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George Murdock was born on 1897 in Meriden, Connecticut.
He went to Yale University and graduated with honours in 1919.
George Murdock traveled and developed a high interest in the field of Anthropology after his return.
Murdock served as president of the Ethnological Society and the American Anthropological Association.
After he graduated he decided to to go to Harvard for Law. He dropped out and instead, decided to travel around the world.
After his return George Murdock remained the Chairman of the Anthropology Department at Yale University for 21 years.
in 1962 he established the international journal Ethnology, which he edited until he retired.
During World War II, Murdock served as a Lieutenant Officer.
Became the Andrew Mellon Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh from 1960 to 1973.
Even though he preferred the library, George Murdock did some field work. He studied a Haida village in BC, the Tenino in Oregon, African tribes and island groups of the South Pacific.
George Murdock believed that The East and West were similar in the standpoint of marriage, family and inheritance.
In 1954, Murdock published a list of every known culture, the Outline of World Cultures.
In 1957, he published his first cross-cultural data set, the World Ethnographic Sample, consisting of 565 cultures coded for 30 variables.
Between 1962 and 1967, he published installments of his Ethnographic Atlas in the journal Ethnology—a data set eventually containing almost 1,200 cultures coded for over 100 variables.
He is perhaps most notable as the originator of the Cross-Cultural Survey in 1937, a project of the Institute of Human Relations of Yale University, in which a vast amount of anthropological data was cataloged so that any known aspect of a society’s culture could be quickly summoned from a data bank.
George Murdock supported the idea of functionalism. After analysing 250 societies, Murdock argued that the family performs four basic functions; sexual, reproductive, economic and educational. These are the essentials for social life, since without sexual and reproductive functions there would be no members of society, without economic functions life would cease, and without education there would be no culture.
In 1969, together with Douglas R. White, he developed the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample, consisting of a carefully selected set of 186 well-documented cultures that today are coded for about 2000 variables.
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