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social structure

[ soh-shuhl struhk-cher ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

Sociology.
1. the system or complex of beliefs held by members of a social group.
2. the system of relations between the constituent groups of a society.
3. the relationship between or the interrelated arrangement of the social institutions of a society or culture, as of mores, marriage customs, or family.
4. the pattern of relationships, as of status or friendship, existing among the members of a group or society.

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First recorded in 1825–35

One blames black Americans as a race; the other, racism as a social structure.

While many Hawaiians still secretly worshipped the old gods, kapu was dead as a public pillar of the social structure.

The old social structure had been disrupted in the civil convulsion, and the old political order likewise.

Trask's efforts to explain the political and social structure of the Sword-Worlds met the same incomprehension from Bentrik.

From thence they were sent by ship to Europe, and the great social structure they had erected fell forthwith to the ground.

Bentham's method may be applicable at a given moment, when the social structure is already consolidated and uniform.

In the inchoate phase of their development they are but different aspects of the same general facts of social structure.

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