sociometryn.

1900 Mind 9 108 All these discussions are interesting and suggestive, though the value of them is perhaps less due to the ‘objective sociometry’ which M. Coste rates so highly, than to his own ‘subjective’ insight as a critic of complex social and political phenomena.

1908 W. De Morgan Somehow Good xi. 99 ‘I suppose you'd admit there are such things as social distinctions?’ Sally wouldn't admit anything whatever. If sociometry was to be a science, it must be worked out without axioms or postulates.

1933 J. L. Moreno in Proc. Amer. Assoc. on Mental Deficiency 224 The mathematical study of psychological properties of populations, the experimental technique of and the results obtained by the application of quantitative and qualitative methods is called sociometry.

1963 C. Flament Applic. of Graph Theory to Group Structure i. 37 This is a systematization of a current notion in sociometry: all the individuals of a clique choose each other.

1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Mar. 343/2 Mr Lucas deserves a loud cheer for writing a whole informative chapter on the way members of groups affect each other in communities without once using that dreadful word, beloved of educational theories, sociometry.

2004 P. Qualter in S. P. Shohov Adv. in Psychol. Res. XXVII. vii. 150 To use sociometry to investigate changes in quality of friendship is misleading because all it is doing is assessing changes in the social hierarchy.