Question

The complex framework of societal institutions (such as the economy, politics, and religion) and social practices (such as rules and social roles) that make up a society and that organize and establish limits on people's behavior is known as:________.

Answer 1

Answer:

Social structure

Explanation:

Social structure is the collection of societal relations (such as social class structure, and social rules), and social institutions, that together form a stable pattern of relations between the members of a society.

For example, the social structure of a country might be feudal in its economic structure, and divided in three estates in is social class structure: nobility, clergy, and peasantry. Both the economic structure and the class system are part of the complex framework known as social structure, which determines the way a society is organized (in this particular example, the medieval european society).