social orders
- plural of social order.
Example Sentences
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They’re smart, capable women who are less concerned with dismantling established social orders than they are with keeping their home and family intact.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
The effect of Ernaux’s diary is to make this clear: These are the places where life happens, where the social orders are made apparent and reinforced, where societies are “built.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2023
In turn, the social orders were starkly divided, not just by wealth but by law and custom as well.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
The 1940s sundered the 20th century, dispatching an entire global framework and any number of abiding social orders to the ashcan of history.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 28, 2018
To the cavalry, which was composed largely of the higher social orders, the rebels were, in addition, bourgeois, while the soldiers of fortune from the German wars felt all the regular’s contempt for citizen militia.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
