English [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] From French sociologie 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 )
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 ] Derived terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ] study of society, human social interactions, etc.
Afrikaans: sosiologie
Albanian: sociologji (sq) f
Arabic: عِلْم الْمُجْتَمَع m ( ʕilm al-mujtamaʕ )
Armenian: սոցիոլոգիա (hy) ( socʻiologia ) , հասարակագիտություն (hy) ( hasarakagitutʻyun )
Assamese: সমাজ বিজ্ঞান ( xomaz biggan )
Azerbaijani:
Abjad: اجتماعيات ( ijtimāeiāt )
Roman: ictimaiyyat sosiologiya
Basque: soziologia
Belarusian: сацыяло́гія f ( sacyjalóhija ) , сацыялёгія f ( sacyjaljóhija ) , грамадазна́ўства n ( hramadaznáŭstva )
Bengali: সমাজবিজ্ঞান (bn) ( śomajbiggên )
Bulgarian: социоло́гия f ( sociológija )
Burmese: လူမှုဗေဒ ( luhmu.beda. )
Catalan: sociologia (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 社會學 ／ 社会学 ( se5 wui6-2 hok6 )
Mandarin: 社會學 ／ 社会学 (zh) ( shèhuìxué )
Czech: sociologie (cs) f
Danish: sociologi (da) c
Dutch: sociologie (nl) f
Esperanto: sociologio
Estonian: sotsioloogia
Faroese: samfelagsfrøði f sosiologi
Finnish: sosiologia (fi)
French: sociologie (fr) f
Galician: socioloxía (gl) f
Georgian: სოციოლოგია ( sociologia )
German: Soziologie (de) f Gesellschaftskunde f
Greek: κοινωνιολογία (el) f ( koinoniología )
Gujarati: સમાજશાસ્ત્ર ( samājśāstra )
Hebrew: סוֹצִיוֹלוֹגִיָה (he) f ( sotsyológya )
Hindi: समाजशास्त्र (hi) m ( samājśāstra )
Hungarian: szociológia (hu)
Icelandic: félagsfræði f
Ido: sociologio (io)
Indonesian: sosiologi (id)
Irish: socheolaíocht f
Italian: sociologia (it) f
Japanese: 社会学 (ja) ( しゃかいがく, shakaigaku )
Kannada: ಸಮಾಜಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ (kn) ( samājaśāstra )
Kazakh: әлеуметтану ( äleumettanu )
Khmer: សង្គមវិទ្យា ( sɑngkum vityiə ) , សិក្សាសង្គម ( səksaa sɑngkum )
Korean: 사회학(社會學) (ko) ( sahoehak )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: civaknasî (ku)
Kyrgyz: социология (ky) ( sotsiologiya )
Lao: ສັງຄົມສາດ (lo) ( sang khom sāt ) , ສັງຄົມວິທະຍາ ( sang khom wi tha nyā )
Latin: sociologia f
Latvian: socioloģija f
Lithuanian: sociologija (lt) f
Macedonian: социологија f ( sociologija )
Malay: sosiologi (ms)
Malayalam: സമൂഹശാസ്ത്രം ( samūhaśāstraṁ )
Maltese: soċjoloġija
Maori: mātauranga hapori
Marathi: समाजशास्त्र ( samājśāstra )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: социологи ( sociologi )
Nepali: समाजशास्त्र ( samājaśāstra )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sosiologi m
Nynorsk: sosiologi m
Occitan: sociologia f
Pashto: ټولنپوهنه (ps) f ( ṭolənpohəna ) , سوسيولوژي (ps) f ( sosioloži ) , سوسيالوجي f ( sosiāloji )
Persian: جامِعِهشِناسی (fa) ( jâme'e-šenâsi )
Polish: socjologia (pl) f
Portuguese: sociologia (pt) f
Punjabi: ਸਮਾਜ ਸ਼ਾਸਤਰ (pa) ( samāj śāstar )
Romanian: sociologie (ro) f
Russian: социоло́гия (ru) f ( sociológija ) , обществове́дение (ru) n ( obščestvovédenije )
Scottish Gaelic: eòlas-comainn m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: социоло̀гија f
Roman: sociològija (sh) f
Slovak: sociológia f
Slovene: sociologija (sl) f
Spanish: sociología (es) f
Swahili: sosholojia
Swedish: sociologi (sv)
Tagalog: sosyolohiya
Tajik: ҷамъиятшиносӣ (tg) ( jamʾiyatšinosī ) , сотсиология (tg) ( sotsiologiya ) , ҷомеашиносӣ (tg) ( jomeašinosī )
Tamil: சமூகவியல் (ta) ( camūkaviyal )
Tatar: социология ( sotsioloğiyä )
Telugu: సామాజిక శాస్త్రం ( sāmājika śāstraṁ )
Thai: สังคมวิทยา ( sǎng-kom-wít-tá-yaa )
Turkish: sosyoloji (tr)
Turkmen: sosiologiýa
Ukrainian: соціоло́гія (uk) f ( sociolóhija ) , суспільствозна́вство n ( suspilʹstvoznávstvo )
Urdu: عِمْرانِیّات ( 'imrāniyyāt ) , سَماجِیات ( samājiyāt )
Uyghur: جەمئىيەتشۇناسلىق ( jem'iyetshunasliq )
Uzbek: sotsiologiya (uz)
Vietnamese: xã hội học (vi) (社會學
Welsh: cymdeithaseg m
West Frisian: sosjology
Yiddish: סאָציאָלאָגיע f ( sotsyologye )
See also [ edit ] References [ edit ]
^ “On the Origin and Use of the Word "Sociology," and on the Relation of Sociological to Other Studies and to Practical Problems”, in American Journal of Sociology [1] 145-162 Further reading [ edit ] "sociology" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 295. 