demosophy

English

Etymology

From demo- +‎ -sophy.

Noun

demosophy (uncountable)

  1. (folkloristics, sociology, rare) the wisdom of the people; collective wisdom
    • 1931, Social Science Abstracts, volume 3, part 2, page 1332:
      Elaboration of demosophy as a special doctrine assumes a new sociology of knowledge.
    • 1937, Antonín Obrdlík, Bruno Zwicker, Survey of Recent Sociological Production in Czechoslovakia in American Sociological Review, volume 2, number 3, American Sociological Association, page 426:
      The central concept of Kohn is “demosophy,” a sort of sociology, which is not only observing, but creative and rejuvenating.
    • 2006, Peter Broks, Understanding Popular Science, Open University Press, page 154:
      As democracy is a system to manage power, balancing individual interests through collective rule, so demosophy would be a system to manage knowledge, balancing individual experiences through collective wisdom.
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