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culturology

culturology noun: a branch of social sciences concerned with the scientific description and analysis of cultures as a whole.

Noun

culturology (uncountable)

  1. A branch of social sciences concerned with the scientific description and analysis of cultures as a whole.
    • 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...1999, Mario Bunge, Social Science Under Debate: A Philosophical Perspective, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 220

culturology meaning in Tamil

culturology in Tamil

பண்பாட்டியல்

Origin of culturology

From culture + -o- + -logy.

Words formed from culturology

Questions about culturology

What does culturology mean?
Culturology means a branch of social sciences concerned with the scientific description and analysis of cultures as a whole.
What is culturology in Tamil?
Culturology in Tamil is பண்பாட்டியல். See Culturology meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is culturology?
Culturology is a noun.

Words near culturology in the dictionary

  1. culturohistorically
  2. culturological
  3. culturologically
  4. culturologist
  5. culturologists
  6. culturology
  7. culturome
  8. culturomes
  9. culturomic
  10. culturomics
  11. culturopolitical

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Adapted from Wiktionary: culturology (page history and authors); culturology (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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