superorganic
adjective
social scienceold-fashionedspecialized(alsosuper-organic)uk/ˌsuː.pər.ɔːˈɡæn.ɪk/us/ˌsuː.pɚ.ɔːrˈɡæn.ɪk/relatingto thepartsof aculturethat arebelievedto be moreimportantthan theindividualmembersof thesociety:
Culture is superorganic in thesensethat it isacquiredbylearning.
Thisargumenttreatscultureas adiscourseand not as a super-organicentity.
- Shebelievedin the superorganictheorythatcultureisdistinctfrombiology.
- Hisoppositionto theideaofcultureas superorganic was notrelatedto hisstudyofpsychology.
- A superorganicinterpretationofculturerequiresuniquemethods.
Lifestyles & their study
- affluenza
- anthropogenic
- anthropological
- anthropologically
- anthropologist
- anthropology
- demographer
- demographics
- demography
- downshifting
- ethnographer
- hermetic
- hermetically
- intercultural
- lifestyle
- meme
- way of lifeidiom
- westernization
- westernize
- westernized
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