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anthroposociology

noun

  1. the sociological study of race by anthropological methods (as in the theories of Lapouge) as a means of establishing the social superiority of dolichocephalic peoples
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noun

Etymology: From anthropo- + sociology. Coined by Georges Vacher de Lapouge.

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

    “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.”