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culturology Social Anthropol. U.S.|kʌltjʊəˈrɒlədʒɪ| [ad. G. kulturologie (W. Ostwald Philos. d. Werte (1913) xiii. 286); cf. culture n. 5 a, b, -ology.] The science or study of (a) culture. Hence culturoˈlogical a., of or pertaining to culturology; cultuˈrologist, a student of culturology.
1939L. A. White in Amer. Anthropologist XLI. 571 Application of the viewpoint and principles of the philosophy of evolution is as essential to the solution of many problems in culturology as it is in biology or physics. 1949Antiquity XXIII. 55 What White calls the ‘culturological’ approach. 1956F. B. Steiner Taboo i. 17, I am not referring to American culturology. 1957Contrib. Indian Sociol. I. 50 The culturologist may feel at ease but the sociologist is at a loss. |