34 SOCIAL SCIENTIST the community must involve some notion of interdependence, some account of the necessity of pooling in distinct and complementary skills. It also follows that a theory of social democracy must give due place to a relevant notion of authority which is distinct from and irreducible to technocratic or bureaucratic power. NOTES 1. Cornelius Castoriadis, Political and Social Writings, Vol. 2, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1988, pp. 95-101. 2. Charles Taylor, Philosophical Papers, Vol. 2, Cambridge University Press, 1985, pp. 187-210. 3. Note that items in the world could be objects, persons, activities, processes, events, states of affairs, situations. They could be concrete particulars or be typical and abstract. 4. Hilary Putnam, Philosophical Papers, Vol. 2, Cambridge University Press, 1975, pp. 215-271. 5. The discussion of Positional Goods is available in Martin Hollis, The Cunning Reason, Cambridge University Press, 1987, p. 52.