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Sociological

Sociologic \So`ci*o*log"ic\, Sociological \So`ci*o*log"ic*al\a. Of or pertaining to sociology, or social science. -- So`ci*o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sociological

1861; see sociology + -ical. Related: Sociologically.

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sociological

a. Of or pertaining to sociology

WordNet
sociological

adj. of or relating to or determined by sociology; "sociological studies"

Usage examples of "sociological".

It happened, as to the private Bastiles, that the women at last recognized a change in the sociological and political atmosphere of the world, and without consulting any men of affairs or caring for their opinion, down went the Bastiles.

He spoke of sociological trends in Chamisa County, in the entire United States.

He tried to demonstrate how the conservancy district and the dam was just one more component of the economic and sociological machinery which for a long time had been driving local small farmers off their land and out of Chamisa County.

After the hoorah about the Renfrew began to die down, I started using my time to search out sociological and psychological trends resulting from the presence of the gates on earth.

Somewhere under the wet and woolly sociological guff which he ladled so unstintingly over the Wilkinsons and me, there had to be a hard-core card-carrying fully-indoctrinated communist.

Estimates based on recent episodes of male unrest, six, ten, and thirteen decades ago, lead savants at the Institute for Sociological Trends to suggest that this somewhat more severe interlude may not pass in time to prevent short-term economic loss to many of our subscribers.

We learn all about the Tsar and Rasputin, when the real reason for the Revolution was an irresistible economic and sociological change.

He looked rather ridiculous up there talking about things like the sociological significance of protest and the psychological content of lynching, about the values of the Lowbrow movement and the hypocrisy of Senator Bartlett and his Subcommittee, about the importance of the scientific method and the necessity for the detachment of the scientist.

New York that could bring together, in honor of itself, a fraternity and equality crank like poor old Lindau, and a belated sociological crank like Woodburn, and a truculent speculator like old Dryfoos, and a humanitarian dreamer like young Dryfoos, and a sentimentalist like me, and a nondescript like Beaton, and a pure advertising essence like Fulkerson, and a society spirit like Kendricks.

For some reason -undoubtedly sociological - those assholes tend to fall into two categories: gordos disgustos or speed freak anorexics.

Suspecting at this point that the stranger is troubled by a lack of cultural life here below, Wernicke, the foreman, leads him and the director, who is smiling subtly to himself and holding Pluto loosely by the collar, to the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth stalls, which are all situated on the next lower, the twenty-five-hundred-foot level, and provide room respectively for philosophical, sociological, and ideological knowledge, achievements, and antinomies.

It could never occur because of Haha-san's chasteness, which came not from any philosophical, religious or sociological strictures, but simply because she was following the dictates set down for her by her mother.

Enough proof of Tran-ky-ky's erratic history both sociological and climatological to convince the stubbornest bureaucrat or Landgrave of The Truth.

We ran the sociological progressions, and visiting planetside on a rotating basis would have no adverse impact.

Some days later, he'd sat David down and given him a brief sociological lecture on the Age of Aquarius.