sociology

IPA: soʊsiˈɑɫʌdʒi

A social science that studies society, human social interaction, patterns of social relationships, and the interactions of culture. Through both theory and applied research, it engages subject matters across a range of microanalysis, mesoanalysis, and macroanalysis.

Examples of "sociology" in Sentences

The term sociology was coined by [[Auguste Comte]] in 1839.
Your sociology is as vicious and worthless as is your method of thinking. '
I soon learned that scholarship in sociology was not as easy as I imagined.
Richard recently graduated with a bachelor's in sociology from the University of Maryland.
That is how I was able to make my claim of mine being #4 in sociology and top ten in history and poly-sci.
Finally, I recall my oldest daughter's comment that in sociology courses you only learn that "There's poverty and America sucks."
He coined the term sociology and gave it its first content, and he is renowned for having introduced the sociology of gender and emotion into sociology.
There is the well-known "rule of 150" in sociology, which is that it is not possible to know more than about 150 people well enough to have sufficiently strong social ties that no formal rules are required.
I do not deny that sociology, in the department of purely descriptive anatomy of the social organism, has made great and fruitful new contributions to contemporary science, even developing into some specialized branches of sociology, of which _criminal sociology_, thanks to the labors of the Italian school, has become one of the most important results.