- social organization, social organisation, social structure, social system, structure - 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"
--1 is a kind of system, scheme
--1 is a member of society
--1 has members: political system, form of government
--1 has particulars:feudalism, feudal system; patriarchy, patriarchate; matriarchy, matriarchate; meritocracy; class structure; segregation, separatism