Egalitarian relations: internal statuses are differentiated solely on the basis of generation, sex, and age
No demonstrated kinship units
Ranked relations: internal statuses are differentiated on the basis of considerations other than generation or age(birth order, and so forth)

No demonstrated kinship units
Organized demonstrated kinship units: the unit carries out joint activities
Unorganized demonstrated kinship units: no joint activity is carried out (such as ceremonies, and so forth)

Both 3 and 4
No moiety or phratry
Organized, but only to regulate marriage
Organized to perform rituals and regulate political affairs
Organized to perform special rituals (including religious rituals, games, feasts, and so forth)
Unorganized

Hierarchical: a set of kinship units are differentiated with respect to power or privilege
Minimal hierarchy: units are differentiated on the basis of prestige alone
Moderate hierarchy: units form a set, one member of which has differential power or privilege
No demonstrated kinship units
Nonhierarchical: demonstrated kinship units are not differentiated with respect to prestige, power, or privilege

Both 3 and 4
Movable corporeal property, such as houses, boats, fish traps and weirs, etc
No corporeal property, moveable or not, such as hunting territory, fishing stations, houses, etc. is owned by demonstrated kinship units
No demonstrated kinship units
Unmovable corporeal property, such as fishing stations, farm land, berry patches, etc.

Incorporeal property includes privileges, heirlooms, rituals, songs, dances, crests, myths, names, and the like
No demonstrated kinship units
No incorporeal property is owned by demonstrated kinship units

Bifurcate bisexual pattern: four terms, distinguished by both sex and sex of the connecting relative can be glossed as paternal grandfather, maternal grandfather, paternal grandmother, and maternal grandmother
Bifurcate pattern: two terms distinguished by the sex of connecting relative can be glossed as paternal grandparent and maternal grandparent (Murdock's M)
Bisexual pattern: two terms distinguished by sex, can be glossed as grandparent
Matri-skewed pattern: three terms distinguished by sex and, for females, distinguished also by the sex of the connecting relative, can be glossed as grandfather, paternal grandmother (or for female, mother's husband's brother), and maternal grandmother (Murdock's K)
Merging pattern: a single undifferentiated term can be glossed as grandparent
Opposite of 7: Three terms are MoPa (mother's parents), FaMo, and FaFa (Murdock's V; On Map Cu-152 termed Inter Bif/Bif Bisex F )
Rare pattern distinguishing between grandparent of ego's sex, GrFa (grandfather, woman speaking) and GrMo (grandmother, man speaking) (Murdock's K; On Map Cu-152 termed Ego same-sex distinction )
Rare pattern intermediate between bifurcate and bifurcate bisexual patterns: distinguishes between FaPa (father's parents), MoFa (mother's father), and MoMo (mother's mother (Murdock's U; On Map Cu-152 termed Inter Bif/Bif Bisex M )
Three terms: (1) GrMo (man speaking) and GrFa (woman speaking), GrFa (man speaking), and (3) GrMo (woman speaking)