t...
Cohen, Yehudi A.The transition from childhood to adolescence: cross-cultural studies of initiation ceremonies, ...

Associated Hypotheses (3)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Cohen, Yehudi A.Unilinear descent groups will be positively associated with extrusion or brother-sister avoidance (539)
Cohen, Yehudi A."[There is a] relationship between the agents of socialization and the presence or absence of unilineal descent groups and between [the latter] and experiences at the first stage of puberty [that is extrusion and/or brother-sister avoidance]" (71)
Cohen, Yehudi A."[Where] children are brought up . . . for sociological interdependence they will be brought up and taught by members of their descent group [and] parents and during the 2nd stage of puberty there may be a further disruption of [the family relationship by an initiation ceremony]" (113)

Associated OCMs

  1. rule of descent