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- datedhistoricaluncountableThe anthropological and sociological study of race as a means of establishing the superiority of certain peoples.
As I have hinted in the introduction, the journal's honeymoon with anthroposociology was of short duration.
2003, Josep R. Llobera, The making of totalitarian thought, page 1112 more 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.
1897 December 28, Georges Vacher De Lapouge, “The Fundamental Laws of Anthropo-sociology”, in Journal of Political Economy, volume 6, number 1, page 54Schwalbe 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.
1996, George W. Stocking, Volksgeist as Method and Ethic: Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition, page 132
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From anthropo- + sociology. Coined by Georges Vacher de Lapouge.
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