ABSTRACT
IN CONCLUDING his volume on social structure, the late Professor Nadel remarked that it seems impossible to speak of social structure in the singular. Analysis in terms of structure "is incapable of presenting whole societies; nor, which means the same, can any society be said to exhibit an embracing coherent structure as we understand the term. There are always cleavages, dissociations, enclaves, so that any description alleged to present a single structure will in fact present only a fragmentary or one-sided picture."1
