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sociology

sociology

50 3.9
The study of how people live and work together
  • noun
  • /ˌsoʊsiˈɑːlədʒi/
  • Specialized
translation icon : sociología
  • A few years ago, I took a sociology course at a local college solely for fun.
  • psychology and sociology
  • anthropology and sociology
  • science and sociology

And that's just the reality of the sociology of science.

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Examples

  • - So I was wondering if you could help me with my sociology paper.

  • I got a a masters in sociology, after that a PhD.

  • So Jack, you were a sociology student here.

  • MAN 3: I was a sociology major.

  • I remember reading about this in my sociology class.

  • Why do all the good ones go into sociology?

  • We're talking about the sociology of COVID, what it has done to us as a civilization.

  • A professor of writing and sociology, she enjoys small-town life with her family in Minnesota.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Jennifer Storch is a graduate student in sociology at the University of Texas at Austin.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Jennifer Storch is a graduate student in sociology at the University of Texas at Austin.

Synonyms

soc
vssociology
  • Jargon
1 8.9

A course about how people and groups behave

is the formal, full study of human society and its structures

Compounds

A part of a university that teaches and studies how people live together

structural sociology
  • Specialized
7.8

Study of how social institutions shape people's actions and relationships

How Biological

genetics
  • Specialized
123 3.7
biology
251 2.5
sociobiology
  • Specialized
1 9.1
sociology
  • Specialized
50 3.9

Surface Forms

sociology singular
sociologies plural

Morphology

sociology = socio + logy

The word is compositionally built from the learned combining form socio- and the suffix -logy, but the pieces are not ordinary free words for most B1 learners.

Etymology

The word sociology comes from the parts socio- meaning 'companion' or 'being with others' and -logy meaning 'study', and you can see the same root in social. So, sociology is literally the study of people living together and how societies work.