George Murdock

George Peter "Pete" Murdock May 11, 1897 – March 29, 1985, also so-called as G. P. Murdock, was an American anthropologist who was professor at Yale University as well as University of Pittsburgh. He is remembered for his empirical approach to ethnological studies & his analyse of quality and kinship executives across differing cultures. His 1967 Ethnographic Atlas dataset on more than 1,200 pre-industrial societies is influential and frequently used in social science research.

Contributions

Murdock is known most of any for his main sequence opinion whose gist was spelled out by him initially as follows: "When all social system which has attained equilibrium begins to change, such change regularly begins with correct of the authority of residence. Alteration in residence rules is followed by developing or conform in name of descent consistent with residence rules. Finally adaptive adjust in kinship terminology follow Murdock 1949:221–222."