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Appendix B

DIAGRAMMATIC PRESENTATION OF THE PROPOSITIONS

There are some readers who would like to see the 25 propositions from Chapter Eight presented in diagrammatic form. By this I mean simply one diagram for each proposition. It is not my intent to try to interrelate all 25 propositions in one diagram even though that would be a most valuable undertaking for it would reveal interrelationships and missing propositions. I leave that serious task for the future. Below are the 25 propositions, individually diagramed. It will be helpful to consult the verbal presentation in Chapter 8 for any further clarity about each proposition.

1. Stability of a Relationship --- + --- > Importance of a Relationship

2. Physical Pleasure & Self Disclosure --- + --- > Stable Social Relationship

3. Sexual Behavior --- + --- > Physical Pleasure and Self Disclosure

4. Stable Sexual Relationship --- + --- > Judged as Important

5. Stable Heterosexual Relationships --- + --- > Nurturance of Newborn

6 . Stable Heterosexual Relationships --- + --- > Kinship Customs
                                                                   \ --- + --- >      Gender Roles

7. Importance of Social Relationship --- + --- > Institutionalized Protective                                                                                            Mechanism

8. Importance of Marital Sexuality --- + --- > Protective Jealousy Customs

9. Power of Group --- + --- > Attaining Valued Social Goals

10. Power of Group --- + --- > Group sexual Rights in: Sexual Scripts, Erotica, &
                                                                 Avoidance of Sexual Abuse

11. Power of Group in Key Institutions --- + --- > Prestige of Groups in Society

12. Common Group Residence --- + --- > Power of Group

13. Common Resident Descent Group --- + --- > Power of Descent Group
                                                                          \ --- - --- > Sexual Abuse

14. Institutional Specialization --- - --- > Power of Specialist in Other Institutions

15. Female Specialization in Family --- - --- > Female Power in Other Institutions

16. Operant Institutional Values < --- + --- > Type of Ideologies

17. Institutionalized Gender Dominance < --- + --- > Gender Dominant Ideology

18. Type of General Ideology --- + --- > Type of Sexual Ideology

19. Gender Dominant in Basic Ideology --- + --- > Gender Dominant in:
                                                                                    Sexual Ideology, Erotica
                                                                                    Preference, & Sexual Scripts

20. Integration with Gender Ideology --- + --- > Acceptability of Heterosexuality
                                                                                         and Homosexuality

21. Rigidity of Gender Ideology --- + --- > Sexual Non-Conformity

22. Institutional Flexibility --- + --- > Initiator of Change in Other Institutions

23. Economic Changes --- + --- > Change in Other Institutions

24. Change in Non-Kinship Institutions < --- + --- > Change in Marital Jealousy,
                                                                         Gender Roles, and Sexual Ideologies

25. Changes in Marital Jealousy, Gender Roles, and Sexual Ideologies < --- + --- >
                                                                                       Changes in Sexual Behavior

There is an obvious need for conceptual definition in order to test these propositions. A start on this can be obtained by looking up some of these concepts in the Glossary and Index to this book. In some instances I had to make slight changes in the proposition in order to better diagram it. For those who will seek to refine, expand and interrelate these propositions: Good Luck! Please inform me of your results.

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