social structure
Example Sentences
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He examined the animals’ social structures and survival tactics.
The law stipulates that under the "right to self-identity", settlements are entitled to protect and preserve their "social structure".
From Barron's
Armajani’s unusual earthwork joined in: Embracing a legal, bureaucratic form, he pointed to land as a decidedly social structure.
From Los Angeles Times
What astonished him was their complex social structure, and evidence of what he believed to be signs of altruism.
From BBC
The show’s thorough, wonderfully readable catalog refers to the power of “funerary magnificence” in the kingdom’s social structure.
From Los Angeles Times
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