social organization

1. 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”

   Synonymssocial organisationsocial structuresocial systemstructure

   Broadersystem

   Narrowerfeudalismpatriarchymatriarchymeritocracypluralismclass structuresegregation

   Part ofsociety

Questions about social organization

What does social organization mean?

social organization means "the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships".

What is another word for social organization?

Close synonyms include social organisation, social structure, social system, structure. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is social organization a common word?

social organization is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.