Social Structure Concepts is a meta-category that encompasses the abstract ideas, analytical frameworks, and theoretical constructs sociologists use to understand the stable, patterned, and enduring relationships, roles, institutions, and organisations that constitute the framework of a society. These concepts help to delineate how society is organised and how it influences human behaviour. Examples include the general idea of "social structure" itself, as well as specific components like social facts (Durkheim's external, coercive aspects of social life), social functions (consequences for societal operation), and various organisational principles (e.g., formal organisation, bureaucracy). It also covers dynamic processes like structuration (the mutual shaping of agency and structure) and negotiated order (social order arising from ongoing interactions). This category provides the essential vocabulary for analysing the underlying organisation of society, beyond individual actions, to understand how social forces shape collective life.