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SOCIOLOGY

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Dictionary entry overview: What does sociology mean?

• SOCIOLOGY (noun)
The noun SOCIOLOGY has 1 sense:

1. the study and classification of human societies

Familiarity information: SOCIOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.

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• SOCIOLOGY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The study and classification of human societies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("sociology" is a kind of...):

social science (the branch of science that studies society and the relationships of individual within a society)

Meronyms (parts of "sociology"):

structural sociology; structuralism (a sociological theory based on the premise that society comes before individuals)

Domain member category:

mores ((sociology) the conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sociology"):

criminology (the scientific study of crime and criminal behavior and law enforcement)

demography; human ecology (the branch of sociology that studies the characteristics of human populations)

psephology (the branch of sociology that studies election trends (as by opinion polls))

sociometry (the quantitative study of social relationships)

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