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sociological

sociological

27 6.4
Relating to the study of society and how people live and behave together
  • adjective
  • /ˌsoʊsiəˈlɑːdʒɪkəl/
  • Specialized
translation icon : sociológico
  • The sociological research showed how social structures affect individual behavior.
  • sociological theories
  • sociological study
  • sociological aspects

And that that has been the sociological question since the discipline was created.

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Examples

  • What is inescapable is farmers are a sociological category of people different from non farmers in all kinds of critical ways.

  • And both the United States and United Kingdom face the same sociological dilemma.

  • Yes, this is from at least a number of, you know, sociological studies about how we actually get to these goals.

  • But that is just based on what I call earlier as some sociological factors.

  • Oh, it's a sociological study.

  • I think they could sense immediately that I was onto something important in a sociological sense.

  • It's part of a larger sociological experiment.

  • If you were to think about it from more like a sociological perspective, what does that come from?

  • Oh, there's a sociological question in a way.

  • Therefore, environmental educators should present an appropriate sociological context in which individuals can be encouraged in environmental action.

    Academic text (1999)

Compounds

sociological theory
  • Specialized
1 6.6

An idea that explains patterns in how people live and act in society

How Biological

biological
340 3.5
sociobiologic
  • Specialized
9.9
sociological
  • Specialized
27 6.4
social
1.3

Surface Forms

sociological positive

Morphology

sociological = sociology (transparent) = socio + log + ical

The transformation from 'sociology' to 'sociological' is a standard adjectival formation.

Etymology

Sociological comes from the Latin word socius, meaning 'companion', which you can see in social and society, and from the ending -logy, meaning 'study', like in biology. So sociological means 'about the study of how people live together and form groups'.