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This chapter describes natural small-group cultures. It presents a study that explores the ways in which culture is ordered, that is, the way its inflow of information becomes nonrandom in groups and its outcome assumes a particular form. The interest then is with cultures, specifically group-cultures. The chapter elaborates Roberts' group-culture prototype, which concerns the ordering of the content of culture. Roberts' prototype is described as content-ordering group culture. It is argued that content-ordering inflow describes a working through or transformation of content into a particular outcome that is governed by the capacities of group-cultures to process information in a particular way. The chapter also elaborates task-ordering inflow that describes a working through or transformation toward a particular outcome that is governed by the capacities of group-cultures to process information that identifies or defines a region of activity in a group's external system. The outcome-directedness of this behavior generates the definition of intersecting regions between group and environment. |