Pronunciation
- enPR: sō-shē-ŏl′-əjē
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌsəʊsiːˈɒlədʒiː/, /ˌsəʊʃiːˈɒlədʒiː/
Noun
sociology (plural sociologies)
- 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.
Translations
study of society, human social interactions, etc.
- Afrikaans: sosiologie
- Albanian: sociologji (sq) f
- Antillean Creole: sosioloji f
- Arabic: عِلْم الْمُجْتَمَع m (ʕilm al-mujtamaʕ)
- Aragonese: sociolochía f, soziolochía f
- Armenian: սոցիոլոգիա (hy) (socʻiologia), հասարակագիտություն (hy) (hasarakagitutʻyun)
- Assamese: সমাজ বিজ্ঞান (xomaz biggan)
- Azerbaijani:
- Abjad: اجتماعيات (ijtimāeiāt)
- Roman: ictimaiyyat, sosiologiya
- Basque: soziologia
- Belarusian: сацыяло́гія f (sacyjalóhija), сацыялёгія f (sacyjaljóhija), грамадазна́ўства n (hramadaznáŭstva)
- Bengali: সমাজবিজ্ঞান (bn) (śomajbiggên)
- Bulgarian: социоло́гия f (sociológija)
- Burmese: လူမှုဗေဒ (luhmu.beda.)
- Catalan: sociologia (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 社會學／社会学 (se5 wui6-2 hok6)
- Mandarin: 社會學／社会学 (zh) (shèhuìxué)
- Corsican: suciolugia f, sociolugia f, suciulugia f
- Czech: sociologie (cs) f
- Danish: sociologi (da) c
- Dutch: sociologie (nl) f
- Esperanto: sociologio
- Estonian: sotsioloogia
- Faroese: samfelagsfrøði f, sosiologi
- Finnish: sosiologia (fi)
- French: sociologie (fr) f
- Galician: socioloxía (gl) f
- Georgian: სოციოლოგია (sociologia)
- German: Soziologie (de) f, Gesellschaftskunde f
- Greek: κοινωνιολογία (el) f (koinoniología)
- Gujarati: સમાજશાસ્ત્ર (samājśāstra)
- Hebrew: סוֹצִיוֹלוֹגִיָה (he) f (sotsyológya)
- Hindi: समाजशास्त्र (hi) m (samājśāstra)
- Hungarian: szociológia (hu)
- Icelandic: félagsfræði f
- Ido: sociologio (io)
- Indonesian: sosiologi (id)
- Irish: socheolaíocht f
- Italian: sociologia (it) f
- Japanese: 社会学 (ja) (しゃかいがく, shakaigaku)
- Kannada: ಸಮಾಜಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ (kn) (samājaśāstra)
- Kazakh: әлеуметтану (äleumettanu)
- Khmer: សង្គមវិទ្យា (sɑngkum vityiə), សិក្សាសង្គម (səksaa sɑngkum)
- Korean: 사회학(社會學) (ko) (sahoehak)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: civaknasî (ku)
- Kyrgyz: социология (ky) (sotsiologiya)
- Lao: ສັງຄົມສາດ (lo) (sang khom sāt), ສັງຄົມວິທະຍາ (sang khom wi tha nyā)
- Latin: sociologia f
- Latvian: socioloģija f
- Lithuanian: sociologija (lt) f
- Macedonian: социологија f (sociologija)
- Malay: sosiologi (ms)
- Malayalam: സമൂഹശാസ്ത്രം (samūhaśāstraṁ)
- Maltese: soċjoloġija
- Maori: mātauranga hapori
- Marathi: समाजशास्त्र (samājśāstra)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: социологи (sociologi)
- Nepali: समाजशास्त्र (samājaśāstra)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sosiologi m
- Nynorsk: sosiologi m
- Occitan: sociologia f
- Pashto: ټولنپوهنه (ps) f (ṭolənpohəna), سوسيولوژي (ps) f (sosioloži), سوسيالوجي f (sosiāloji)
- Persian: جامِعِهشِناسی (fa) (jâme'e-šenâsi)
- Polish: socjologia (pl) f
- Portuguese: sociologia (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਸਮਾਜ ਸ਼ਾਸਤਰ (pa) (samāj śāstar)
- Romanian: sociologie (ro) f
- Russian: социоло́гия (ru) f (sociológija), обществове́дение (ru) n (obščestvovédenije)
- Sardinian: sotziologia f, sotziolozia f
- Scots: sociologie, sociology
- Scottish Gaelic: eòlas-comainn m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: социоло̀гија f
- Roman: sociològija (sh) f
- Slovak: sociológia f
- Slovene: sociologija (sl) f
- Spanish: sociología (es) f
- Swahili: sosholojia
- Swedish: sociologi (sv)
- Tagalog: sosyolohiya
- Tajik: ҷамъиятшиносӣ (tg) (jamʾiyatšinosi), сотсиология (tg) (sotsiologiya), ҷомеашиносӣ (tg) (jomeašinosi)
- Tamil: சமூகவியல் (ta) (camūkaviyal)
- Tatar: социология (sotsioloğiyä)
- Telugu: సామాజిక శాస్త్రం (sāmājika śāstraṁ)
- Thai: สังคมวิทยา (sǎng-kom-wít-tá-yaa)
- Turkish: sosyoloji (tr)
- Turkmen: sosiologiýa
- Ukrainian: соціоло́гія (uk) f (sociolóhija), суспільствозна́вство n (suspilʹstvoznávstvo)
- Urdu: عِمْرانِیّات ('imrāniyyāt), سَماجِیات (samājiyāt)
- Uyghur: جەمئىيەتشۇناسلىق (jem'iyetshunasliq)
- Uzbek: sotsiologiya (uz)
- Vietnamese: xã hội học (vi) (社會學)
- Welsh: cymdeithaseg m
- West Frisian: sosjology
- Yiddish: סאָציאָלאָגיע f (sotsyologye)
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References
“On the Origin and Use of the Word "Sociology," and on the Relation of Sociological to Other Studies and to Practical Problems”, in American Journal of Sociology, volume 9, number 2, 2022 August 24 (last accessed), pages 145-162
Further reading
- "sociology" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 295.
