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sociology

[soh-see-ol-uh-jee, soh-shee-] / ˌsoʊ siˈɒl ə dʒi, ˌsoʊ ʃi- /
NOUN
anthropology
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STRONGEST


NOUN
social engineering
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NOUN
social studies
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Jessica Ringrose, a professor of sociology of gender and education at University College London, agrees.

From BBC Jun. 6, 2026

He is "a political veteran and perennial presidential prospect with name recognition few in his party can match," Gi-Wook Shin, a sociology professor at Stanford University, told AFP.

From Barron's Jun. 4, 2026

Mr. McCaffree is an associate professor of sociology at the University of North Texas and editor-in-chief of Theory and Society.

From The Wall Street Journal May 27, 2026

Karen Guzzo, PhD, is a professor of sociology and the director of the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina; she’s an expert on fertility preferences and fertility behaviors.

From Salon May 15, 2026

She attended high school in the suburbs of Seattle and was a second-year student studying sociology at the University of Washington when she first saw Shin in a YouTube video.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

In her catalog essay, Ms. Semmelhack does a good job of surveying the history of sneakers and their associated sociologies.

From New York Times Jul. 9, 2015

My curiosity, in the case of Prince Jones, opened a world of newspaper clippings, histories, and sociologies.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates




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