social structure
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3.7
- noun
- /ˈsoʊʃəl ˈstrʌkʧər/
:
estructura social
- In anthropology class, we studied different social structures and how they impact communities.
- social structure and political structures
- traditional social structure
- complex social structure
It's time to upend social structures that leave people feeling powerless.
- It's time to upend social structures that leave people feeling powerless.
- Those are the sorts of social structures that I think are good.
- I can't really consider books without considering these social structures, the spaces they make for us.
- So there's a social structure that's fundamental for language to develop.
- But so we're vaporizing our social structures.
- And it's very, very annoying because because it's self-evident that social structures are tyrannical.
- The second group deal with what is the relationship between social structure and spatial structure.
- So what we'll look at next week are two different kinds of justifications for various kinds of social structure.
- He's not even suggesting that we need to change society or social structures or relationships in any sort of revolutionary way.
- So the, the act of renaming any social structure, individual entity destroys the underlying coherence of that society.
- They are that's that's that's what our social structures have created.
- And so we are philosophically communist while we are social structure and economically not.
- Next week we will start with an examination of the relationship between social social structure and spatial structure.
- A moment, that is, that defies social structure.
Examples
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A strong social structure is essential for the stability and well-being of any society.
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But what about their social structure?
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The industrial revolution brought with it significant changes to the economic and social structures of society.
Academic text (1999) -
The crisis would be associated with the social structure of inner-city black communities.
Academic text (1992) -
Another promising approach might be to modify the social structure of the classroom.
Academic text (1999) -
Our social structure in this small town seems to teeter on a delicate balance, one which I certainly cannot in any way attempt to influence.
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What she accomplished in those years rested on a fragile social structure.
Academic text (2015) -
In the increasingly differentiated social structure, the middle class now constitutes almost 40 percent of the population.
Academic text (1992) -
Gradually, he began to combine his technological expertise with what he had learned about human behavior, sociology and social structure.
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However, in ancient Egypt, the social structure required a ready-and-willing force of considerable proportions.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
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3.9
A group of people with shared rules and roles for living together
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3.7
The way people in a group relate to each other and have different roles
Antonyms
How Complex
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'organized pattern of relationships and institutions' is directly derivable from combining 'social' (relating to society) with 'structure' (how parts are organized). This is a literal, compositional phrase found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should readily understand it.
Etymology
Social structure is like a building: social means the people and groups, and structure means the beams, rules and links that hold them together. So the phrase means 'how a society is held together'.