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sociology

 noun
     
Related topics: Sociology
so‧ci‧ol‧o‧gy [uncountable]
the scientific study of societies and the behaviour of people in groups
—sociologist noun [countable]
—sociological adjective:
a sociological study
—sociologically adverb
[↪ anthropology, ethnology, social science]
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