Population growth, society, and culture: an inventory of cross-culturally tested causal hypotheses

HRAF Press New Haven, CT Published In Pages: 126
By Sipes, Richard G.

Hypothesis

Importance of inheritance will be positively associated with Population Growth Rate (PGR) (56).

Note

Importance of inheritance measured by composite of 25 different variables, including inheritance of patrilineal name, membership, formal title, social status, and property, inheritance of matrilineal name, membership, formal title, and social status, inheritance of nonunilineal name, membership, formal title, social status, and property, directness of name, membership, formal title, social status, and property inheritance, concentration of title, social status, and property inheritance, and scope of inheritance.

Test

Test NameSupportSignificanceCoefficientTail
GammaNot Supportedp = 0.42gamma = 0.04UNKNOWN

Variables

Variable NameVariable Type OCM Term(s)
Population Growth RateDependentPopulation
Importance of InheritanceIndependentInheritance