social structure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsocialandstructure
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social
adjective
uk/ˈsəʊ.ʃəl/us/ˈsoʊ.ʃəl/
relating to activities in which you meet and spend time with other people and that happen during the time when you are ...
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structure
noun
uk/ˈstrʌk.tʃər/us/ˈstrʌk.tʃɚ/
the way in which the parts of a system or object are arranged or organized, or a system arranged in ...
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(Definition ofsocialandstructurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It confers legitimacy to an oligarchicalsocialstructure.
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Comparative perspectives on housing, aging, andsocialstructure.
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Socialstructureand the individual : emerging themes and new directions.
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The comparison is between scientific theory andsocialstructure.
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Thesocialstructureof the rural sector became more complicated.
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Interaction is based upon the position within thesocialstructure.
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The second sociological contribution is an emphasis onsocialstructure.
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The section that follows describes thesocialstructureof pillarization.
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Exploringsocialstructureusing dynamic threedimensional color images.
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Yetsocialstructureis not totally absent from communitas.
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The present circumstance is the outcome of thesocialstructure.
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The household was the basic unit of bannersocialstructure.#!
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The expressive theory implies that changingsocialstructurewill determine changing patterns of party allegiance.
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In particular, the network approach highlights the effects ofsocialstructureon patterns of communication.
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Let us contrast this homogeneous picture with the diversifiedsocialstructurein the late nineteenth century.
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Socialstructureand the phenology of growth and reproduction in this species is currently under investigation.
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These changes may relate to changes in thesocialstructureof a society.
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Althoughsocialstructuremay have helped mould officeholding, it did not actually determine it.
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The specific influence ofsocialstructureof host population could be tested through adapted mathematical modelling.
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The other two books focus more onsocialstructureand the economy.
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He also deals with the pastoralists'socialstructureand their religious beliefs.
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In his view, political consciousness derives from, and is a re-ection of,socialstructure.
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This definition supposes a direct link between burial ritual andsocialstructure.
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This demographic experience was bound to have considerable impact on localsocialstructure.
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