SOCIOLOGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sociology mean? 

• SOCIOLOGY (noun)
  The noun SOCIOLOGY has 1 sense:

1. the study and classification of human societies

  Familiarity information: SOCIOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOCIOLOGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The study and classification of human societies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("sociology" is a kind of...):

social science (the branch of science that studies society and the relationships of individual within a society)

Meronyms (parts of "sociology"):

structural sociology; structuralism (a sociological theory based on the premise that society comes before individuals)

Domain member category:

mores ((sociology) the conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sociology"):

criminology (the scientific study of crime and criminal behavior and law enforcement)

demography; human ecology (the branch of sociology that studies the characteristics of human populations)

psephology (the branch of sociology that studies election trends (as by opinion polls))

sociometry (the quantitative study of social relationships)

Derivation:

sociological (of or relating to or determined by sociology)

sociologist (a social scientist who studies the institutions and development of human society)

 Context examples 

Any one of them knows far more about sociology and all the other ologies than the average captain of industry.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Disciplines concerned with the study of human and animal behavior, such as psychology, sociology, and anthropology.

(Behavioral Sciences, NCI Thesaurus)

In the future, the understanding of this interaction between two brains would allow for the comprehension and analysis of very complex aspects of the fields of psychology, sociology, psychiatry, or education, using the neural images within an ecological or real-world context.

(Our Brains Synchronize during A Conversation, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Medical sociology is concerned with individual and group responses aimed at assessing well-being, maintaining health, acting upon real or perceived illness, interacting with health care systems, and maximizing health in the face of physiologic or functional derangement.

(Medical Sociology, NCI Thesaurus)

A social worker usually has a master's degree in social work and has studied sociology, growth and development, mental health theory and practice, human behavior/social environment, psychology, and research methods, and is licensed to practice by a state authority.

(Licensed Clinical Social Worker, NCI Thesaurus)