ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts conceptually to differentiate components and kinds of social structure–defined generically as the regular coincidence of two or more individual organisms' physical behaviors. Through all physical behaviors the individual's beliefs, desires, and skills are affected–some are constructed, some destroyed, some reinforced so that they may be carried in memory from one time and place to another. Extracting-fabricating behaviors include those which exploit (and/or pollute) the nonliving" natural resources" and transform them into wealth–that is, tools and weapons–and waste. The chapter includes "power" differences but excludes differences in" property", in "social evaluation," and in "psychic gratification," on the grounds that these are all cultural structural features. Cultural structuring behaviors include all those that are said to affect the minds of other people–and therefore to affect the psychical behavior regularities among them and/or between them and the behaving individual. Religious physical behavior – as well as more secular "educational" behavior–seems classifiable as cultural structuring behavior and its associated self-teaching behavior.
