ABSTRACT
By ‘social organization’ here is meant the relations between social groups which have a certain ordered arrangement in the community. This is usually called by most anthropologists ‘social structure’. We shall deal not only with the expected or ideal pattern of relations between the groups or the individuals, but also with their realization in concrete social behaviour. As Malinowski has emphasized, one must not only consider the ‘charter’ of the institutions and their traditional norms governing human conduct; it is equally important to study the real activities which may differ from the prescribed expectations owing to specific social pressure. 1 Moreover, ‘social organization’ will also include the ‘social controls’ that maintain ‘law and order in the community’ as well as the religious and magical sanctions which serve to validate social action.
