What Have We Learned from Cross-Cultural Surveys?.

Levinson, David

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Publication Date: 1977

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What Have We Learned from Cross-Cultural Surveys?

Levinson, David

American Behavioral Scientist, 20, 5, 757-92, May/Jun 77

Summarizes what behavioral science has learned from holocultural studies of social problems, child rearing, kinship, and cultural evolution. Holocultural studies test or derive a theory by mathematical analysis of data drawn from a sample of primitive societies representing three or more geographical regions of the world. (Author/AV)

Descriptors: Anthropology, Behavioral Science Research, Child Rearing, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context, Family (Sociological Unit), Global Approach, Literature Reviews, Social Problems, State of the Art Reviews

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