sociological

[ soh-see-uh-loj-i-kuhl, soh-shee- ]

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of sociology and its methodology.
2. dealing with social questions or problems, especially focusing on cultural and environmental factors rather than on psychological or personal characteristics:

   a sociological approach to art.

3. organized into a society; social.

Other Words From

• so·ci·o·log·i·cal·ly adverb
• non·so·ci·o·log·i·cal adjective
• un·so·ci·o·log·i·cal adjective
• un·so·ci·o·log·i·cal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of sociological¹

First recorded in 1835–45; sociolog(y) + -ic + -al ¹

Example Sentences

Those who embark on this journey will face primordial sociological challenges involving matters related to both the individual and the collective well-being of the colony.

From Singularity Hub 

They’re the sharpest minds around about the analytical, psychological and sociological realities of global soccer, and at least one of them is convinced Arsenal’s best days are ahead of it.

From FiveThirtyEight

The tweets have sociological implications as ways of creating meaning.

From No Straight News

Mueller also sees the value in observing interactions, a common sociological approach.

From Science News

There’s just so much work that’s been done — deep, complicated thinking going back to Plato and Aristotle, but also modern sociological work, including why a safety net and welfare is complicated.

From TechCrunch

That is a distinction with a sociological difference—for many, an uncomfortable one to consider.

From The Daily Beast

The sociological phenomenon at play here exhibits all the historical tendencies of “scapegoating.”

From The Daily Beast

This may account for the sociological undercurrent of his work.

From The Daily Beast

But when she takes on the rock scene, she manages to catch all the sociological dissonance and subtle countermelodies.

From The Daily Beast

But neither is it a rigorous sociological study or a polemic or a jeremiad.

From The Daily Beast

It would be superfluous to insist here upon the great and constant utility of this branch of sociological speculation.

From Project Gutenberg

Second: Certain domestic applications of the physical and sociological sciences.

From Project Gutenberg

First of all by the enforcement of a sociological system in distinct opposition to, and in defiance of all ethnic conditions.

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Islam attempts nothing unnatural of this kind—nothing that is opposed to ethnic conditions and sociological usages.

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As a final hypothesis, we may mention one which may perhaps be described as specifically sociological.

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