ABSTRACT
With the expansion of the field of the sociology of organizations have come many attempts to provide typologies. The relevance of the sociology of organizations to medical services has been thoroughly examined by Scott and by Susser. While psychology, sociology and economics have developed sophisticated methods to test hypotheses, anthropology traditionally has been the unkempt country cousin, manure footing it along with unmanageable data. The relations between the conceptually distinct elements were treated as matters for empirical study. Our approach has thus been piecemeal and analytical as opposed to holistic. Investigations describing non-industrial and non-govemmental organizations have appeared in the literature from time to time - but these have tended to stand alone as isolated classics, unrepeated and unintegrated.
