memetics

Noun

Meaning

memetics (uncountable)

(philosophy) The study of memes and their social and cultural effects.

Examples

Dawkins apparently did not intend to present a comprehensive theory of memetics in The Selfish Gene, but rather coined the term meme in a speculative spirit. Source: Internet

Archaeological memetics could assist the application of the meme concept to material culture in particular. Source: Internet

By then, memetics had also become a theme appearing in fiction (e.g. Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash ). Source: Internet

Aunger also organised a conference in Cambridge in 1999, at which prominent sociologists and anthropologists were able to give their assessment of the progress made in memetics to that date. Source: Internet

Luis Benitez-Bribiesca, a critic of memetics, calls it "a pseudoscientific dogma " and "a dangerous idea that poses a threat to the serious study of consciousness and cultural evolution" among other things. Source: Internet

Mary Midgley criticises memetics for at least two reasons: Midgley, Mary. Source: Internet

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