社会学

社会学

See also: 社會學

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 社会学 – see 社會學 (“sociology”). (This term, 社会学, is the simplified form of 社會學.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
社	会	学
しゃ Grade: 2	かい Grade: 2	がく Grade: 1
kan’on

Etymology

From 社会 (shakai, “society”) +‎ 学 (-gaku, “-graphy; -logy”). Coined by Masakazu Toyama as a calque of French sociologie.[1][2]

Pronunciation

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • (Tokyo) しゃか​いがく [shàkáꜜìgàkù] (Nakadaka – [2])[3][4][5]
  • IPA^(key): [ɕa̠ka̠iɡa̠kɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

社会学 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 社會學, hiragana しゃかいがく, rōmaji shakaigaku, historical hiragana しやくわいがく)

1. sociology[6]

Descendants

• → Chinese: 社會學
• → Korean: 사회학 (sahoehak)
• → Vietnamese: xã hội học

References

1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
2. 1998, 広辞苑 (Kōjien), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
3. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
4. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
5. 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
6. 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.