The community is the smallest territorial group that can embrace all aspects of social life. According to Macabre and Page, the bases of community are locality and community sentiment. Merton views social structure as comprising "the patterned arrangements or role-sets, status-sets, and status sequences." The Indian village community for example is a living institution having nearly everything it wants within itself, having its own village assembly, watch and ward, officials, and servants. The village is an independent unit. The shape of the social structure of the village community is largely determined by kinship, caste, and territorial affinity.