ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with the general question of the nature of society and man's relation to society, or otherwise stated, with analyzing the concept of society and the relation of this concept to the concept of man. It discusses that the body will not relate specifically to the subject of voluntary associations. The chapter seems more appropriate to substitute expressions referring to some specific type of society, e.g., family, partnership, nation. It explores the categorical structure of society rather than the features of specific types of existing societies. The conviction that society is some reality which is not reducible to the members of society reflects itself in the social sciences in terms of what has been called methodological holism. Society is a relation among persons bound together by rules which govern their interactions and which give rise to rights and obligations.
