• (n.) The department of knowledge relative to the care and culture of the people; sociology in its broadest sense; -- in library cataloguing. Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/demotics/
De·mot'ics noun The department of knowledge relative to the care and culture of the people; sociology in its broadest sense; -- in library cataloguing. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/D/34