Each social group’s optimal internal structure varies with its members’ culture and discipline.

Evidence

The theorem can be seen in application politically in parties, trade unions or factories. It is also possible to see how each social group has its own law of fixed proportions, which varies according to the level of its culture, independence of mind, spirit of initiative and sense of responsibility, and according to the degree of discipline of its most backward and peripheral members. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 784

Categorization

• XREF: This anticipates Gramsci’s later treatment of hegemony and organic intellectuals — the ratio between leaders and led/followers is conditioned by the cultural self-discipline of the group’s periphery. — connects to: Effective social groups are constrained to an optimal intermediate size.; Member participation emerges from ideology and culture, not structure alone — Adrian Josef Amon, Organizing the study of degeneration…, 83; Social structure and individual agency are mutually constitutive, not opposed
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Effective social groups are constrained to an optimal intermediate size.; Member participation emerges from ideology and culture, not structure alone — Adrian Josef Amon, Organizing the study of degeneration…, 83; Social structure and individual agency are mutually constitutive, not opposed