From French sociologie, coined by Auguste Comte in 1834, itself a combination of Latin socius (“companion, fellowship”) and the Greek suffix Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía), itself from Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos, “word, knowledge”), from socio- + -logy.
Previous mentions of the field in English usually referred to it as social physics.[1]
- enPR: sō-shē-ŏl′-əjē
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌsəʊsiːˈɒlədʒiː/, /ˌsəʊʃiːˈɒlədʒiː/
sociology (plural sociologies)
- A social science that studies society, human social interaction, patterns of social relationships, and the interactions of culture. Through both theory and applied research, it engages subject matters across a range of microanalysis, mesoanalysis, and macroanalysis.
study of society, human social interactions, etc.
- Afrikaans: sosiologie
- Albanian: sociologji (sq) f
- Antillean Creole: sosioloji f
- Arabic: عِلْم الْمُجْتَمَع m (ʕilm al-mujtamaʕ)
- Aragonese: sociolochía f, soziolochía f
- Armenian: սոցիոլոգիա (hy) (socʻiologia), հասարակագիտություն (hy) (hasarakagitutʻyun)
- Assamese: সমাজ বিজ্ঞান (xomaz biggan)
- Azerbaijani:
- Abjad: اجتماعيات (ijtimāeiāt)
- Roman: ictimaiyyat, sosiologiya
- Basque: soziologia
- Belarusian: сацыяло́гія f (sacyjalóhija), сацыялёгія f (sacyjaljóhija), грамадазна́ўства n (hramadaznáŭstva)
- Bengali: সমাজবিজ্ঞান (bn) (śomajbiggên)
- Bulgarian: социоло́гия f (sociológija)
- Burmese: လူမှုဗေဒ (luhmu.beda.)
- Catalan: sociologia (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 社會學／社会学 (se5 wui6-2 hok6)
- Mandarin: 社會學／社会学 (zh) (shèhuìxué)
- Corsican: suciolugia f, sociolugia f, suciulugia f
- Czech: sociologie (cs) f
- Danish: sociologi (da) c
- Dutch: sociologie (nl) f
- Esperanto: sociologio
- Estonian: sotsioloogia
- Faroese: samfelagsfrøði f, sosiologi
- Finnish: sosiologia (fi)
- French: sociologie (fr) f
- Galician: socioloxía (gl) f
- Georgian: სოციოლოგია (sociologia)
- German: Soziologie (de) f, Gesellschaftskunde f
- Greek: κοινωνιολογία (el) f (koinoniología)
- Gujarati: સમાજશાસ્ત્ર (samājśāstra)
- Hebrew: סוֹצִיוֹלוֹגִיָה (he) f (sotsyológya)
- Hindi: समाजशास्त्र (hi) m (samājśāstra)
- Hungarian: szociológia (hu)
- Icelandic: félagsfræði f
- Ido: sociologio (io)
- Indonesian: sosiologi (id)
- Irish: socheolaíocht f
- Italian: sociologia (it) f
- Japanese: 社会学 (ja) (しゃかいがく, shakaigaku)
- Kannada: ಸಮಾಜಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ (kn) (samājaśāstra)
- Kazakh: әлеуметтану (äleumettanu)
- Khmer: សង្គមវិទ្យា (sɑngkum vityiə), សិក្សាសង្គម (səksaa sɑngkum)
- Korean: 사회학(社會學) (ko) (sahoehak)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: civaknasî (ku)
- Kyrgyz: социология (ky) (sotsiologiya)
- Lao: ສັງຄົມສາດ (lo) (sang khom sāt), ສັງຄົມວິທະຍາ (sang khom wi tha nyā)
- Latin: sociologia f
- Latvian: socioloģija f
- Lithuanian: sociologija (lt) f
- Macedonian: социологија f (sociologija)
- Malay: sosiologi (ms)
- Malayalam: സമൂഹശാസ്ത്രം (samūhaśāstraṁ)
- Maltese: soċjoloġija
- Maori: mātauranga hapori
- Marathi: समाजशास्त्र (samājśāstra)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: социологи (sociologi)
- Nepali: समाजशास्त्र (samājaśāstra)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sosiologi m
- Nynorsk: sosiologi m
- Occitan: sociologia f
- Pashto: ټولنپوهنه (ps) f (ṭolənpohəna), سوسيولوژي (ps) f (sosioloži), سوسيالوجي f (sosiāloji)
- Persian: جامِعِهشِناسی (fa) (jâme'e-šenâsi)
- Polish: socjologia (pl) f
- Portuguese: sociologia (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਸਮਾਜ ਸ਼ਾਸਤਰ (pa) (samāj śāstar)
- Romanian: sociologie (ro) f
- Russian: социоло́гия (ru) f (sociológija), обществове́дение (ru) n (obščestvovédenije)
- Sardinian: sotziologia f, sotziolozia f
- Scots: sociologie, sociology
- Scottish Gaelic: eòlas-comainn m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: социоло̀гија f
- Roman: sociològija (sh) f
- Slovak: sociológia f
- Slovene: sociologija (sl) f
- Spanish: sociología (es) f
- Swahili: sosholojia
- Swedish: sociologi (sv)
- Tagalog: sosyolohiya
- Tajik: ҷамъиятшиносӣ (tg) (jamʾiyatšinosi), сотсиология (tg) (sotsiologiya), ҷомеашиносӣ (tg) (jomeašinosi)
- Tamil: சமூகவியல் (ta) (camūkaviyal)
- Tatar: социология (sotsioloğiyä)
- Telugu: సామాజిక శాస్త్రం (sāmājika śāstraṁ)
- Thai: สังคมวิทยา (sǎng-kom-wít-tá-yaa)
- Turkish: sosyoloji (tr)
- Turkmen: sosiologiýa
- Ukrainian: соціоло́гія (uk) f (sociolóhija), суспільствозна́вство n (suspilʹstvoznávstvo)
- Urdu: عِمْرانِیّات ('imrāniyyāt), سَماجِیات (samājiyāt)
- Uyghur: جەمئىيەتشۇناسلىق (jem'iyetshunasliq)
- Uzbek: sotsiologiya (uz)
- Vietnamese: xã hội học (vi) (社會學)
- Welsh: cymdeithaseg m
- West Frisian: sosjology
- Yiddish: סאָציאָלאָגיע f (sotsyologye)
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- ^ “On the Origin and Use of the Word "Sociology," and on the Relation of Sociological to Other Studies and to Practical Problems”, in American Journal of Sociology[1], volume 9, number 2, 2022 August 24 (last accessed), pages 145-162
- "sociology" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 295.
