ABSTRACT
Social research regularly involves problems that investigate the relationship between
individual and society. The general concept is that individuals interact with the social
contexts to which they belong, meaning that individual persons are influenced by the
social groups or contexts to which they belong, and that the properties of those groups are
in turn influenced by the individuals who make up that group. Generally, the individuals
and the social groups are conceptualized as a hierarchical system of individuals and
groups, with individuals and groups defined at separate levels of this hierarchical system.
Naturally, such systems can be observed at different hierarchical levels, and variables
