ABSTRACT
This chapter tries to formulate some principles for describing cultural structure– defined as interorganism psychical behavior regularities. It also tries to specify kinds of psychical behaviors; certain aggregates, within the same individual, of such behaviors; certain aggregates, across different individuals, of such behaviors; and certain forms assumed by the coincidences, between individuals, of these behaviors and their aggregates. The chapter begins by distinguishing between cognitive, cathectic, and conative modes of orientation. The important point, however, is that the participant has more than one expectation in mind for every norm component, and thus norms can reduce but cannot eliminate the individual's cognitive, conative, and cathectic uncertainty. The chapter discusses a typology of individual psychical behaviors, three successively higher levels of within-individual aggregates of such behaviors: norms, role-expectations, and role-expectation sets. It examines the double function of the normative consequence expectation–as a value and as a validity-check.
