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social statics

noun

, Sociology.
  1. the study of social systems as they exist at a given time.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of social statics1

First recorded in 1850–55
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Example Sentences

It would have been better had he also studied social statics on the historical method.

Being a reprint of the suppressed chapter from the original edition of "Social Statics," now rare and costly.

Herbert Spencer, who had just published Social Statics, became one of her best friends.

In his Social Statics he applied this idea to human life and moral civilisation.

Their "declaration of rights" might well have been drawn a few years later by a student of Spencer's "Social Statics."

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