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noun

sociology

the study and classification of human societies

In a sentence

Six example sentences with sociology, each labelled with its topic.

  • She switched from psychology to sociology because she wanted to explain crowds and neighborhoods rather than individual minds.

    Psychology

  • The novel reads like sociology, mapping how three generations of one factory town sorted themselves into rival streets.

    Literature

  • A sociology seminar traced how voting patterns followed church attendance and union membership across forty small towns.

    Politics

  • Economics counts the transactions, while sociology asks why the same market feels fair in one town and rigged in another.

    Economics

  • A sociology course used basketball to show how one playground could produce three generations of the city's best guards.

    Basketball

  • Medical sociology studies why patients on the same ward recover at different rates depending on who visits them.

    Medicine

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