social structure

Questions about social structure

What does social structure mean?

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

What is another word for social structure?

Close synonyms include social organization, social organisation, 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 structure a common word?

social structure 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.