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social organisation
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Institution
Institutions are "stable, valued, recurring patterns of behavior." As structures or mechanisms of social order, they govern the behaviour of a set of individuals within a given community. Institutions are identified with a social purpose, transcending individuals and intentions by mediating the rules that govern living behavior.
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social organisation
Noun
1. 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"
(synonym) social organization, social structure, social system, structure
(hypernym) system, scheme
(hyponym) feudalism, feudal system
(member-holonym) society
(member-meronym) political system, form of government
