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Societal Complexity and Familial Complexity

Evidence for the Curvilinear Hypothesis

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2207616
AutoresRae Lesser Blumberg, Robert F Winch
Ano1972
Volume77
Fascículo5
Páginas898-920
Data de publicação1972-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390
EditoraUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/225230
PMID5067536
OpenAlexW2058004349
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas49
Referências citadas12

Theory and anecdotal evidence have led ethnologists from Lowie to the present to conclude that the relation between societal complexity and familial complexity is curvilinear, with minima at the extremes of societal complexity (hunting-gathering and urban-industrial) and a maximum at some intermediate level. To date, however, more systematic empirical studies have led to various and, seemingly, contradictory conclusions. With a new coding of Murdock's Ethnographic Atlas for the technological component of societal complexity and for familial complexity, we are able to show a point of inflection within the range of preindustrial societies. With Marsh's spliced index of societal differentiation, we show the same nonmonotonic relationship for societies ranging from hunting and gathering to Israel and Japan

Inflection point · Social complexity · Categorization, perception, and language · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Language and cultural evolution

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Citações por ano0,91
Intervalo de citações1972 - 2026 (55)
Velocidade de citaçãocurrent
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Tipos de citaçãoNeutras: 47
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