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  • Of or pertaining to sociology, or sociologic principles or matters: as, sociological studies or observations.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to sociology

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  • adjective of or relating to or determined by sociology

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Examples

  • The two anthropologists theorized that a long history of discrimination helped foster what is known in sociological lingo as an oppositional peer culture.

    What Explains Inequality?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • And I think it may contribute to the fragmentation and political polarization we see online, which are generally explained in sociological terms as an “echo chamber” effect or “groupthink.”

    Perils of pop philosophy 2009

  • I continued to write successful books, and in sociological controversy I saw my opponents confuted with the facts of the times that daily reared new buttresses to my intellectual position.

    Chapter 31 2010

  • … And I think it may contribute to the fragmentation and political polarization we see online, which are generally explained in sociological terms as an ‘echo chamber’ effect or ‘groupthink.’

    Perils of pop philosophy 2009

  • Smith and beyond, sociability was a major player in sociological explanations.

    Post-Secular Conviviality 2008

  • Since utopianism has become a positively valued concept within sociological, legal, and other fields, its implications for an understanding of

    About This Volume 2008

  • Music of the 18th C-- Classical and High Baroque -- gets lumped together because of a certain sociological function, performing as an anonymous signifier of sophistication and "high class" with no reference to musical specificities.

    The Long Goodbye Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • I guess they call it dysfunctionality in sociological-speak.

    Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage Linda 2007

  • Of course they were cautioned that the works were fiction, but that the action and the characters existed in sociological contexts.

    November 2006 2006

  • Of course they were cautioned that the works were fiction, but that the action and the characters existed in sociological contexts.

    L.A. MIX PROFILE: Professor William Edwards 2006

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