ABSTRACT
IN CHAPTER 9 WE CONSIDERED the community as a behaving entity, a human aggregate having collective experience and a collective memory. We noted that a community can behave with pride, or sentimentally, and that it can rally as an entity in a crisis. In this chapter we are directing our attention to the day-to-day behavior within a community. Many kinds of activities go on within the community and these make up its life. Much of this activity is to a purpose, but there are many kinds of activities and many different purposes. Goals are constantly being reached and efforts toward other goals begun; things are accomplished. We are now to consider how "things get done."
