sociologisticadj.
/ˌsəʊʃɪɒləˈdʒɪstɪk/, /ˌsəʊsɪɒləˈdʒɪstɪk/, U.S. /ˌsoʊsiɑləˈdʒɪstɪk/, /ˌsoʊʃ(i)ɑləˈdʒɪstɪk/ Of, relating to, or characterized by sociologism; (also) sociological.
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society > society and the community > study of society > [adjective] > rendering sociological
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1898 Munic. Reg. of Holyoke 1897 244 The two great principles, the sociologistic and individualistic, are complementary parts of a symmetrical whole and must stand forever together.
1911 Pointer (Riverdale, Illinois) 27 Jan. (heading) F. C. Goldsborough, violinist, makes mysterious attack on sociologistic writer in New York Street.
1928 Social Forces 6 166 The graduate student may confuse Sorokin's classificatory terms such as ‘sociologistic school’, ‘bio-social school’, and the like.
1945 K. R. Popper Open Society II. xxiii. 205 If scientific objectivity were founded, as the sociologistic theory of knowledge naïvely assumes, upon the individual scientist's impartiality,..we should have to say good-bye to it.
1965 E. E. Evans-Pritchard Theories Primitive Relig. iii. 70 But, masterly though it was, its conclusions are an unconvincing piece of sociologistic metaphysics.
1993 B. Barber Constructing Social Syst. iii. 46 We must, of course, avoid also the psychologistic and sociologistic fallacies.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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