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social organization

social organization

4 3.7
The way people in a group relate to each other and have different roles
  • noun
  • /ˈsoʊʃəl ˌɔrɡənaɪˈzeɪʃən/
  • Specialized
translation icon : organización social
  • How does a society willingly accept changes that strike at the base of social organization?
  • form of social organization
  • structure of social organization
  • patterns of social organization

Insurgent Black social life and the party as an improvised and celebratory mode of social organization.

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Examples

  • Because of these traits, the family lies at the root of many vast social organizations (42-43).

    Academic text (1991)
  • I was looking at the social organization in their land tenure system.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • We identified a band as the minimal named unit of social organization.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Finally, civil society developed from changes in social organization, some of which were linked to economic transformation.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Envy is a human condition, but it is most destructive of social organization.

    Academic text (1991)
  • There is a widely felt need for group action amid a vacuum of social organization and experienced leadership.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Events in the early twentieth century produced many changes in Air Tuareg political and social organization.

    Academic text (1992)
  • More profoundly, it is a conflict between two systems of ethics, reflecting two patterns of social organization.

    Academic text (1999)
  • The old path of Managalase kinship and social organization provided a flexible web of multiple kin group affiliations.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Hi Neighbors is a social organization that is open to all women of Atascocita and surrounding areas.

Synonyms

structure
vssocial organization
790 3.5

How parts are arranged in a system like a society or text

applies specifically to people relationships and roles within society
social structure
vssocial organization
15 3.7

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

focuses more on the system that arranges people and their roles
social system
vssocial organization
10 3.9

A group of people with shared rules and roles for living together

is about how those relationships and roles organize people in society

How Complex

bureaucracy
187 6.3
social organization
  • Specialized
4 3.7
institution
482 3.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

social + organization

The meaning is directly and transparently derived from 'social' (relating to society or communal relationships) + 'organization' (a collective or structured group). This noun-noun combination follows ordinary compositional patterns and has clear equivalents in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE meaning.

Etymology

Social organization combines social, from a word for 'friends' or people who belong together, and organization, the act of arranging parts so they work as one. Picture a team or a house where each person has a role and a place — that image shows why it means the 'structure and roles that organize people in a group'.