and negotiation in peer groups (where instruction is a latent function).
3. Producing and distributing goods and services. Any relatively permanent group or society must provide and distribute desired goods and services for its members. Each society establishes a set of rules for the allocation of financial and other resources. The grup must satisfy the needs of most members at least to some extent, or it will risk the possibility of discontent and, ultimately, disorder.
4. Preserving order. The native people of Tasmania, a large island just south of Australia, are now extinct. During the 1800s, they were destroyed by the hunt- ing parties of European conquerors, who looked upon the Tasmanians as half human. This annihila- tion underscores a critical function of every group or society-preserving order and protecting itself from attack. The Tasmanians were unable to defend them-