futurologyn.
/fjuːtʃəˈrɒlədʒi/, /fjuːtjʊəˈrɒlədʒi/, U.S. /ˌfjutʃəˈrɑlədʒi/ The forecasting of the future on a systematic basis, esp. by the study of present-day trends in human affairs.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > study of society > [noun] > other branches
social history1814
social geography1828
social dynamics1843
social statics1843
socio-economics1893
genetics1896
biosociology1897
social engineering1899
social morphology1899
psychosociology1902
socionomics1902
political sociology1905
sociobiology1912
social planning1913
social constructionist1925
futurology1946
sociobiology1946
structural anthropology1950
squalorology1961
proxemics1963
future research1969
women's studies1969
future study1971
social constructionism1976
social constructivism1981
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > anticipation, forecast > [noun] > based on present trends
futurology1946
1946 A. Huxley Let. 29 Mar. (1969) 542 Thank you for..the interesting enclosure on ‘Teaching the Future’. I think that ‘futurology’ might be a very good thing.
1967 Listener 23 Mar. 397/1 Futurology, the systematic study of trends which enable us to forecast the shape of things to come.
1969 New Scientist 11 Dec. 570/2 Futurology..cannot be turned into a respectable ‘hard’ science merely by getting the economists and the technologists to put some numbers to it.
Derivatives
futuˈrologist n.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > study of society > [noun] > other branches > one who studies or practises
social engineer1842
social historian1854
social geographer1918
sociobiologist1920
psychosociologist1921
socio-economist1927
squalorologist1957
futurologist1967
social constructivist1988
1967 Listener 23 Mar. 397/2 Here we are with the automation process which, according to well-known futurologists, will lead to enforced leisure for a large part of the population.
1970 Financial Times 13 Apr. 7/1 American futurologist Herman Kahn is wrong in seeing the 21st century as belonging to Japan.
Draft additions 1993
futuroˈlogical adj. (a) of or pertaining to futurology; (b) = futuristic adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > anticipation, forecast > [adjective] > based on present trends
futurological1970
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [adjective] > innovative or innovated > avant-garde
vantguard1605
neodox1897
vanguard1958
futurological1970
edgy1976
1970 New Scientist 24 Dec. 562/1 The conference..sparked off a great deal of the systematic ‘futurological’ thinking that was much [sic] a characteristic of the 'sixties.
1971 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 18 Apr. 5/7 It's a futurological design and I think you have to use it as a guide, amending it each year as new priorities arise.
1976 Daily Tel. 27 Oct. 6/6 In recent years he has developed a keen interest in national planning and associated with a ‘futurological’ scheme called ‘Argentina in the year 2,000’.
1989 Notes & Queries June 256/2 Futurological works such as Back to Methuselah.
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