entropology

Noun

entropology (uncountable)

1. The study of human actions that lead to the disintegration and increasing disorder of highly evolved social systems.
   • Surely under such inclusive circumstances, the erstwhile frightening prospect of a grimly reductive "entropology" (Levi-Strauss, 1955:397) seems far less ominous.1974, Ino Rossi -, The unconscious in culture
   • Thus, anthropology is 'entropology', the science of the running down of things.2003, Wes Sharrock, John A Hughes, Peter J. Martin, Understanding Modern Sociology, →ISBN
2. (broadly) The tendency of social systems to disintegrate.
   • The kind of agency I though I had—and the ethnocentric bias that led me to it—is symptomatic of the narrative motif of entropology. Make no mistake—entrolpology is real.2012, Kathleen Glenister Roberts, Alterity and Narrative, →ISBN, page 158
   • In any case, the economic relationship between entropology and money in the last 250 years has to be studied in more scientific depth, but our methodical intuition points to an enigmatic monetary mechanism, concerning the entropy of our human economy.2013, Stephen I. Ternyik, Global Wave Energetics, →ISBN