Socia Hutterites Organizational Structure

Abstract Societal structures shape and tie individual to the organization. It exemplified actions, beliefs, and characters of human beings in an effective organized behavior. For the Hutterites, the configuration allowed continuous maintenance of their current lifestyle through strong foundation of faith with little influence of the outside world. Origin of human language has been a topic of many discussions with no clear agreement, with different propositions regarding brain size and religion serving as possible evidence. Every culture has recognized beliefs and practices built around the existence of human and non-human entities with supernatural abilities widespread within and outside cultural societies. Sociobiology is based on evolution of
With that in mind, one can say that they fall under the chiefdom’s organizational structure. Chiefdom means that “there is still no one central authority over the whole society, but because there are more individual units making up the society, there are numerous central authorities, the chiefs, who lead groups of those individual units”(Berk, 2009, p. 276). Since there is no main political government, everyday decision regarding the community is made by the minister or Prediger along with other elected leaders (Organizational Structure, 2012). More specifically, “within each colony, there is a clear authority structure: (1) the colony; (2) the Gemein (church) composed of all baptized adults; (3) the council of five to seven men which serves as the colony's executive board; (4) the informal council of some council members which makes day-to-day decisions; (5) the head preacher ("elder") who serves as the contact with the outside world; and the Diener der Notdurft (steward or boss) who is the Economic manager of the colony” (Countries and Their Culture,