anascopic

English

Etymology

ana- +‎ -scopic

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒpɪk

Adjective

anascopic (comparative more anascopic, superlative most anascopic)

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.

   Antonym: catascopic

   • 1985, Elizabeth J. Barker, “Abolitionism: Towards a Non-repressive Approach to Crime”, in Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Prison Abolition, page 34:

     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.