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Social anthropology

A subdiscipline of anthropology concerned with the non-biological, behavioural aspects of society; i.e. The social, linguistic, and technological components underlying human behavior. Two important branches of cultural anthropology are ethnography (the study of living cultures) and ethnology (which attempts to compare cultures using ethnographic evidence). In Europe, it is referred to as social anthropology.

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