Family Violence in Cross-Cultural PerspectiveSAGE Publications, 1989 M02 1 - 152 páginas Levinson's study of family violence breaks new ground by taking a global perspective of this social ill. He uses ethnographic work on 90 societies to analyse the incidence, causes and correlates of family violence. Through the use of both quantitative analysis and ethnographic description, he tests the efficacy of various current theories against world-wide family violence data. Among the author's more important conclusions are that women's economic equality and independence reduces family violence and that family violence is clearly correlated with more general violence in a society. |
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Foreword | 6 |
Introduction | 21 |
Varieties of Family Violence | 35 |
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90 societies adult anthropologists behavior caretakers Central Thai Chapter child abuse child punishment child rearing clitoridectomies co-wives codes coefficients complex societies correlations cross-cultural perspective cross-cultural research cross-cultural study divorce freedom Dogon domestic authority economic inequality ethnographic factors family violence father female fighting female work groups findings form of family genital modifications HRAF husband beating hypothesis Igbo infanticide intervention labor male dominance male fighting marriage Mbuti measures men's houses menstrual taboos minority of households mother nonviolent norms nuclear family Ojibwa parents patrilocal physical punishment polygynous postmarital residence predictor of wife predicts punishment of children relationship reported Rundi sample sex identity conflict sexual inequality theory sibling aggression social learning social learning theory societal level status Straus suggests Table techniques types of family types of violence variables violence directed violence will occur warfare wife beating wife beating frequency wife beating occurs wife-beating frequency wives women zadruga