What does "anascopic" mean?

Of scientific forms of thinking which strongly focus upon the individual (or its smaller components such as the body, an organ, tissue, cells, etc.) and look from that point of view toward bigger wholes.

Anascopic

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Adjective

1
Of scientific forms of thinking which strongly focus upon the individual (or its smaller components such as the body, an organ, tissue, cells, etc.) and look from that point of view toward bigger wholes.
"How then should we proceed to liberate criminology from criminal justice and to develop an anascopic view within criminology, that implicates the diversity of people, subcultural values, and social positions into the definition of conflicts."

Antonyms

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catascopic

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"How then should we proceed to liberate criminology from criminal justice and to develop an anascopic view within criminology, that implicates the diversity of people, subcultural values, and social positions into the definition of conflicts."

Etymology

From ana- + -scopic.

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