Network graphs of the structure of society

This is quite interesting, though not really what I'm after. I have this somewhat grandiose vision of depicting society (or more realistically, little bits and aspects of it) as a network. I think it would be useful to visually depict the various forces influencing individuals, showing how people (groups and individuals alike) are subject to but also influence other social groups in different ways. This may or may not be useful for actual knowledge discovery but I'm pretty sure, if done well, it would be useful for teaching. I may or may not attempt such a thing.

There are a few things out there which are close to what I'm after, but no cigar. There are tonnes of highly detailed ones on specific organisations and governmental types, many of which are pretty good, but that's much more focused than what I want. For example this hideous mess explains why Afghanistan is a hideous mess, except that it doesn't because it's too much of a hideous mess to understand :
https://organizationsandmarkets.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/coin2.jpg

This one (admittedly for kids so I wouldn't expect too much) is too simple and has the hugely naive problem of showing power flowing only from one source, rather than in a (partially ?) closed loop from many sources as I'd rather depict :
http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/explore/government/index.html

The closest one to what I'm after that I could find is here (both figures) :
http://questioneverything.typepad.com/question_everything/2012/07/watching-the-political-system-er-circus.html
Note that I only skimmed the text. The figures are nice, but a little too broad.

Isotype (International System Of Typographic Picture Education) is a method of showing social, technological, biological and historical connections in pictorial form. It consisted of a set of standardized and abstracted pictorial symbols to represent social-scientific data with specific guidelines on how to combine the identical figures using serial repetition. It was first known as the Vienna Method of Pictorial Statistics (Wiener Methode der Bildstatistik), due to its having been developed at the Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseum in Wien (Social and economic museum of Vienna) between 1925 and 1934.

The aim was to “represent social facts pictorially” and to bring “dead statistics” to life by making them visually attractive and memorable. One of the museum’s catch-phrases was: “To remember simplified pictures is better than to forget accurate figures”.... A central task in Isotype was the “transformation” of complex source information into a sketch for a self-explanatory chart.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotype_(picture_language)