catascopic

adjective3

1. •
   Related to spying or scouting.

   • To be aggelos, to be an angel, to exercise this angelic office, this catascopic office of spy and scout, he really must be free of all attachments. — 2011
2. •
   Related to aerial photography.
3. •
   Of scientific forms of thinking which take wider contexts (groups, society, etc.) as a main frame of reference and study and explain individual behaviour in relationship to this broader context.

   • The functionalist approach of societies is catascopic. Social phenomena are conceived of as parts of a whole that are determined by this whole. — 1980