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What does social structure mean?

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  1. (sociology) A distinctive, stable arrangement of institutions whereby human beings in a society interact and live together.
  2. (macrosociology) A system of socioeconomic stratification, social institutions, or, other patterned {|relation|relations} between large social groups.
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Are there any other animal examples of this type of social structure where altruism seems to play a part?
If sectionalism and secession are freely allowed, on the other hand, the social structure of a minority group will collapse into atomism.
The Celts also introduced the ring fort, which remained the basis of the social structure of pre-Christian Ireland.
This oligarchic social structure is increasingly maintained by means of repressive laws, police violence and racism.
But when modern societies abolished the stigmas on illegitimacy, divorce, and all the rest, whole portions of the social structure just caved in.
Still another feature disqualifying many mammal species from domestication is the lack of suitable social structure.

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