The scientific study of culture as a system with its own rules, patterns, and ways of evolving and spreading between people and societies.
Coined from Latin cultura (cultivation, way of life) plus Greek -logia (study of), emerging as a formal academic discipline in the 1920s-1930s, particularly developed by Russian scholars like Petr Sorokin.
Culturology was created to be culture's equivalent of what biology is to organisms—a complete science with its own methods and principles rather than just borrowing from history or sociology, and this distinction shows how academics literally create new fields when they realize existing ones miss something important.
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