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social system

social system

10 3.9
A group of people with shared rules and roles for living together
  • noun
  • /ˈsoʊʃəl ˈsɪstəm/
translation icon : sistema social
  • I think it's a window into how complex social systems are that involve humans.
  • political and social system
  • economic and social system
  • hierarchical social system

I think it's a window into how complex social systems are that involve humans.

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Examples

  • For another, artists and radicals do not see the whole truth about the social system.

    Academic text (1993)
  • The aspects of the social system that we're focusing on are the institutions that influence what people do.

  • We cannot change the political or the social system of the world unless we change inside of us as individuals.

  • Now a social system can work in some countries because progress or success means people not starving to death.

  • The model shows interaction between the individual and academic and social systems of the college.

    Academic text (1990)
  • The act of students becoming members of college social systems is vital to student retention.

    Academic text (2011)
  • In essence, the social learning that occurs in a particular social system will be influenced by these factors.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Pogger's new model says that human rights give us duties to organise our social systems in a certain way.

  • In Tinto's theoretical model, social system integration is as important as that of the academic system.

    Academic text (1990)
  • In different cultural, political, and social systems, various forms of the family exist.

Synonyms

social structure
vssocial system
15 3.7

An organized way people and groups like families and governments are connected in a society

focuses on a particular group of people and their roles rather than broad institutions
social organization
vssocial system
  • Specialized
4 3.7

The way people in a group relate to each other and have different roles

refers specifically to a group of people seen as an organized unit

Antonyms

79 6.5

A situation with no government and much disorder

How Organized

social system
10 3.9
group
1.0
collection
93 1.9

Surface Forms

social system singular

Morphology

social + system

The phrase 'social system' is a straightforward adjectival modification where 'social' (relating to society) restricts 'system' (an organized set), so the overall meaning — an organized structure of social relations or institutions — is directly derivable from the constituent words. This adjective+noun compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English semantics, making it immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.

Etymology

Social system comes from the idea that social means people and system means parts working together, like a village where each person has a job. So that simple picture of people in set 'roles' and 'relationships' helps explain why social system means an organized group with set patterns of how people relate to each other.