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Word definitions for sociology in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sociology is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the British Sociological Association . The journal's editors-in-chief are Andrew King, Sarah Neal (both University of Surrey ), Karim Murji, Sophie Watson, and Kath ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the study and classification of human societies

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sociology \So`ci*ol"o*gy\, n. [L. socius a companion + -logy.] That branch of philosophy which treats of the constitution, phenomena, and development of human society; social science. --H. Spencer.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE industrial ▪ Employee management and relations; Industrial sociology . ▪ It is not necessary to elaborate this diversion into industrial sociology unduly. modern ▪ Much of modern sociology lacks a paradigm and consequently ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in 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

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
the science of social phenomena, 1842, from French sociologie , a hybrid coined 1830 by French philosopher Isidore Auguste Comte (1798-1857), from Latin socius "associate" (see social (adj.)) + Greek-derived suffix -logie (see -logy ).

Usage examples of sociology.

Sociology, which the anchorite said she read more for amusement than insight, but which Cale found fascinating for the descriptions of large numbers of people living together in cities on different worlds.

Emma, blessed with organisational skills above the average, was troubled about her rise, a screw-up one could trace back directly to her own schooling, where she, in an expensive boarding-school for highborn young ladies, had been taught in fierily left-wing sociology lessons that brains were elitist and that manual work was the noble path to heaven.

These remain, even now, in the condition of those prehuman apes who are concerned only with economics, sociology, and politics, hurling bricks at each other and licking then their own wounds.

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A good sales clerk is an interdisciplinary scholar, a student of history, psychology, sociology, linguistics, aesthetics, and marketing.

In an essay elsewhere, he identified the subject matter of a history of ideas as: the history of philosophy, of science, of religion and theology, of the arts, of education, of sociology, of language, of folklore and ethnography, of economics and politics, of literature, of societies.

I also learned that Lija, having completed a BA in sociology at the University of Georgia, was working in Charlotte as a paramedic.

Before Pierre slipped over the border into Free Mozambique with Frelimo guerrilla fighters to study the sociology of liberation among the Makonde people on the far side of the Ruvuma river.

The social geography of myths will remain difficult to trace as long as we lack an analytical sociology of the press.

Such hierarchical structure and combination into systems of ever higher order, is characteristic of reality as a whole and is of fundamental importance especially in biology, psychology and sociology.

Without concerning himself in the least with problems of sociology, Winton had by nature an open hand and heart for cottagers, and abominated interference with their lives.

According to this pioneer in the sociology of religion, religious beliefs are representations that express the nature of sacred things and the .

During sit-ins, the picket line outside the library was comprised almost entirely of sociology lecturers, perhaps because the library was the building nearest the pub.

But the modern Utopians, having systematised their sociology, will have given some attention to the psychology of minor officials, a matter altogether too much neglected by the social reformer on earth.

From the array of books covering one wall of the breakfast room, Martin deduces that she teaches sociology, though he is hazy about what this means.