sociogenic
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adjective Arising from or imposed by society.
- adjective Motivated by social influences, values, or constraints.
Examples
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Each of these traits has a “biogenic” nature (it’s a matter of genetics); a “sociogenic” nature (it’s a part of what our culture teaches us); and an “idiogenic” nature (it’s just one of those things that makes us us).
Are human beings just a group of traits?: Brian Little speaks on personality at TED2016
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While New York City firefighters and Tokyo schoolchildren have both succumbed to what experts categorize as a mass sociogenic or psychogenic illness, young women are particularly vulnerable - and in Cambodia they make up most of the garment industry's 350,000-strong workforce.
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Before the 20th century, most reports of mass delusions or hysterical outbreaks - known to sociologists and psychologists as 'mass sociogenic illness' - involved people exposed to strict discipline for a long time.
Note
The word 'sociogenic' comes from the prefix 'socio-' ('society, socially') and '-genic' ('producing, generated by').
