sociology

Noun

Meaning

That branch of philosophy which treats of the constitution, phenomena, and development of human society; social science.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

social science government history geography anthropology sociologist civics folklore social anthropology sociological sociologically psychophysiology social psychology social work sociocultural
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Hypernyms

social science science field study subject domain

Hyponyms

demography criminology psephology sociometry human ecology

Phrases with the word

formal sociology evolutionary sociology language sociology music sociology cultural sociology

Examples

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable. Nadine Gordimer

...there must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientist, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. Ralph Ellison

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions. Richard Russo

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many. Ulrich Beck

Sociology is the science which has the most methods and the least results. Henri Poincaré

Whether sociology can ever become a full-fledged "science" (a description of a class of events predictable on the basis of deductions from a constant rationale) depends on whether the terms which sociologists employ to describe events can be analyzed into quantifiable observables. Anatol Rapoport

Close letter words and terms

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