What is "social unit"

Usage examples of "social unit".

In earlier times, when the relevant social unit was the tribe, the religious sect, a nation, or even a civilization, it was possible for the local mythology in service to that unit to represent all those beyond its bounds as inferior, and its own local inflection of the universal human heritage of mythological imagery either as the one, the true and sanctified, or at least as the noblest and supreme.

They always assume that any group of Earthmen they find together makes up a social unit.

The cartel founded by Marcantonio Gottschalk is deliberstructured on the lines of a family-that basic social unit which a man feels he is defending when he installs armored picture-windows instead of the old glass, plants mines as carefully as rosebushes in his front garAnd the technique has proved psychologically apt.

The existence of the family as a unit of procreation and therefore as a social unit had to be eliminated.

With his return the 109th had finally come together as a social unit once again.

A loner among such buddy-buddy primates would have been an aberration, for her people would have lived in a social unit where the ethos of a loner could contribute only uncertainty and disruption.

The plantations were large, and the people lived in far greater isolation than in New England, where not only the town, but more especially the church, developed a close social unit.

Wisely, no one had tried to oppose her, and we ourselves were hardly in a position to do so, even though we were probably the strongest single social unit between our territory and the Rockies.

In fact, in the course of a voyage like this, the crew should become a close social unit.

The polis or city-state was the essential political, economic, and social unit.

The dispersed village, an association of farms, rather than the city or state, is the basic social unit.