Family Size and Community Organization: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

Cross-Cultural Research • Vol/Iss. 34(2) • HRAF • New Haven, Connecticut • Published In • Pages: 152-189 •
By Bondarenko, Dmitri, Korotayev, Andrey V.

Abstract

The study examines the relationship between communal democracy and family size. The results indicate a weak significant negative correlation between communal leadership and family size. Even though the researchers suggest that the known curvilinear relationship between the variables could challenge this finding, further tests indicate that there are grounds for maintaining that family size has some independent influence on the existence of communal democracy.

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Document number 732 is a duplicate

Samples

Sample Used Coded Data Comment
Ethnographic Atlas (EA)Researchers' Own

Hypotheses (1)

HypothesisSupported
Communities composed of smaller families, as opposed to larger families, will have elected (formal or informal) leadership.Supported
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