A stable pattern of social organization or behavior.
recurrent and patterned relationships existing among components of a social system.
Social structure or social organization pertains to the stable, ongoing patters of social interaction. Each society creates patterns of interaction appropriate to relationships such as parent-child, supervisor-employee, teacher-student, etc. Behavior is regulated through social controls and shared cultural values (Freund and McGuire 1995:4-5).
(p. 15) any relatively stable pattern of social behavior
Societies are "divided" generally into two components - social structure and social processes - that interpenetrate each other; i.e., are dialectically interrelated. The key to understanding social structure in a society is understanding its social institutions and their intertwining combinations. Social structure is the institutional framework that makes for order in daily, weekly, and yearly interaction between people. It is social institutions that promote the necessary order to make social structure possible.
ordered interrelationships that are characteristic of particular societies, such as its class structure or system of economic or political relations.
The distinctive arrangement of institutions whereby human beings in a society interact and are able to live together.
the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships; "the social organization of England and America is very different"; "sociologists have studied the changing structure of the family"
The stable pattern of social relationships that exist within a particular group or society.
See Social structure of the United States for an explanation of concept's exsistance within US society.