social_system 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

(Dan McLachlan, Jr., "Communication Networks and...)

In any social_system in which communications have an importance comparable_with that of production and other human factors , a point like f in Figure 2 would ( other things being equal ) be the dwelling place for the community leader , while e and h would house the next most important citizens .

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