单词 | sociology |
释义 | sociologyn. 1. a. The study of the development, structure, and functioning of human society.educational, political sociology, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > study of society > [noun] social sciencea1770 sociology1842 social studies1853 humanics1860 societology1883 human ecology1907 macrosociology1941 1842 N.Y. Rev. Jan. 167 Thus Comte arrives at the five following great divisions of science: astronomy, natural philosophy, chemistry, physiology, and sociology. 1851 Fraser's Mag. 44 452 The new science of sociology, as it is barbarously termed. 1873 H. Spencer Study Sociol. iii. 59 Sociology has to recognize truths of social development, structure and function. 1897 L. F. Ward Social Philos. i. iv. 66 The nature of this being, man, whose associative habits form the chief subject of sociology. 1932 S. Webb & B. Webb Method Social Study i. 3 Sociology is concerned not with the individual man, regarded as a living organism.., but with relations among men. 1951 J. A. Spaulding & G. Simpson tr. E. Durkheim (title) Suicide. A study in sociology. 1977 R. Holland Self & Social Context ix. 260 A college would rather fall below its intake targets and lose revenue than take in sociology students. 1980 Daily Tel. 17 Apr. 10/8 He told me that he taught sociology and I told him straight that hogwash was not one of my subjects. 1998 J. M. Barbalet Emotion, Social Theory, & Social Structure (2001) i. 9 Resistance to the idea of a causal capacity of emotion in social life and social processes follows fairly directly from the present state of sociology. 2003 M. Ali Brick Lane ii. 29 This is what I am studying in the sub-section on Race, Ethnicity and Identity. It is part of the sociology module. b. The sociological aspects of a subject or discipline; a particular sociological system. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > study of society > [noun] > application to other fields sociology1865 1865 Biblical Repertory Apr. 347 He makes the speculations and discoveries of some physicists on the correlation and conservation of forces, a germ out of which he goes on to develope the materialistic sociology of the philosophy we are about to examine. 1893 Yale Law Jrnl. 3 5 I desire to see founded..a professorship of the ethics of jurisprudence, or the sociology of jurisprudence. 1916 E. Ehrlich in Harvard Law Rev. 29 582 Mr. Justice Holmes has suggested a criticism of my book on the sociology of law..in that he finds therein no reference to Montesquieu. 1928 P. A. Sorokin Contemp. Sociol. Theories i. 40 It will be more convenient to discuss his [sc. Weber's] sociology in the chapters on the sociology of religion. 1980 Eng. World-wide 1 179 The sociology of language..uses linguistic information as a means of describing social phenomena. 1992 S. Restivo Math. in Sci. & Hist. x. 174 As in all instances of social life, in mathematical culture too folk sociologies develop that compete with or complement professional sociologies. 2. The study of plant or animal communities. Chiefly with modifying word specifying the nature of the community studied. Cf. phytosociology n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > study > [noun] > communities sociology1932 1904 Science 22 Apr. 660/1 The science of botany had been greatly advanced by the study of plant-ecology or plant-sociology. 1932 G. D. Fuller & H. S. Conard tr. J. Braun-Blanquet Plant Sociol. 1 We may divide all biology into (1) idiobiology: the science of individual organisms; and (2) sociology: the science of organic communities. The latter is divided into the social science of man (sociology in the usual sense), zoosociology, and phytosociology or plant sociology. 1953 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles I. 35 We are learning more and more regarding what may be termed the sociology of birds. 1991 Animal Behaviour 41 613 Many major principles of animal sociology were developed or elaborated in North America. 2004 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 29 June f3/1 Usually, everybody thinks hibernation has to do with cold, said Dr. Gerhard Heldmaier, a professor of animal sociology. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1842 |
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