sociology
IPA: soʊsiˈɑɫʌdʒi
noun
- 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.
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Examples of "sociology" in Sentences
- He has majored sociology.
- Goode specializes in the sociology of deviance.
- He founded the Department of Sociology in 1963.
- Sociology uses the past to describe the present.
- Today the sociology and the psychology are more sophisticated.
- The building is now the Sociology Department of the University.
- The work is considered a milestone in the sociology of knowledge.