What is "social organization"

n. 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" [syn: social organisation, social structure, social system, structure]

In sociology, a social organization is a pattern of relationships between and among individuals and social groups.

Characteristics of social organization can include qualities such as size, sexual composition, spatiotemporal cohesion, leadership, structure, division of labor, communication systems, and so on.