'societal structures' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun phrase which refers to systems of social organization and governing. For example, "The societal structure of the country dictates many aspects of its citizens' lives."
So societal structures are struggling to keep up?
Hathaway pointed to societal structures as a cause of such inertia.
It's an individualist idea that places both praise and blame with the individual, while abdicating societal structures of responsibility.
Less visible is the perverse insidious violence delivered through legitimate societal structures.
Indeed, marine biologists are now revealing not only the dizzying variety of vocalizations among a number of whale species but also complex societal structures and cultures.
"Iraq and Afghanistan are very different in terms of the environment here, whether that is the geography, the culture, their societal structures and so on," he said.
Ophüls doesn't distinguish societal structures from private lives; rather, in his boldly ornate images, he unfolds the elaborately constructed façade of those structures in order to see through them to the desires and agonies that they secretly embody.
Its spectacularly complex grasp of the details of daily life, which as in the courtroom scene are seemingly tethered by mighty cinematic cables to the vast societal structures below, presents private lives and a political world, a way of life in which ideas and feelings are dominated by the force of law and the weight of tradition.
and societal structures (e.g., family, reference groups or networks, status in society, etc).
Engineering problems can sometimes appear simple beside the amorphous challenges of regulating and managing cutting edge technology use within existing societal structures.
Common antecedents to criminal activity are placed within broader contemporary and historical societal structures contributing to present day inequities.
