ABSTRACT
At the roots of the human community lie the brute facts of social life: organization. It has been suggested that life and the potential for life are coterminous with matter. In like manner, it is probably true that some kind of social organization is coterminous with life: society is a universal. And society begins with interaction and the mutual modification of behavior. Such interaction, in turn, becomes patterned by the nature of the activity which calls it into being; it is structured. Certain structures are partly defined by the spatial scene they occur in; through interaction emerge shared perspectives and commitments to the place and its group-that is, the community.
