Social anthropology is the dominant constituent of anthropology throughout the United Kingdom and Commonwealth and much of Europe (France in particular), where it is distinguished from cultural anthropology. In the USA, social anthropology is commonly subsumed within cultural anthropology (or under the relatively new designation of sociocultural anthropology).
Noun 1. the branch of anthropology that deals with human culture and society (synonym) cultural anthropology (hypernym) anthropology (hyponym) garbology