Sentence examples for basic social unit from inspiring English sources
In both the mountain and plains zebras the family group is the basic social unit.
Each of these bands occupied several villages, which were the basic social unit of the Pawnee people.
The tribe's basic social unit was probably a local group consisting of close relatives and headed by a senior member.
And social conservatives favor a vision of society "in which the basic social unit is the family, rather than the individual, and in which order, hierarchy, and tradition are highly valued".
The basic social unit usually consisted of a two- or three-generation family or the nuclear families of two brothers, augmented occasionally by other individuals with ties to the core group.
Until the mid-1970s the vast majority of Cambodia's people inhabited the central lowland region, where the rural village was second only to the family as the basic social unit.
Spanish colonizers described villages in which the basic social units were nuclear and extended families, dominated by male members and elders; barter-based market economies and complex religious traditions were also characteristic of these groups.
The small bands that functioned as basic social units should not be confused with larger groups, such as the Mescalero, that are sometimes referred to as bands but are in fact tribes (see Sidebar: The Difference Between a Tribe and a Band).
Community is the basic social living unit and the living base for majority social members, with multiple functions including politics, economy, culture and social management (Zhou, 2002).
Remarkably, every space is communal, devoted to forcing folks into that basic Southern social unit, the visit.
