SOCIOLOGICAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sociological mean? 

• SOCIOLOGICAL (adjective)
  The adjective SOCIOLOGICAL has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or determined by sociology

  Familiarity information: SOCIOLOGICAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOCIOLOGICAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or determined by sociology

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

sociological studies

Pertainym:

sociology (the study and classification of human societies)

Derivation:

sociology (the study and classification of human societies)

 Context examples 

"By combining biological, ecological, historical and sociological analyses, new constraints on the impact of this plague were identified."

(Justinianic plague not a landmark pandemic?, National Science Foundation)

The integration of epidemiologic, sociological, economic, and other analytic sciences in the study of health services.

(Health Services Research, NCI Thesaurus)

That social-settlement woman is no more than a sociological poll-parrot.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She knew that whatever she did she must do according to the law, and in the long hours of watching, the shot-gun on her knees, the murderer restless beside her and the storms thundering without, she made original sociological researches and worked out for herself the evolution of the law.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Oh, I mean the real interpretative biology, from the ground up, from the laboratory and the test-tube and the vitalized inorganic right on up to the widest aesthetic and sociological generalizations.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)