ABSTRACT

Construct, in your mind's eye, a pyramid. Divide it into four horizontal strata. Name them, from the bottom upward, territorial, economic, political, and cultural. Conceived in its simplest terms, the domain of man-in-society which is the province of inquiry and understanding of the social sciences, may thus be seen as a territorial and a social order, or to employ Robert E. Park's now classic phrase, "a spatial pattern and a moral order."