A term characteristic of functional analysis. The social system consists of both a social structure of interrelated institutions, statuses, and roles and the functioning of that structure in terms of social actions and human interactions.

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"

a complex set of human relationships interacting in many ways

a structuring of events or happenings rather than of physical parts and it therefore has no structure apart from its functioning

a network of roles and role relationships.