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The research material for the analyzes presented in the article is “The Gardeners” community outlined by Margaret Atwood in MaddAddam trilogy. The literary record illustrates here the specific form of social microstructure operating in the world of modern utopia; it illustrates the complex nature of the structural levels of social reality. The aim of the study is to analyze the distinguished community in the perspective of the ontological assumptions of sociological structuralism – with particular emphasis being given on the dependencies resulting from the adoption of the close and distant categories of perspective. The author also refers to Emile Durkheim’s theory of social ties, emphasizing the importance of mechanical and organic solidarity as special properties organizing the functioning of the community.