anthroposociology
anthroposociology noun: the anthropological and sociological study of race as a means of establishing the superiority of certain peoples.
Noun
anthroposociology (uncountable)
- The anthropological and sociological study of race as a means of establishing the superiority of certain peoples.
- At the origin of every discovery there is usually one man of genius. The originating genius of anthropo-sociology was the Count de Gobinea. His Essai sur l'inégalité des races humains appeared in 1853-1855.1897 December, Georges Vacher De Lapouge, “The Fundamental Laws of Anthropo-sociology”, in Journal of Political Economy, volume 6, number 1, page 54
- Schwalbe was the first important anthropologist to publically^([sic]) declare his sympathy to anthroposociology, at the thirty-fourth Congress of the German society in 1903 — significantly, the year after Virchow's death.1996, George W. Stocking, Volksgeist as Method and Ethic: Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition, page 132
Origin of anthroposociology
From anthropo- + sociology. Coined by Georges Vacher de Lapouge.
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Questions about anthroposociology
- What does anthroposociology mean?
- Anthroposociology means the anthropological and sociological study of race as a means of establishing the superiority of certain peoples.
- What part of speech is anthroposociology?
- Anthroposociology is a noun.
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