社会结构的概念，早在20世纪初就已经出现，但直到目前还没有一个统一的观点。“社会角色”、“社会关系”和“稳定”是社会结构定义中的重要因素。对岭南地区而言，社会结构包括两大体系，一个是封建统治的政权体系，它主要形成于秦朝以后；另一个是通过长期发展自然形成的传统社会结构体系。虽然中原朝廷已经在岭南越人地区建立了封建政权统治体系，但是对封建时期的壮族人而言，对他们影响最大的社会结构还是自然形成的传统社会结构模式，主要包括家庭、宗族及村落结构。因此，下文我们仅就这种传统社会结构进行分析和比较。
The concept of social structure, as early as the beginning of twentieth Century, has been there, but until now there is not a unified view. "Social role", "social relationship" and "stability" are the important factors in the definition of social structure. In Lingnan region, the social structure including two systems, one is the feudal regime, which is mainly formed in the Qin Dynasty after; another is through long-term development of the natural formation of the traditional social structure of the system. Although the Central Plains court has in Lingnan area established the rule of the feudal regime system, but to the feudal period of Zhuang people, for their influence biggest social structure or natural formation of traditional social structure mode, including the family, clan and village structure. As a result, we analyze and compare the traditional social structure.
