social structure

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• Durkheim's Concept of Anomie: When Social Norms Break Down
  Anomie is Émile Durkheim's term for a society in which shared norms weaken, leaving people without clear limits on what they should want and how to pursue it.
• Kinship
  The culturally recognized system of relationships based on descent and marriage, and a central topic of anthropology.