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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The observing and descriptive stage of sociology.

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Examples

  • I was once a Berkenstock wearing bar fly that never hesitated to let any "sociography" get in the way of me and my libations in any western setting.

    Beating by sandal David 2006

  • Equal opportunity bloodshed and sociography full disclosure, I love McCarthy's writing, and recognize that not everyone does.

    Apocalypto Rogers 2006

  • Well, my father and my grandfather were both extraterrestrial sociographers-anthropologists whose subjects aren't anthropomorphic-and I majored in sociography at the University of Montevideo.

    Uller Uprising Piper, H. Beam 1952

  • Well, my father and my grandfather were both extraterrestrial sociographers -- anthropologists whose subjects aren't anthropomorphic -- and I majored in sociography at the University of Montevideo.

    Uller Uprising H. Beam Piper 1934

  • The village was typical enough to have been an illustration in a sociography textbook -- fields in a belt for a couple of hundred yards around it, dome-thatched mud-and-wattle huts inside a pole stockade with log storehouses built against it, their flat roofs high enough to provide platforms for defending archers, the open oval gathering-place in the middle.

    Oomphel in the Sky H. Beam Piper 1934

  • On the other hand, she was EETA which was bad, and had a master's in sociography from Adelaide, which was worse.

    Oomphel in the Sky H. Beam Piper 1934

  • "Miles went to school on Terra, and majored in extraterrestrial sociography, and got a master's, just like you did.

    Oomphel in the Sky H. Beam Piper 1934

  • [Page: 66] least _sociography_) have thus been laid down for us; but the task now before us, in our time, in such a society as this -- and indeed in such a paper as the present one -- its that of extracting from all this general teaching its essential scientific method, one everywhere latent and implicit, but nowhere fully explicit, or at least adequately systematised.

    Civics: as Applied Sociology Patrick Geddes 1893

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