ABSTRACT
The production of the subculture as a set of institutional frameworks for the everyday life of a small group is determined socially. The make-up of the group, its organization and its position with respect to the 'large' society characterize the subculture. The expression 'small' society, which this chapter refers to on several occasions during the course of our research, has several connotations that could hinder an accurate understanding of the opposition between the 'small' and 'large' societies. The transformation of the 'small' society, which is both localized and personalized, into a 'large' society, has not been completed. 'A self-regulating market requires nothing less than the institutional division of society into an economic sphere and a political sphere'. The symbiosis between the party and the State, a key point in the Soviet system, came about through the mixing of political, administrative, economic functions. Importation involves not only norms of law, but also strategies for economic behavior, and organization and political structures.
