social organization

American  

noun

Sociology.

1. the structure of social relations within a group, usually the relations between its subgroups and institutions.

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social organization British  

noun

1. sociol the formation of a stable structure of relations inside a group, which provides a basis for order and patterns relationships for new members

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Example Sentences

The Rose Parade started in 1890 as a promotional event by the Valley Hunt Club, a social organization, to show off Pasadena’s famously mild winter weather.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2024

According to Hal Whitehead, who has pioneered research on social organization and cultural transmission in deep-water whales since the 1970s, researchers began studying sperm whale codas by comparing them to Morse code.

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2024

A glaring hiccup in the current quota structure is that it fosters an environment prone to overharvesting cougars, which impacts their abundance and social organization.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 20, 2024

More than half of the primate species recorded in the database exhibited more than one form of social organization.

From Science Daily • Jan. 3, 2024

They lacked the financial means, the technology, and the social organization to maintain colonies so far from Europe.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz