How to Use sociology in a Sentence

sociology

noun

• In sociology, this is called the Principle of Least Interest: The one who cares the least always has the most power.
  — Madeline Ashby, WIRED, 17 July 2023
• The general sociology of friendship still applies to the alien world that is the office.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 14 May 2022
• For 20-year-old sociology major Yvonne Welsh, the upcoming election was at the heart of her reason for marching.
  — Ivy Scott, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2022
• Marquelle Ogletree, a Black junior sociology major, was among the students who showed up to hear Sasse.
  — Nina Burleigh, The New Republic, 10 Jan. 2023
• The deaths in Chicago, by contrast, become events of sociology.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 25 May 2022
• The removal of sociology as a core course option was first proposed in November.
  — Hannah Natanson, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
• The result is a kind of firsthand sociology, in which moviegoing is treated as an experience, of which the movie itself is only a part.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
• And, like many college freshmen, he got lost looking for one of his classes, a 300-student sociology lecture.
  — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 31 Aug. 2022
• She was offered places at York and Warwick, to do sociology and psychology, but decided to look for a job at home instead.
  — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
• At the time, Kwame was studying sociology with a concentration in media and art at Morehouse College in Atlanta.
  — Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 5 Feb. 2024
• Collins returned to Brandeis for her Ph.D. in sociology.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 23 Oct. 2023
• This is the subject of recent work by Laura Savolainen, a doctoral student in sociology at the University of Helsinki.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2023
• Hosted by Phoebe Judge, the show takes a deep dive into a broad range of criminal behavior, including the psychology and sociology behind the crime.
  — Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 16 Aug. 2022
• The son of two sociology professors, Tsushima grew unnerved by Willis Law’s untrammeled prowess in court.
  — Mya Frazier, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
• Hannah went to the University of Georgia and graduated in 2008 with a B.A. in sociology.
  — Hannah Baker, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Dec. 2022
• Those who didn’t would get a zero, sociology teacher Benjie Arnold told his class, according to a federal lawsuit Oliver filed against him.
  — Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2022
• The booklet, which became an early classic of sociology, showed that employment provides much more than an income.
  — Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2022
• For all the biography, politics and sociology, this is also a baseball book.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2022
• How did your sociology background influence the story, to ensure a level of empathy?
  — Holly Jones, Variety, 12 Sep. 2022
• Juliet Schor, professor of sociology at Boston College and the trial’s lead researcher, said that employees did not report an increase in the intensity of their work.
  — Anna Cooban, CNN, 30 Nov. 2022
• Scott Schieman is a professor of sociology and Canada research chair at the University of Toronto.
  — Scott Schieman, Quartz, 1 Dec. 2022
• But readers interested in the sociology or epidemiology of plagues, or the science of vaccines, should look elsewhere.
  — Julia M. Klein, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023
• There’s a peculiar literary sociology to not writing in our time.
  — Srikanth Reddy, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2022
• Carole Barnes was a sociology professor at the time, and researched the route’s ridership and effectiveness, with the help of an economics professor, students and a federal grant.
  — Stephen Hobbs, Sacramento Bee, 26 Feb. 2024
• Research on eviction by Matthew Desmond, a professor of sociology at Princeton University, and others has shown the presence of children increases renters' risk of eviction.
  — Anna Bahney, CNN, 17 June 2022
• His father, also named Brendan, was a union leader and a sociology professor at New York University.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
• Xavier, a former linebacker at Florida, converted from being a Baptist to a Muslim in college after taking a sociology class.
  — Alexis Cubit, The Courier-Journal, 18 Aug. 2022
• Robert Carini, associate professor of sociology at the University of Louisville, led a study about cat coat colors and perceptions that was peer-reviewed and published in September 2020.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2022
• Ofer Sharone, a professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who researches career transitions and trends, sums it up in one word: stigma.
  — Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2024
• Arévalo, who has a sociology degree, has served as vice minister of foreign affairs and ambassador to Spain, and spent years doing work for the organization Interpeace.
  — Leila Miller, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024