ABSTRACT
As soon as a group of people participate in an activity they are faced with the need for procedures which will order the operation of that activity. On a small scale this may be generated and developed locally. Where the activity involves interaction with another party, however, particularly a bureaucracy, or where the scope of the internally generated activity is large, this will involve a degree of input by people who understand the procedures and the form and structure of the activity, but who are not necessarily directly associated with the group. The subsequent intervention in the community’s activity is different from the situation described for the arena of consensus, wherein different actors are pursuing their own legitimate agendas and, in the process, interacting with the community activity.
