Family Size and Community Organization: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

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

Even though the association is weak, further tests suggest that there are still grounds to maintain the existence of a significant relationship.

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Fisher's Exact Test	Supported	p < .001	-0.192	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Communal Leadership	Dependent	Community Structure, Community Heads
Family Size	Independent	Nuclear Family, Extended Families

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Bondarenko, Dmitri	2000	"Communities composed of small families will have an elected (formally or informally) leadership significantly more than communities composed of large extended families" (159).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Garfield, Zachary H.	2019	Leadership will be positively associated with intelligence, knowledgeable men, polygyny, large families and more/higher quality mating opportunities.	Partially Supported	6	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Bondarenko, Dmitri M.	2004	Among state societies, those with extended family structures will be less likely to have democratic communal leadership structures than those with nuclear family structures.	Marginally Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Bondarenko, Dmitri M.	2004	Among societies with less than two levels of political hierarchy, those with large extended family structures will be less likely to have democratic communal leadership structures than those with nuclear family structures.	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Bondarenko, Dmitri M.	2004	Among societies with small mean community sizes, those with extended family structures will be less likely to have democratic communal leadership structures than those with nuclear family structures.	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author