sociology

English

Etymology

From French sociologie, coined by Auguste Comte in 1834, itself a combination of Latin socius (“companion, fellowship”) and the Greek suffix Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía), itself from Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos, “word, knowledge”).

Previous mentions of the field in English usually referred to it as social physics.[1]

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.

Meronyms

See also Thesaurus:sociology

Derived terms

sociologist

Translations

study of society, human social interactions, etc.

Afrikaans: sosiologie
Albanian: sociologja
Arabic: عِلْم اَلْمُجْتَمَع‎ m (ʿilm al-mujtamaʿ)
Armenian: սոցիոլոգիա (hy) (socʿiologia), հասարակագիտություն (hy) (hasarakagitutʿyun)
Assamese: সমাজ বিজ্ঞান (xomaz biggan)
Azerbaijani: sosiologiya
Basque: soziologia
Belarusian: сацыялогія f (sacyjalóhija)
Bengali: সমাজবিজ্ঞান (bn) (sômajôbigẏan)
Bulgarian: социология (bg) f (sociologija)
Burmese: လူမှုဗေဒ (luhmu.beda.)
Catalan: sociologia (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 社會學／社会学 (zh) (shèhuìxué)
Czech: sociologie (cs) f
Danish: sociologi (da) c
Dutch: sociologie (nl) f
Esperanto: sociologio
Estonian: sotsioloogia
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: סוציולוגיה‎ (he) f (sotsyológya)
Hindi: समाजशास्त्र (hi) (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 vityie), សិក្សាសង្គម (səksaa sɑngkum)
Korean: 사회학(社會學) (ko) (sahoehak)
Kyrgyz: социология (ky) (sotsiologiya)
Latin: sociologia f
Latvian: socioloģija f
Lithuanian: sociologija (lt) f
Macedonian: социологија f (sociologija)
Malay: sosiologi (ms)
Malayalam: സമൂഹശാസ്ത്രം (samūhaśāstraṃ)
Maltese: soċjoloġija
Maori: mātauranga hapori
Marathi: समाजशास्त्र (samājśāstra)
Nepali: समाजशास्त्र (samājaśāstra)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sosiologi m
Nynorsk: sosiologi m
Occitan: sociologia f
Persian: جامعه‌شناسی‎ (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)
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) (jamʾiyatšinosī)
Tamil: சமூகவியல் (ta) (camūkaviyal)
Telugu: సామాజిక శాస్త్రం (sāmājika śāstraṁ)
Thai: สังคมวิทยา (sang-kom-wit-ta-ya)
Turkish: sosyoloji (tr)
Turkmen: sosiologiýa
Ukrainian: соціоло́гія (uk) f (sociolóhija)
Uzbek: sotsiologiya (uz)
Vietnamese: xã hội học (vi) (社會學)
Welsh: cymdeithaseg m
West Frisian: sosjology
Yiddish: סאָציאָלאָגיע‎ f (sotsyologye)

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, issue 2, accessed 2022-Aug-24, pages 145-162