The function of male initiation ceremonies: a cross-cultural test of an alternative hypothesis

"[There is a] relation between male solidarity and initiation ceremonies..."(384)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Goodman and Kruskal's Lambda	Supported	`UNKNOWN`	.70	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Initiation Ceremonies	Dependent	Puberty And Initiation
Male Solidarity	Independent	Sodalities

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Young, Frank W.	1965	"As male solidarity is more institutionalized, the elaboration of initiation ceremonies increases" (74)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Young, Frank W.	1962	"The two aspects of what may not be labeled 'absent-father family organization' have no empirical relation to initiation ceremonies when male solidarity is controlled" (386)	Supported	4	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Young, Frank W.	1965	"Male solidarity dissolves the relationship between the two childhood factors [exclusive mother-son sleeping arrangement and patrilocal residence] and male initiation" (77)	Supported	4	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Young, Frank W.	1965	"There is an association between male solidarity [and type of female household organization]" (93)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Young, Frank W.	1965	"Those subsistence tasks in which all or almost all the men participated operated as alternative forms of solidarity" (69)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author