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sociological

[ soh-see-uh-loj-i-kuhl, soh-shee- ]

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of sociology and its methodology.
  2. dealing with social questions or problems, especially focusing on cultural and environmental factors rather than on psychological or personal characteristics:

    a sociological approach to art.

  3. organized into a society; social.


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Other Words From

  • so·ci·o·log·i·cal·ly adverb
  • non·so·ci·o·log·i·cal adjective
  • un·so·ci·o·log·i·cal adjective
  • un·so·ci·o·log·i·cal·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sociological1

First recorded in 1835–45; sociolog(y) + -ic + -al 1
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Example Sentences

Those who embark on this journey will face primordial sociological challenges involving matters related to both the individual and the collective well-being of the colony.

They’re the sharpest minds around about the analytical, psychological and sociological realities of global soccer, and at least one of them is convinced Arsenal’s best days are ahead of it.

The tweets have sociological implications as ways of creating meaning.

Mueller also sees the value in observing interactions, a common sociological approach.

There’s just so much work that’s been done — deep, complicated thinking going back to Plato and Aristotle, but also modern sociological work, including why a safety net and welfare is complicated.

That is a distinction with a sociological difference—for many, an uncomfortable one to consider.

The sociological phenomenon at play here exhibits all the historical tendencies of “scapegoating.”

This may account for the sociological undercurrent of his work.

But when she takes on the rock scene, she manages to catch all the sociological dissonance and subtle countermelodies.

But neither is it a rigorous sociological study or a polemic or a jeremiad.

It would be superfluous to insist here upon the great and constant utility of this branch of sociological speculation.

Second: Certain domestic applications of the physical and sociological sciences.

First of all by the enforcement of a sociological system in distinct opposition to, and in defiance of all ethnic conditions.

Islam attempts nothing unnatural of this kind—nothing that is opposed to ethnic conditions and sociological usages.

As a final hypothesis, we may mention one which may perhaps be described as specifically sociological.

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