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s 1 o 1 c 3 i 1 o 1 l 1 o 1 g 2 y 4

9 letters · 15 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun the study and classification of human societies

originFrom French sociologie, coined by Auguste Comte in 1834, itself a combination of Latin socius (“companion, fellowship”) and the Greek suffix Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía), itself from Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos, “word, knowledge”), from socio- + -logy. Previous mentions of the field in English usually referred to it as social physics.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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