# sociology

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˌsəʊsiːˈɒləd͡ʒiː/ · frequency rank #9,960

## Definitions
1. A social science that studies society, human social interaction, patterns of social relationships, and the interactions of culture. Through both theory and applied research, it engages subject matters across a range of microanalysis, mesoanalysis, and macroanalysis.

## Etymology
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”), from socio- + -logy.
Previous mentions of the field in English usually referred to it as social physics.

## Common misspellings (13)
`osciology`, `scoiology`, `socciology`, `sociloogy`, `sociolgoy`, `sociollogy`, `sociologgy`, `sociologyy`, `socioloyg`, `socioolgy`, `socoilogy`, `soicology`, `ssociology`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/sociology