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Definition of Social structure
1. Noun. The people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships. "Sociologists have studied the changing structure of the family"
Group relationships: Society
Specialized synonyms: Feudal System, Feudalism, Patriarchate, Patriarchy, Matriarchate, Matriarchy, Meritocracy, Pluralism, Class Structure, Segregation, Separatism
Member holonyms: Form Of Government, Political System
Generic synonyms: Scheme, System
Lexicographical Neighbors of Social Structure
Literary usage of Social structure
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. General Sociology: An Exposition of the Main Development in Sociological by Albion Woodbury Small (1905)
"Although we speak the language of evolution, the notion of social structure has
certainly dominated all the social sciences during the past fifty years. ..."
2. General Sociology: An Exposition of the Main Development in Sociological by Albion Woodbury Small (1905)
"I. social structure.'—Several of the concepts in the present schedule have come
into conscious use in sociology rather late. They have been forced upon our ..."
3. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1921)
"Other sorts of societies, and development in other countries, 378 — Sec. 4.
Cooperation in production would most affect the social structure, but has had ..."
4. Publication of the American Sociological Society by American Sociological Association (1918)
"THE social structure OF THE NORTHERN ALGONKIAN FRANK G. SPECK University of
Pennsylvania Investigators have now come generally to accept the fact that among ..."
5. Calcutta Review by University of Calcutta (1844)
"The present paper peeps into the literature we have on Bengal's rural social
structure. This kind of survey is useful for any social anthropologist who is ..."
6. The Government of American Cities by William Bennett Munro (1917)
"CHAPTER II THE social structure OF THE CITY THE modern city is roughly definable
as a body of population massed in a small area. ..."
7. The Government of American Cities by William Bennett Munro (1913)
"CHAPTER II THE social structure OF THE CITY THE modern city is roughly definable
as a body of popu- The city u lation massed in a small area. ..."
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