What does "social order" mean?

A particular system of social structures, institutions, customs, values, and practices which conserve, maintain, and enforce certain societal relations and behavioral patterns.

Social order

Q: What is a synonym for "social order"?

Common synonyms include: civil ordering, confucianism, lawfulness, more socially stable, normative structure, order in society.

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Noun

1
A particular system of social structures, institutions, customs, values, and practices which conserve, maintain, and enforce certain societal relations and behavioral patterns.
"May the dysgenic social order collapse under the weight of its depravity and misdeeds."
2
The stability of a society, in contrast to social chaos and upheaval.

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civil ordering confucianism lawfulness more socially stable normative structure order in society

Antonyms

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social disorder anarchy anomia chaos

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"May the dysgenic social order collapse under the weight of its depravity and misdeeds."

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