sociologismn.
/ˌsəʊʃɪˈɒlədʒɪz(ə)m/, /ˌsəʊsɪˈɒlədʒɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌsoʊsiˈɑləˌdʒɪz(ə)m/, /ˌsoʊʃ(i)ˈɑləˌdʒɪz(ə)m/ Frequently depreciative.
The (excessive) tendency to explain matters in sociological terms, or to ascribe a sociological basis to other disciplines.
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society > society and the community > study of society > [noun] > rendering sociological
sociologizing1895
sociologism1901
1901 Internat. Monthly July 608 Realistic philosophy ran to its extreme, from materialism to psychologism and sociologism.
1907 Philos. Rev. 16 222 Formal logic has another adversary in what may be termed ‘sociologism’, i.e., the pretension of sociology to replace and absorb philosophy.
1964 I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. 17 The recent work in some quarters, ostensibly critical of excessive sociologism, seems to point precisely in the direction of the self-liquidation of sociology.
1978 E. A. Tiryakian in T. Bottomore & R. Nisbet Hist. Sociol. Anal. vi. 212 Durkheim's ‘sociologism’ in this respect amounts to no less than an epistemological revolution.
1999 S. Winter Freud & Inst. of Psychoanalytic Knowl. 281 I attempt to eschew sociologism..by drawing on the methods of several different disciplines.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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