An approach to the viewing of society based on understandings of its diachronic, structural, secular, material?, functional relations as opposed to historical, metaphysical/symbolic, religious/cultural/ethnic understandings.
Societalism runs counter to the premises of
racialist,
religious,
essentialist[?],
socio-biological[?],
traditional hierarchical[?],
postmodern,
subcultural[?] and
mass media views of society.