Human beings have two outstanding characteristics compared to all other species:
the apparently enormous elaboration of our thought through language and
symbolism and the elaboration of our forms of social organization. The view
taken in Human Thought and Social Organization: Anthropology on a New Plane is
that these are intimately interconnected. To understand this connection, the
book compares the structure of the systems of thought that organizations are
built upon with the organizational basis of human thinking as such. An
experimental method is used, leading to a new science of the structure of human
social organizations in two senses. First, it gives rise to a new kind