entropology noun2 •The study of human actions that lead to the disintegration and increasing disorder of highly evolved social systems.Surely under such inclusive circumstances, the erstwhile frightening prospect of a grimly reductive "entropology" (Levi-Strauss, 1955:397) seems far less ominous. — 1974 •The tendency of social systems to disintegrate.The kind of agency I though I had—and the ethnocentric bias that led me to it—is symptomatic of the narrative motif of entropology. Make no mistake—entrolpology is real. — 2012
