humanicsn.
/hjuːˈmanɪks/, U.S. /(h)juˈmænɪks/ The subject or study of human affairs or relations, esp. of the human element of a problem or situation as opposed to the mechanical.
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society > society and the community > study of society > [noun]
social sciencea1770
sociology1842
social studies1853
humanics1860
societology1883
human ecology1907
macrosociology1941
1860 T. W. Collens Humanics 8 Humanics is the science of man.
1884 Overland Monthly & Out West Mag. Oct. 440/1 Now there has opened a third field..—humanics, or matters concerning what is on the earth, but not of it—man, and human life.
1937 R. S. Morton Woman Surgeon xxxi. 351 The business side of practice is necessary, but its art and humanics are what carry us on.
1958 Progress Autumn 266/2 But, to British eyes, the American method looks superficial; it seems to rest on two doubtful assumptions... The second is that what Americans have called the ‘humanics’ of the subject can be reduced wholly to its ‘mechanics’.
2003 O. Sheldon Early Sociol. Managem. & Organizations ii. 43 The growth of Trade Union organization has..made the business of factory administration pre-eminently a problem in humanics, just as the revolution in mechanical methods made it to a great extent a problem in engineering, research, and material organization.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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