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Meaning of anthroposociology | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

The anthropological and sociological study of race as a means of establishing the superiority of certain peoples.

dated, historical, uncountable

Examples

“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.”
“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.”
“As I have hinted in the introduction, the journal's honeymoon with anthroposociology was of short duration.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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