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/sˈoʊʃəl jˈunət/ Listen

Social unit

noun

An organization regarded as part of a larger social group. Synonym: unit. "After the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit"

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"Social unit" Quotes from Famous Books

... production of every single element which goes to make up either language, or belief, or customs? Distinguishing thus between primary and secondary changes and between the origin of a change and its spread, it behooves us to examine carefully into the causes which make the members of a social unit, either consciously or unconsciously, willing to accept the innovation. What is it that determines acceptance or rejection of a particular change? What limits one change to a small area, while it extends the ...

— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park

... walled towns represent as nearly as may be the middle classes of the ancient civilization. Originally, the family was the political and social unit, just as with the patriarchs of Holy Writ, but within the last generation the community idea has been growing rapidly, and there are perhaps a score of towns and villages scattered along the banks of the ...

— The Doomsman • Van Tassel Sutphen

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