Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Activities Facet
3. Disciplines (hierarchy name)
4. disciplines (concept)
5. social sciences
6. behavioral sciences

Narrower term/s

• sociolinguistics [NP]
• sociology of religion [NP]
• historical sociology
• rural sociology
• sociology of knowledge
• urban sociology
• human ecology

Anotations

Scope note:

Science of society, social institutions, and social relationships; specifically the systematic study of the development, structure, and function of human groups conceived as processes of interaction or as organized patterns of collective behavior.