sociology

English

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Etymology

From French sociologie, coined by Auguste Comte in 1834. Previous mentions of the field in English usually referred to it as social physics.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˌsəʊsiːˈɒlədʒiː/, IPA: /ˌsəʊʃiːˈɒlədʒiː/

Noun

sociology (plural sociologies)

1. The study of society, human social interaction and the rules and processes that bind and separate people not only as individuals, but as members of associations, groups and institutions

Translations

study of society, human social interactions, etc.

• Arabic: علم المجتمع (ar) (3ilm al-mujtáma3) m
• Armenian: սոցիոլոգիա (hy) (soc’iologia), հասարակագիտություն (hy) (hasarakagitut’yun)
• Azeri: sosiologiya (az)
• Catalan: sociologia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 社會學 (cmn), 社会学 (cmn) (shèhuìxué)

• Czech: sociologie (cs) f
• Dutch: sociologie (nl) f
• Esperanto: sociologio (eo)
• Estonian: sotsioloogia (et)
• French: sociologie (fr) f
• Galician: socioloxía (gl) f
• German: Soziologie (de) f, Gesellschaftskunde (de) f
• Greek: κοινωνιολογία (el) (koinoniología) f
• Irish: socheolaíocht (ga) f
• Italian: sociologia (it) f

• Japanese: 社会学 (ja) (しゃかいがく, shakaigaku)
• Khmer: សង្គមវិទ្យា (km) (sɑngkum vityie), សិក្សាសង្គម (km) (səksaa sɑngkum)
• Korean: 사회학 (ko) (sahoehak) (社會學 (ko))
• Latvian: socioloģija (lv) f
• Maltese: soċjoloġija (mt)
• Polish: socjologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: sociologia (pt) f
• Romanian: sociologie (ro) f
• Russian: социология (ru) (sociológija) f, обществоведение (ru) (obščestvovédenije) n
• Serbo-Croatian: sociològija (sh) f
• Spanish: sociología (es) f
• Swedish: sociologi (sv)
• Turkish: sosyoloji (tr)
• Vietnamese: xã hội học (vi) (社會學 (vi))

See also

• anthropology
• psychology