Develops an analysis of law as a network of small group interaction, using the constitution of a particular experimental group confined for about three months in a penthouse on the Berkeley campus of the University of California as an illustration. (JM)

Notes that to the extent to which solutions to major worldwide distributive problems require a cooperative-communal orientation, such solutions will not be achieved as long as the economic sphere and socializing agents persist in viewing agency-equity-competition as the natural state of mankind. (Author/AM)

It is proposed that the sex composition of a group affects the sex-role awareness and sex-related responses of its members, and that such effects can operate even when there is no actual or anticipated verbal interaction among group members. (Author/AM)