social statics

noun

, Sociology.

1. the study of social systems as they exist at a given time.

Word History and Origins

Origin of social statics¹

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

It would have been better had he also studied social statics on the historical method.

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Being a reprint of the suppressed chapter from the original edition of "Social Statics," now rare and costly.

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Herbert Spencer, who had just published Social Statics, became one of her best friends.

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In his Social Statics he applied this idea to human life and moral civilisation.

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Their "declaration of rights" might well have been drawn a few years later by a student of Spencer's "Social Statics."

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