sociology
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French sociologie, coined by Auguste Comte in 1834, itself a combination of Latin socius (“companion, fellowship”) and the Greek suffix Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía), itself from Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos, “word, knowledge”), from socio- + -logy.
Previous mentions of the field in English usually referred to it as social physics.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- enPR: sō-shē-ŏl′-əjē
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌsəʊsiːˈɒlədʒiː/, /ˌsəʊʃiːˈɒlədʒiː/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun[edit]
sociology (plural sociologies)
- A social science that studies society, human social interaction, patterns of social relationships, and the interactions of culture. Through both theory and applied research, it engages subject matters across a range of microanalysis, mesoanalysis, and macroanalysis.
Meronyms[edit]
- See also Thesaurus:sociology
Derived terms[edit]
- anthroposociology
- biosociology
- cow sociology
- cybersociology
- ethnosociology
- formal sociology
- historical sociology
- macrosociology
- mathematical sociology
- metasociology
- microsociology
- neurosociology
- nonsociology
- phytosociology
- pseudosociology
- psychosociology
- sociologese
- sociologist
- sociologistic
- sociologize
- xenosociology
- zoosociology
Translations[edit]
study of society, human social interactions, etc.
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- "sociology" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 295.
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