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Noun: social structure
  1. The people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships
    "the social structure of England and America is very different";
    - social organization, social organisation [Brit], social system, structure

Derived forms: social structures

Type of: scheme, system

Part of: society

Encyclopedia: Social structure