ABSTRACT
Imperative coordination is the result of the fact that a certain social group has been polarized, has become a power structure: within such a group men act in accordance with orders issued by the active center. Every power structure is a specific coordination of human behavior. The complex coordination of behavior in the basis of power is possible because of the differentiation of power structures, making them dissimilar and helping them to become permeable to each other, and the integration of power structures, based upon the principle of hierarchy. From the viewpoint of social activity determined by power structures, the latter may be divided into two main classes, specialized and generalized. A differentiation of power structures, from the viewpoint of the relative dimensions of the active center and the passive periphery, seems to conform to the well-known Aristotelian classification of States into three groups, based on whether the rule was of the one, of the Few or of the Many.
