structural sociology

English Thesaurus

1. a sociological theory based on the premise that society comes before individuals (noun.cognition)

hypernym	:	theory,
definition	:	a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena (noun.cognition)

part meronym	:	sociology,
definition	:	the study and classification of human societies (noun.cognition)