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Society organizes itself around physical things, as well as around social relations and cultural symbols. Social relations enacted with respect to things define a meaning of those things for society. A society’s character may be known from the way it draws the physical into its activity.
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Klausner, S.Z. (1977). Energy and the Structuring of Society. In: Altman, I., Wohlwill, J.F. (eds) Human Behavior and Environment. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0808-9_6
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