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social structures

  • plural
    of social structure.
    social structure

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Read together, these novels circle the questions posed by “Lord of the Flies”: What are we human beings once the familiar social structures that sustain us fall away?

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

The island's isolation -- 2,000 kilometres east of the capital Jakarta -- has helped preserve these ancestral social structures.

From Barron's Jul. 21, 2026

The research is helping shift how scientists view pandemics, emphasizing not only how they begin and spread but also how they affect daily life and social structures.

From Science Daily Apr. 23, 2026

Dissociation, similar to disfellowshipping, now known as removal, is a process whereby followers are expelled from the religion, sometimes losing their family and social structures.

From BBC Apr. 12, 2026

Just as foragers exhibited a wide array of religions and social structures, so, too, did they probably demonstrate a variety of violence rates.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

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