Meaning of catascopic | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Related to spying or scouting.
2. Related to aerial photography.
3. Of scientific forms of thinking which take wider contexts (groups, society, etc.) as a main frame of reference and study and explain individual behaviour in relationship to this broader context.

Examples

“To be aggelos, to be an angel, to exercise this angelic office, this catascopic office of spy and scout, he really must be free of all attachments.”

“New strategies were needed too, from the macroscopic (satellite imaging analysis), through the catascopic (aerial photography by kite; fig. 6, sidebar) to the microscopic (water-sieving and soil sampling [...]).”

“The functionalist approach of societies is catascopic. Social phenomena are conceived of as parts of a whole that are determined by this whole.”

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