Culturology
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Culturology is a noun meaning A branch of social sciences concerned with the scientific description and analysis of cultures as a whole.
Meaning
A branch of social sciences concerned with the scientific description and analysis of cultures as a whole.
Example Sentences
Following Leslie White (1975), I call culturology the sociological, economic, political, and historical study of cultural systems, or cultures in the narrow or sociological sense of the word. Obviously, culturology can be synchronic or diachronic. In the former case it coincides with the anthropology, sociology, economics, and politology of culture.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include culturologist, ethnology, ethnography, culturomics, ergology, sociography.
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