social structure

One blames black Americans as a race; the other, racism as a social structure.

While many Hawaiians still secretly worshipped the old gods, kapu was dead as a public pillar of the social structure.

The old social structure had been disrupted in the civil convulsion, and the old political order likewise.

Trask's efforts to explain the political and social structure of the Sword-Worlds met the same incomprehension from Bentrik.

From thence they were sent by ship to Europe, and the great social structure they had erected fell forthwith to the ground.

Bentham's method may be applicable at a given moment, when the social structure is already consolidated and uniform.

In the inchoate phase of their development they are but different aspects of the same general facts of social structure.