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Social Structure

Definition: Social Structure

Social Structure

Noun

1. The people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships; "the social organization of England and America is very different"; "sociologists have studied the changing structure of the family".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Social Structure

Synonyms: social organization (n), social system (n), structure (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Social Structure

English words defined with "social structure": caste systemnaked mole rat. (references)
Specialty definitions using "social structure": Socioeconomic Factors, Sociology, Medical. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Social Structure

DomainTitle

Books

  • An Essay on Culture: Symbolic Structure and Social Structure (reference)

  • Punishment and Social Structure (reference)

  • Social Capital : A Theory of Social Structure and Action (reference)

  • Social Structure and Network Analysis (reference)

  • Social Theory and Social Structure (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Social Structure

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Solomon Islands

Most Solomon Islanders maintain this traditional social structure and find their roots in village life. (references)

Papua New Guinea

Most Papua New Guineans still adhere strongly to this traditional social structure, which has its roots in village life. (references)

Chile

The political revolt brought little social change, however, and 19th century Chilean society preserved the essence of the stratified colonial social structure, which was greatly influenced by family politics and the Roman Catholic Church. (references)

Human Rights

Syria

For example, the Emergency Law authorizes the prosecution of anyone "opposing the goals of the revolution," "shaking the confidence of the masses in the aims of the revolution," or attempting to "change the economic or social structure of the State." Nonetheless the Government contends that the SSSC tries only persons who have sought to use violence against the State. (references)

Indigenous People

Indonesia

NGO's assert that violations of the rights of indigenous people are frequent in the mining and logging areas, and that violations stem from the Government's denial of ownership by indigenous people of ancestral land, erosion of indigenous groups' traditional social structure, and forced takeover of land. (references)

Political Economy

India

Many of these abuses are generated by a traditionally hierarchical social structure, deeply rooted tensions among the country's many ethnic and religious communities, violent secessionist movements and the authorities' attempts to repress them, and deficient police methods and training. (references)

Worker Rights

Niger

Persons are born into a traditionally subordinate caste and are expected to work without pay for those above them in the traditional social structure. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Social Structure

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989But we can not have such reform while our tax policy is engineered by people who view the tax as a means of achieving changes in our social structure.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Social Structure

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

social structure

27

aztec edu history social structure

2

class social structure

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Social Structure

Language Translations for "social structure"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

socialstruktur. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

social structure. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

yhteiskuntarakenne. (various references)

   

French

  

structure sociale. (various references)

   

German

  

Sozialstruktur. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κοινωνική διάρθρωση, κοινωνική δομή. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

tata masyarakat. (various references)

   

Italian

  

struttura sociale. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ocialsay ucturestray

   

Portuguese

  

estrutura social. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

estructura social. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Social Structure

Misspellings

"Social Structure" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sicial structure. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Social Structure

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-i-l-o-r-r-s-s-t-t-u-u"

-3 letters: resuscitator, ultraserious.

-4 letters: circulators, crustaceous, elutriators, rusticators, staurolites.

-5 letters: auteurists, carrotiest, carrousels, circulates, circulator, cocultures, coruscates, courtliest, couturiers, curiousest, curtailers, elutriator, literators, occultists, ocularists, rusticates, rusticator, sclerotics, scurrilous, secularist, staurolite, strictures, structural, structures, surrealist, testicular, traitoress, trisectors.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-i-l-o-r-r-s-s-t-t-u-u"
 

+4 letters: counterculturalisms.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Social Structure


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 6F 63 69 61 6C      53 74 72 75 63 74 75 72 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101111 01100011 01101001 01100001 01101100 00100000 01010011 01110100 01110010 01110101 01100011 01110100 01110101 01110010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#111 &#99 &#105 &#97 &#108 &#32 &#83 &#116 &#114 &#117 &#99 &#116 &#117 &#114 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006F 0063 0069 0061 006C      0053 0074 0072 0075 0063 0074 0075 0072 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5381697567782538684876986878471

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Quotations: Speeches
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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