Meanings
- rareuncountablehuman sciencesthe wisdom of the people; collective wisdom
Elaboration of demosophy as a special doctrine assumes a new sociology of knowledge.
1931, Social Science Abstracts, volume 3, part 2, page 13322 more examples
The central concept of Kohn is “demosophy,” a sort of sociology, which is not only observing, but creative and rejuvenating.
1937, Antonín Obrdlík, Bruno Zwicker, Survey of Recent Sociological Production in Czechoslovakia in American Sociological Review, volume 2, number 3, American Sociological Association, page 426As democracy is a system to manage power, balancing individual interests through collective rule, so demosophy would be a system to manage knowledge, balancing individual experiences through collective wisdom.
2006, Peter Broks, Understanding Popular Science, Open University Press, page 154
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