Overview
Sanctions for illegitimacy vary enormously across cultures and are linked to social structure. Some societies handle non-marital births in a relaxed way; others use restitutive sanctions; and others repressive sanctions. This study of 122 non-industrial societies shows that the regulation of illegitimacy is more varied than any particular theory suggests and aims to test a variety of possible factors in the social regulation of illegitimacy.
- | Author: Lewellyn Hendrix
- | Publisher: Praeger
- | Publication Date: Aug 30, 1996
- | Number of Pages: 224 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0897894677
- | ISBN-13: 9780897894678
