social history
Noun
Meaning
The history of society; an approach to and subfield of history that emphasizes social structures.
(medicine, social work) The history of an individual's social interactions and/or support network.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgExamples
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.
Once we begin to speak of men mixing their labour with the earth, we are in a whole world of new relations between man and nature, and to separate natural history from social history becomes extremely problematic.
London in the 20th Century: A City and Its People (2001) 544 pages; Social history of people, neighborhoods, work, culture, power.
London in the 19th Century: 'A Human Awful Wonder of God' (2008); Social history of people, neighborhoods, work, culture, power.