entropology

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The study of human actions that lead to the disintegration and increasing disorder of highly evolved social systems. uncountable
    — Surely under such inclusive circumstances, the erstwhile frightening prospect of a grimly reductive "entropology" (Levi-Strauss, 1955:397) seems far less ominous.
  2. The tendency of social systems to disintegrate. broadly,uncountable
    — 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.

词源

Coined in 1955 by Claude Lévi-Strauss as Blend of entropy + anthropology
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