Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index 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. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.