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1851 J. Stephen Lect. Hist. France I. vii. 243 The dissent from their doctrines of any one who does not sociologise—that is, who does not ‘think’—must of course..appear to them utterly unimportant.

1881 R. L. Stevenson Virginibus Puerisque 242 We walk the streets to make romances and to sociologise.

1958 Sociometry 21 18 The sociologist who feels he cannot sociologize without aid from a professional statistician.

1997 G. Fennell in J. Eade Living Global City vi. 104 We are all sociologists now, people sociologize, in order to live and survive in complex societies.

1936 Jrnl. Relig. 16 258 We have biologized ourselves as products of natural drives... We have sociologized ourselves into a humanism of mutual aid.

1946 Social Forces 25 88/1 A sociologist let loose in an organization such as the United States Navy can not avoid the temptation to ‘sociologize’ his own experiences to some extent.

1971 New Society 7 Jan. 24/2 How many sociologists are there in Britain? We do not know, for the profession has not seriously sociologised itself.

1999 K. Hirschkop Mikhail Bakhtin iv. 220 Habermas does not replace the great Kantian values with sociological ones, but agrees to sociologize the Kantian critiques themselves.

1895 J. M. Robertson Buckle & his Critics xii. 505 Not one of all these writers, be it observed, is to be described as a sociologising or economic historian.

1914 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 19 654 The plain matter of fact with which all our sociologizings start is that no person exists in a moral vacuum.

1998 D. Pels Prop. & Power in Social Theory i. 39 The work of ‘sociologizing’ jurists such as Renner, Duguit, or Friedmann already exemplifies an advanced state of convergence between the analytics of property and power.

2005 T. Sanders Sex Work iii. 37 In recent times there has been much ‘sociologizing’ of both these complex concepts in all areas of the social sciences.