סוציולוגיה

Ultimately from 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”).

Cognate with Russian социология (sociologija), Polish socjologia and other Slavic synonyms.

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סוֹצִיוֹלוֹגִיָה • (sotsyológya) f

1. sociology (a social science that studies society, human social interaction, patterns of social relationships, and the interactions of culture)