ABSTRACT
The structure of a society, which enables individuals to have specified roles and formal relationships to others, can be seen to be the outcome of the adoption of closures of authority and the consequent formation of institutions. Each institution generates its own set of closures, its own institutional space.The aim in this section is to account for the character of this institutional space, and its relationship to personal and cultural space; and thereby to elaborate how social organisation is a product of closure. By this means I hope to cast light on the mechanism by which society develops, its means for avoiding conflict, and its goal or direction.
