social organization

noun

1

: the kinship structure of a culture or society especially as constituted in a stabilized network of rules of descent and residence

2

a

: the system of relationships between persons and among groups with regard to the division of activity and the functional arrangement of mutual obligations within society

b

: the broad institutional interrelationships in a society

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