sociopolitical

adjective

so·​cio·​po·​lit·​i·​cal ˌsō-sē-ō-pə-ˈli-ti-kəl How to pronounce sociopolitical (audio)
ˌsō-shē-
: of, relating to, or involving a combination of social and political factors

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The award-winning visual artist, composer and musician has flipped white supremacy on its head with works that tackle the legacy of enslavement and its connection to the prison-industrial complex and its connection to today’s sociopolitical climate. Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 3 July 2025 The director was a staunch defender of imprinting Brazil’s diversity — cultural, ethnic and sociopolitical — on screen, and would come to direct 17 features in his career, as well as producing dozens more films, plays and musicals before his passing. Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 19 May 2025 Romania has also been a hotbed of sociopolitical protests. Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025 Amid the broader sociopolitical tensions and rising revolutionary fervor, the Group synthesized the concerns of a vast swathe of artists by interpreting the abstraction of Western modernism through aesthetics drawn from Islamic and Mesopotamian cultures into various styles. Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for sociopolitical

Word History

First Known Use

1835, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of sociopolitical was in 1835

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“Sociopolitical.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sociopolitical. Accessed 27 Jul. 2025.

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