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Definition: Social Structure |
Social StructureNoun1. 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 StructureSynonyms: social organization (n), social system (n), structure (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Social Structure |
| English words defined with "social structure": caste system ♦ naked mole rat. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "social structure": Socioeconomic Factors, Sociology, Medical. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | But 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. |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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. | |
| 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 estrutura social. (various references) estructura social. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6F 63 69 61 6C      53 74 72 75 63 74 75 72 65 |
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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)S o c i a l   S t r u c t u r e |
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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