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so·ci·ol·o·gy

(sō′sē-ŏl′ə-jē, -shē-)

1. The study of human social behavior, especially the study of the origins, organization, institutions, and development of human society.

2. Analysis of a social institution or societal segment as a self-contained entity or in relation to society as a whole.

[French sociologie : socio-, socio- + -logie, study (from Greek -logiā; see -logy).]

so′ci·o·log′ic (-ə-lŏj′ĭk), so′ci·o·log′i·cal (-ĭ-kəl) adj.

so′ci·o·log′i·cal·ly adv.

so′ci·ol′o·gist n.

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sociology

(ˌsəʊsɪˈɒlədʒɪ)

(Sociology) the study of the development, organization, functioning, and classification of human societies

sociological adj

ˌsocioˈlogically adv

ˌsociˈologist n

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so•ci•ol•o•gy

(ˌsoʊ siˈɒl ə dʒi, ˌsoʊ ʃi-)

n.

the science or study of the origin, development, organization, and functioning of human society; science of the fundamental laws of social relations, institutions, etc.

[1835–45; < French sociologie, coined by A. Comte in 1830; see socio-, -logy]

so`ci•ol′o•gist, n.

so·ci·ol·o·gy

(sō′sē-ŏl′ə-jē)

The scientific study of human social behavior and its origins, development, organizations, and institutions.

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sociology

1. the science or study of the origin, development, organization, and functioning of human society.
2. the science of fundamental laws of social behavior, relations, institutions, etc. — sociologist, n. — sociological, adj.

sociology

The scientific study of human societies, including their functioning, origins, and development.

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sociology - the study and classification of human societies

mores - (sociology) the conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group

social science - the branch of science that studies society and the relationships of individual within a society

criminology - the scientific study of crime and criminal behavior and law enforcement

demography, human ecology - the branch of sociology that studies the characteristics of human populations

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sociometry - the quantitative study of social relationships

structural sociology, structuralism - a sociological theory based on the premise that society comes before individuals

Translations

عِلْمُ الْاجْتِمَاعِ

sociologie

sociologi

sosiologia

sociologija

社会学

사회학

sociologi

สังคมวิทยา

toplumbilim

xã hội học

社会学

sociology

[ˌsəʊsɪˈɒlədʒɪ] N → sociología f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

sociology

[ˌsəʊsiˈɒlədʒi] n → sociologie f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

sociology

n → Soziologie f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

sociology

[ˌsəʊsɪˈɒlədʒɪ] n → sociologia

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

sociology

→ عِلْمُ الْاجْتِمَاعِ sociologie sociologi Soziologie κοινωνιολογία sociología sosiologia sociologie sociologija sociologia 社会学 사회학 sociologie sosiologi socjologia sociologia социология sociologi สังคมวิทยา toplumbilim xã hội học 社会学

sociology

n. sociología, ciencia que trata de las relaciones sociales y de los fenómenos de tipo social.

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Perhaps it would be as well to start out with a broad and rapid sketch of Nietzsche as a writer on Morals, Evolution, and Sociology, so that the reader may be prepared to pick out for himself, so to speak, all passages in this work bearing in any way upon Nietzsche's views in those three important branches of knowledge.

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Freddie Drummond was a professor in the Sociology Department of the University of California, and it was as a professor of sociology that he first crossed over the Slot, lived for six mouths in the great labour-ghetto, and wrote The Unskilled Labourer--a book that was hailed everywhere as an able contribution to the literature of progress, and as a splendid reply to the literature of discontent.

For he was very young to be a doctor of sociology, only twenty- seven, and he looked younger.

It was Freddie Drummond, irreproachably clothed and comported, seated at his study desk or facing his class in Sociology 17, who saw Bill Totts, and all around Bill Totts, and all around the whole scab and union-labour problem and its relation to the economic welfare of the United States in the struggle for the world market.

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According to his rough-hewn sociology, it was all a gamble.

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He went back to his room and to the volume of Spencer's "Sociology" lying open on the bed.

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Such a student, if he be bright, will profit more by an experience like this than he could profit by all the books on sociology and economics that ever were written.

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However, I don't propose to discuss politics, sociology, or metaphysics with you.

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Your sociology is as vicious and worthless as is your method of thinking."

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"It has been my custom for many years, as a student of economics and sociology, to acquaint myself--"

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"The Institution of Sociological Theory in Canada." Canadian Review of Sociology I Revue canadienne de sociologie 55(1):9-39.

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