Hypotheses
- "Greater privacy for newlyweds is associated with greater romantic love" (277)Cozby, Paul C. - Privacy, love and in-law avoidance, 1971 - 2 Variables
Authors explore the relationship between privacy among newlywed couples and romantic love as a basis for marriage. Authors also consider the relationship between newlywed privacy and kin avoidence. Both associations are found to be statistically significant.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Mother-in-law/son-in-law avoidance will be positively associated with economic interaction between mother-in-law and son-in-law (74, 77).Pans, A.E.M.J. - The mother-in-law taboo, 1998 - 2 Variables
This article examines mother-in-law avoidance, theorizing it is "a device for distinguishing the son-in-law/mother-in-law relationship from the husband-wife relationship in societies where these relationships tend to be similar as far as their economic aspect is concerned” (71). The conditions that may give rise to economic interaction between son-in-law and mother-in-law, such as matrilocal residence, are also discussed.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "Tylor advanced the plausible hypothesis that mother-in-law avoidance should be highly correlated with matrilocal residence" (366)Murdock, George Peter - Cross-sex patterns of kin behavior, 1971 - 2 Variables
This study re-examines patterns of cross-sex kin relationships using new ethnographic data. The author looks specifically at cross-sex kin relationship in relation to marriage rules.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "Romantic love would be a stronger factor in societies with non neolocal residence [as opposed to those with neolocal residence or neolocal residence as a significant alternative]" (476)Rosenblatt, Paul C. - Marital residence and the functions of romantic love, 1967 - 2 Variables
This article explores the relationship between marital residence and romantic love; results suggest that romantic love is most important in societies with non-neolocal marital residence. The author explores potential functions of romantic love, including bolstering against the divisive pressure of relatives, or to substitute for economic interdependence between spouses.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "Freedom of choice of spouse is associated with greater male-female contact. . . . Freedom of choice is also associated with greater romantic love as a basis of marriage . . ." (689)Rosenblatt, Paul C. - Courtship patterns associated with freedom of choice of spouse, 1972 - 3 Variables
This article investigates several correlates of freedom of choice of spouse, including general male-female contact and antagonism in premarital male-female interaction. Particular attention is paid to dances in the role of making contact with a spouse.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "We predicted a positive correlation between duration of the post partum sex taboo and severity of [mother-in-law] avoidance" (132)Stephens, William N. - Kin-avoidance, 1962 - 2 Variables
The authors test the male Oedipus complex hypothesis with a prediction suggesting that the scale of kin-avoidance is related to "a phobic attitude towards incest" (129).
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "As far as the mother-in-law is concerned, matrilineal societies are most formal and bilateral least" (193)Goody, Jack - Cross-sex patterns of kin behavior: a comment, 1974 - 2 Variables
This paper examines the behavior between close kin and affines of the opposite sex. The authors "point to certain differences between continental areas that are related to specific social factors, including the structure of descent groups and the nature of marriage arrangements."
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "Individuals [in societies where there is] inadequate satisfaction of early oral . . . needs are more concerned with affection as adults than are those who have been adequately satisfied" (336)Rosenblatt, Paul C. - A cross cultural study of child rearing and romantic love, 1966 - 2 Variables
This study examines the relationship between satisfaction of early oral and dependence needs and concern with affection in adulthood. Data showed significant support for an association between the satisfaction of early oral needs (but not the satisfaction of dependence needs) and concern for affection in adulthood.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - In patrilocal cultures, where the young bride dominated by a mother-in-law becomes, in middle age, a mother-in-law herself, will be positively associated with a shift in status (6)Bart, Pauline B. - Why women's status changes in the middle ages: the turns of the social ferri..., 1969 - 2 Variables
This article focuses on the cross-cultural data comparing the relationship between changes in status and availability of important roles, with an emphasis on women. Cultural and structural aspects of society are examined to discover their relationship to the position of women after their child-bearing years.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - ". . . residential propinquity influences a society's kin avoidance. . . . [There is an] association between mother-in-law/son-in-law avoidance and [their] degree of community coresidence" (243, 247)Witkowski, Stanley - A cross-cultural test of the proximity hypothesis, 1972 - 2 Variables
This paper tests the proximity hypothesis (used by Murdock [1949]) which posits that residential propinquity will be associated with parent-in-law avoidance and kin terminology. Several operational hypotheses are tested but none are supported. The author suggests that this finding may cast doubt other hypotheses that underlie Murdock’s findings, such as the participation hypothesis.
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