Well, I don't think communication is the bedrock of society, but it is part of it, yes. In fact, that reminds me of a scene in a movie where a scientist reads aloud a sentence from a book by a colleague of his in which she states that "communication is the cornerstone of society." He says it sounds good, but it's wrong. "Science is the cornerstone of society," he claimed. I'm not sure about that either. It's a broad discussion where the use of language is flexible and without a frame of reference we could say that even the family is the cornerstone of our current model of society. I believe that the economy is the real basis of society as a whole, and then politics is built on it and with it the role of communication. But sometimes politics has determinations on the economy, subordinating its influence. Our modern society has other important factors, which are information and knowledge. That is why some refer to this as the information society and the knowledge society, but in reality these are economic approaches as well.
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That's an interesting way to think of it, but even in families, communication is paramount. Miscommunication leads to isolation and bad outcomes. There isn't one part of society that isn't run by communication; you can't have anything if you can't have agreement or disagreements, not even science is made in an isolated way; science is debate, testing, communicating with your peers. If we can't debate, then we can't find out the truth, as everyone is bais, and only when your views can stand up to scrutiny can we ever progress as a human race.
Your point of view is quite clear. Yes, we are social creatures, we are not lone wolves, so everything we do is related to others. That's why we developed social institutions, like the family and so on until we invented political institutions. Communication is not an institution, it is rather a process, a relational structure and that is also an element of society. There are influential social institutions that are based on it, such as the media. It has a lot of power in our society. So, despite these annoying sociology terms and clarifications, your point remains valid in principle :)