ABSTRACT
Social structure provides a framework within which joint action can be carried on with minimum difficulty. Some sociologists attach great importance to such highly formalized sanctions and have even defined the organized group as one in which the social structure is protected and reinforced through formal sanctions. Sociology is the study of groups. There are many kinds of groups, and one inclusive way of conceiving of them is in terms of concerted action. The organized group is only one of many kinds of human collectivities. It has fairly stable and identifiable personnel. Most of the systematic studies conducted by anthropologists and sociologists are confined to organized groups, depicting them in their community settings or analyzing some particular aspect of their organization. In the study of organized groups it is sometimes useful to isolate some of the constituent phases of recurrent transactions.
