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sociologically

sociologically

3 7.4
A way of looking at society and how people live together
  • adverb
  • /ˌsoʊsiəˈlɑːdʒɪkli/
  • Specialized
: sociológicamente
  • Sociologically, communication patterns can reveal much about the relationships within a community.
  • sociologically and psychologically
  • sociologically oriented
  • more sociologically

Am I healthy, you see, Sociologically, Am I socially interacting?

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Examples

  • Within the 15 sports, several notable differences were found, some of which are sociologically revealing.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Sociologically, the older female athletes are currently indicating that they receive benefits from sports participation.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Boxing sociologically is a sport of the poor.

  • The typical American novel is content to be typical, sociologically speaking.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • The gin was more important sociologically than technically.

    Academic text (2009)
  • As will become clear, we argue that this concept could provide a sociologically well-founded basis for future government thinking and practice.

    Academic text (2003)
  • OK, let's accept that account as both morally and sociologically compelling.

  • Nevertheless, it would prove sociologically provocative to examine this phenomenon further.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Gentle Horse's wives, sociologically, were "sisters" who had been raised together, but biologically they were first cousins.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Sociologically oriented models will advocate for the needs of the homeless by brokering and contracting with neighborhood and community resources.

    Academic text (2011)

Synonyms

socially
vssociologically
188 1.6

In a way that involves people meeting and talking with others

is more formal and analytic, focusing on large-scale structures not daily interactions
societally
vssociologically
2 6.8

In a way that affects many people in a community or country

is more about academic study of relationships among people and their structures

Surface Forms

sociologically positive

Morphology

sociologically = sociological (transparent) = sociology + ical + ly

Formed by adding the regular adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'sociological', a transparent derivation.

Etymology

The word sociologically comes from the Latin socius, meaning 'companion' or 'friend', and the part -logy, meaning 'study' (the same part you see in biology). So sociologically means looking at things as the 'study of people together', that is, seeing how people and groups live and relate in society.