schneider himself emphasised a distinction between the notion of a social relationship as intrinsically "given" and inalienable ("from birth"), and a social relationship as created, constituted and maintained by a process of interaction, or "doing" (schneider 1984, 165). schneider used the example of the citamangen / fak relationship in yap society, that his own early research had previously glossed over as a "father / son" relationship, to illustrate the problem;