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social_structure
has definitions from the field of sociology
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[ noun ] (sociology) the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships
Examples "the social organization of England and America is very different" "sociologists have studied the changing structure of the family" Used in print (Frank Oppenheimer, "Science and Fear-- A Discussion...)Will advances in human sciences help us build social_structures and governments which will enable us to cope_with people as_effectively_as the primitive combination of protein and nucleic_acid built a structure of molecules which enabled it to adapt to a sea of molecular interaction ? (Max F. Millikan and Donald L. M. Blackmer,...)American and free-world policies can marginally affect the pace of transition ; but basically that pace depends_on changes in the supply of resources and in the human attitudes , political institutions , and social_structure which each society must generate . |
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