sociology

English

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^(key): /ˌsəʊsiːˈɒlədʒiː/, /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

Holonyms

• social science

Derived terms

• sociologist

Translations

study of society, human social interactions, etc.

• Afrikaans: sosiologie
• Albanian: sociologja
• Arabic: عِلْم اَلْمُجْتَمَع‎ m (ʿilm al-mujtamaʿ)
• Armenian: սոցիոլոգիա (hy) (socʿiologia), հասարակագիտություն (hy) (hasarakagitutʿyun)
• Assamese: সমাজ বিজ্ঞান (xomaz biggan)
• Azerbaijani: sosiologiya
• Basque: soziologia
• Belarusian: сацыялогія f (sacyjalóhija)
• Bengali: সমাজবিজ্ঞান (bn) (śômajbiggan)
• Bulgarian: социология (bg) f (sociologija)
• Burmese: လူမှုဗေဒ (luhmu.beda.)
• Catalan: sociologia (ca) f
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: sociologie (cs) f
• Danish: sociologi (da) c
• Dutch: sociologie (nl) f
• Esperanto: sociologio
• Estonian: sotsioloogia
• 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: סוציולוגיה‎ (he) f (sotsyológya)
• Hindi: समाजशास्त्र (hi) (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 (älewmettanw)
• Khmer: សង្គមវិទ្យា (sɑngkum vityie), សិក្សាសង្គម (səksaa sɑngkum)
• Korean: 사회학(社會學) (ko) (sahoehak)
• Kyrgyz: социология (ky) (sotsiologiya)
• Latin: sociologia f
• Latvian: socioloģija f

• Lithuanian: sociologija (lt) f
• Macedonian: социологија f (sociologija)
• Malay: sosiologi (ms)
• Malayalam: സമൂഹശാസ്ത്രം (samūhaśāstraṃ)
• Maltese: soċjoloġija
• Maori: mātauranga hapori
• Marathi: समाजशास्त्र (samājśāstra)
• Nepali: समाजशास्त्र (samājaśāstra)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sosiologi m

  Nynorsk: sosiologi m

• Occitan: sociologia f
• Persian: جامعه‌شناسی‎ (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)
• Tamil: சமூகவியல் (ta) (camūkaviyal)
• Telugu: సామాజిక శాస్త్రం (sāmājika śāstraṁ)
• Thai: สังคมวิทยา (sang-kom-wit-ta-ya)
• Turkish: sosyoloji (tr)
• Turkmen: sosiologiýa
• Ukrainian: соціоло́гія (uk) f (sociolóhija)
• Uzbek: sotsiologiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: xã hội học (vi) (社會學)
• Welsh: cymdeithaseg m
• West Frisian: sosjology
• Yiddish: סאָציאָלאָגיע‎ f (sotsyologye)

See also

• anthropology
• psychology

Further reading

• "sociology" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 295.