Culturology

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As Cultural Studies , the American called anthropologist Leslie White in 1949 his theory that cultures followed their own respective laws and not alone by ecology , psychology , biology could be described or other sciences. The respective culture (or society ) is more than the sum of its parts. “Kulturologists” researched socio-cultural phenomena, and culturology allows their understanding (see Leslie White's anthropology ).

The American cultural relativist Alfred Kroeber (1876–1960) introduced similar theories into anthropology, adopting the concept of the superorganism .

See also

• Cultural model (description of culturally anchored thought patterns)
• Cultural Studies (explores the material and symbolic dimensions of cultures)
• Socio-cultural evolution (theories of cultural and social development)

literature

• Michel Panoff, Michel Perrin: Kulturologie. In: Same: Pocket Dictionary of Ethnology. Munich 1975, ISBN 3-471-61615-2 , p. 177.
• Jutta Scherrer : Kulturology - a new concept for old thinking? In: Berlin Eastern Europe Info. November 1998, pp. 6–11 ( PDF file; 234 kB; 6 pages on fu-berlin.de).