Alan Page Fiske is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and known for creating the relational models theory. His notable publications include Structures of Social Life (1991), Virtuous Violence (2014, with Tage Shakti Rai), and Kama Muta: Discovering the Connecting Emotion (2020).

'Alan Fiske is among the grandest scholars in the social sciences and this book is the magnificent summation of his life's work. He shows you the four basic models of human relationships that are the keys to understanding how people work together to create almost everything: families, friendships, teams, companies, governments … and misunderstandings. This book will give you something akin to X-ray vision into social life, institutions, customs, and the drama of human affairs.' Jonathan Haidt, Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership, New York University, USA, and author of The Anxious Generation

• Acknowledgements; Part I. Modes of Minding Social Action: Bodily Indices of Unity, Dimensional Icons of Rank, Concrete Operations of Equality, Arbitrary Symbols of Proportions: 1. Meaning to relate; 2. The Moosé of Burkina Faso; 3. The modalities of the four conformation system; Part II. Consubstantial Assimilation: The Conformation System of Communal Sharing: 4. Indexically conforming communal sharing by substance-sharing; 5. Shared surfaces, motion, and fear; Part III. Iconic Dimensions and Magnitudes: The Conformation System of Authority Ranking: 6. Your highness; 7. Architectural mass, volume, surface area, and elevation; 8. In front, more numerous, earlier, and greater force; 9. Luminosity and loudness; 10. The dimensions and magnitudes that conform authority ranking; 11. Iconic conformations in language; 12. Experimental research on western adults' and infants' cognitive representations of rank; 13. The biology of iconic dimensions and magnitudes; Part IV. Concrete Operations that Make Persons Even: The Conformation System of Equality Matching: 14. Constituting equality matching; 15. Symbolic conformation of market pricing; 16. Contemplations; References.

Alan Page Fiske is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and known for creating the relational models theory. His notable publications include Structures of Social Life (1991), Virtuous Violence (2014, with Tage Shakti Rai), and Kama Muta: Discovering the Connecting Emotion (2020).

'Alan Fiske is among the grandest scholars in the social sciences and this book is the magnificent summation of his life's work. He shows you the four basic models of human relationships that are the keys to understanding how people work together to create almost everything: families, friendships, teams, companies, governments … and misunderstandings. This book will give you something akin to X-ray vision into social life, institutions, customs, and the drama of human affairs.' Jonathan Haidt, Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership, New York University, USA, and author of The Anxious Generation

• Acknowledgements; Part I. Modes of Minding Social Action: Bodily Indices of Unity, Dimensional Icons of Rank, Concrete Operations of Equality, Arbitrary Symbols of Proportions: 1. Meaning to relate; 2. The Moosé of Burkina Faso; 3. The modalities of the four conformation system; Part II. Consubstantial Assimilation: The Conformation System of Communal Sharing: 4. Indexically conforming communal sharing by substance-sharing; 5. Shared surfaces, motion, and fear; Part III. Iconic Dimensions and Magnitudes: The Conformation System of Authority Ranking: 6. Your highness; 7. Architectural mass, volume, surface area, and elevation; 8. In front, more numerous, earlier, and greater force; 9. Luminosity and loudness; 10. The dimensions and magnitudes that conform authority ranking; 11. Iconic conformations in language; 12. Experimental research on western adults' and infants' cognitive representations of rank; 13. The biology of iconic dimensions and magnitudes; Part IV. Concrete Operations that Make Persons Even: The Conformation System of Equality Matching: 14. Constituting equality matching; 15. Symbolic conformation of market pricing; 16. Contemplations; References.

Alan Page Fiske is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and known for creating the relational models theory. His notable publications include Structures of Social Life (1991), Virtuous Violence (2014, with Tage Shakti Rai), and Kama Muta: Discovering the Connecting Emotion (2020).

'Alan Fiske is among the grandest scholars in the social sciences and this book is the magnificent summation of his life's work. He shows you the four basic models of human relationships that are the keys to understanding how people work together to create almost everything: families, friendships, teams, companies, governments … and misunderstandings. This book will give you something akin to X-ray vision into social life, institutions, customs, and the drama of human affairs.' Jonathan Haidt, Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership, New York University, USA, and author of The Anxious Generation

• Acknowledgements; Part I. Modes of Minding Social Action: Bodily Indices of Unity, Dimensional Icons of Rank, Concrete Operations of Equality, Arbitrary Symbols of Proportions: 1. Meaning to relate; 2. The Moosé of Burkina Faso; 3. The modalities of the four conformation system; Part II. Consubstantial Assimilation: The Conformation System of Communal Sharing: 4. Indexically conforming communal sharing by substance-sharing; 5. Shared surfaces, motion, and fear; Part III. Iconic Dimensions and Magnitudes: The Conformation System of Authority Ranking: 6. Your highness; 7. Architectural mass, volume, surface area, and elevation; 8. In front, more numerous, earlier, and greater force; 9. Luminosity and loudness; 10. The dimensions and magnitudes that conform authority ranking; 11. Iconic conformations in language; 12. Experimental research on western adults' and infants' cognitive representations of rank; 13. The biology of iconic dimensions and magnitudes; Part IV. Concrete Operations that Make Persons Even: The Conformation System of Equality Matching: 14. Constituting equality matching; 15. Symbolic conformation of market pricing; 16. Contemplations; References.