Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The study of human social behavior, especially the study of the origins, organization, institutions, and development of human society.
- n. Analysis of a social institution or societal segment as a self-contained entity or in relation to society as a whole.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The science of social phenomena; the science which investigates the laws regulating human society; the science which treats of the general structure of society, the laws of its development, the progress of civilization, and all that relates to society.
Wiktionary
- n. 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
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. That branch of philosophy which treats of the constitution, phenomena, and development of human society; social science.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the study and classification of human societies
Etymologies
- From French sociologie, coined by Auguste Comte in 1834. Previous mentions of the field in English usually referred to it as social physics. (Wiktionary)
- French sociologie : socio-, socio- + -logie, study (from Greek -logiā; see -logy). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I do not deny that sociology, in the department of purely descriptive anatomy of the social organism, has made great and fruitful new contributions to contemporary science, even developing into some specialized branches of sociology, of which _criminal sociology_, thanks to the labors of the Italian school, has become one of the most important results.”
“Richard recently graduated with a bachelor's in sociology from the University of Maryland.”
The Huffington Post: Tom Matlack: An Interview With Marie Tillman
“The term sociology was coined by [[Auguste Comte]] in 1839.”
“There is the well-known "rule of 150" in sociology, which is that it is not possible to know more than about 150 people well enough to have sufficiently strong social ties that no formal rules are required.”
The Morality of the Market, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Your sociology is as vicious and worthless as is your method of thinking. ”
“He coined the term sociology and gave it its first content, and he is renowned for having introduced the sociology of gender and emotion into sociology.”
“That is how I was able to make my claim of mine being #4 in sociology and top ten in history and poly-sci.”
“I soon learned that scholarship in sociology was not as easy as I imagined.”
“Finally, I recall my oldest daughter's comment that in sociology courses you only learn that "There's poverty and America sucks.”
I Heart Kevin Lang, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“I recall my oldest daughter's comment that in sociology courses you only learn that" There's poverty and America sucks. "”
I Heart Kevin Lang, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Keywords, by Raymond Williams
From a book about life and death.
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Worldview Ideology
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teleology, soteriology, sociology, theology, epistemology, axiology, cosmology, anthropology
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socio-
relating to society; relating to sociology
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five syllables
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ologies, ographies, onomies, &c.
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