sentences:  In Anglophone contemporary social sciences the word "culturology" was coined by American anthropologist Leslie White, who defined it as a field dedicated to the study of culture and cultural systems.White notices that culturology was earlier known as "science of culture" as defined by English anthropologist Edward Burnett Tylor in his book 1872 "Primitive Culture".White also notices that he introduced this term in 1939 and for the first time the term appeared in English dictionaries in 1954.