societologyn.
/səˌsʌɪəˈtɒlədʒi/, U.S. /səˌsaɪəˈtɑlədʒi/ U.S. Now rare.
The study of human society; sociology.Particularly associated with the U.S. sociologist William Graham Sumner (1840–1910) (see quots. 1895 and 1925).
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society > society and the community > study of society > [noun]
social sciencea1770
sociology1842
social studies1853
humanics1860
societology1883
human ecology1907
macrosociology1941
1883 Weekly Hawk-eye (Burlington, Iowa) 22 Feb. 3/4 (advt.) The Hawkeye..forming the greatest and most overwhelmingly monstrous mammoth mastodon of newspaper enterprise on the earth containing representatives of politicology, marketology, telegraphology, newsology, live ad.-ology, societology, funology and bi-gology.
1895 Catal. Yale Univ. 1895–6 62 The Science of Society..Professor Sumner. In connection with this is a course of lectures on Systematic Sociology (Societology). This course is strictly academical..and does not take up topics popularly classed under ‘social science’.
1924 C. M. Case Outl. Introd. Sociol. p. xxxvi It [sc. sociology] probably should be, and more than probably will not be, known as ‘societology’.
1925 Jrnl. Social Forces 3 625/2 To distinguish such scientific procedure from the sentimental and irrational, with which in the minds of most people the term ‘sociology’ is associated, Sumner coined the word ‘societology’, which, however, has never won general acceptance.
1935 tr. E. Barone in R. Marchionatti Early Math. Econ. (2004) IV. lix. 246 The most inspired portions of Pareto's Manuel will be the societology of Chapters II and lX.
1948 Man 48 93/1 The experiences of ‘frontier society’, in temperate and in tropical climates; a topic to which recent American sociology—or should one say ‘societology’?—has naturally devoted exceptional attention.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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