social structure
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The law stipulates that under the "right to self-identity", settlements are entitled to protect and preserve their "social structure".
From Barron's • Oct. 20, 2025
What astonished him was their complex social structure, and evidence of what he believed to be signs of altruism.
From BBC • Sep. 25, 2025
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps lost its commander, but the corps itself survives, and it controls much of the country’s economy and social structure.
From Slate • Jun. 17, 2025
“People are anxious, people are suffering, people are in distress. They don’t understand how to think about the future. And they can’t rely on the social structure and leaders.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2024
That social structure is ideal for domestication, because humans in effect take over the dominance hierarchy.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
