ABSTRACT
Other writers have restricted the term to the more permanent and organised relationships in society. Thus, M.Ginsberg regards social structure as the complex of the principal groups and institutions which constitute societies.6 This conception is also important for the connection which it emphasises between the abstract social relationships and the social groups which give rise to or are involved in them. From this point of view, the study of social structure can be undertaken in terms of institutional arrangements, or of the relations between social groups, or of both together, and this is helpful in the actual study of societies.1 If we thus restrict the term ‘social structure’ to mean these more permanent and important relationships and groups, we perhaps need another term to refer to the other
activities which go on in a society, and which frequently represent variations from the structural forms. R.Firth has proposed the term ‘social organization’, which he defines as ‘the systematic ordering of social relations by acts of choice and decision’. ‘In the aspect of social structure is to be found the continuity principle of society; in the aspect of organization is to be found the variation or change principle-by allowing evaluation of situations and entry of individual choice.’2
