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Firth, one of leading formalists, does 3-level analysis:
1. social structure
2. social organization
3. individual decision making
(note Firth started life as an economist)
if compare above w/ a chess game, soc. org. is your strategies, soc. str. the rules of the game

substantivists tend to stop at social str or the rules of the game 

re kula, note that 
- have to be[[strikethrough]] e [[strikethrough]] brought in as young [[strikethrough]] by [[strikethrough]] boy, usually by s.o., i.e. your father, giving you a valuable
- imp. man had many kula partners & the more imp. the better the valuables that
- can [[strikethrough]] ca [[/strikethrough]] conduct reg. trade w/ kula partner


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drawing included, page 17