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social structure

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noun

structure(def 9).

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RELATED WORDS

hierarchy, dominance, order, position, scale, grouping, placing, ranking

Nearby words

  1. social services,
  2. social settlement,
  3. social sharing,
  4. social statics,
  5. social stratification,
  6. social studies,
  7. social tagging,
  8. social unit,
  9. social war,
  10. social wasp

Origin of social structure

First recorded in 1825–35
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