Was There a Prehistoric Trend from Smaller to Larger Political Units
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2201809 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hornell Hart, Donald L Taylor |
| Year | 1944 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 289-301 |
| Publication date | 1944-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/219423 |
| OpenAlex | W2003135625 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
As a step toward more trustworthy social prediction, especially in the field of international relations, this article demonstrates the reliability, validity, and intercorrelation of indices of political and of technological development among forty-six representative modern preliterate peoples. A rating scale for technological development, applicable to either modern or prehistoric peoples, is presented, and its validity is demonstrated. A rating scale indicative of the geographical extent of political development is also presented. These scales are applied in two independent studies, one covering five peoples described by Murdock; the other covering thirty-one other preliterate peoples. Each of these studies shows a high positive correlation between technological and political development among primitive peoples. A regression formula is derived from these studies. When applied to prehistoric epochs, this method shows that the area controlled by any one people has increased at an accelerating rate of speed during prehistoric as well as during historic times
Archaeology · Cartography · Econometrics · Economics · Geography · Political science · Politics · Prehistory · Regional science · Reliability (semiconductor) · Scale (ratio) · Sociology · Trustworthiness · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,01 |
| Citation span | 1947 - 1947 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |