A group of people in a small store perform a common set of activities.

They are consumers.
They are users of language.
They are translators of cultural traits into physiological facts.
They are translators of anatomical structures into physiological facts.
They are also transformers of these facts into laws.
They make these facts proliferate around them.
They animate them.

Thus, their bodies become a collection of ridges and fractures in the space of a social texture.