a. [ad. F. sociologique: see prec. 2 and SOCIOLOGY.] Of or pertaining to sociology; concerned or connected with the organization, condition or study of society. So Sociological a.; hence Sociologically adv. Sociologist, a student of sociology; one who is interested in social problems. Sociologize v., to make a study of social questions. Sociologue, a sociologist.
1861. Westm. Rev., 1 April, 312. The discovery and verification of *sociologic laws.
1883. A. C. Fletcher, in Century Mag., XXVI. June, 312/2. The antagonism felt toward the Indian seems to result … from his sociologic status which differs so widely from our own.
1885. F. Harrison, Choice of Bks., etc. (1886), 221. There is a beautiful but most elaborate parallel between organic development in sociologic and in biologic types.
1865. Mill, Comte, 75. The peculiarly complicated nature of *sociological studies.
1867. Lewes, Hist. Philos. (ed. 3), II. 594. It embraced cosmical, but excluded sociological speculations.
1881. Athenæum, March, 363. To throw some light on early Hebrew life by treating it *sociologically.
1884. Academy, 10 May, 326/3. Sociologically he is right in insisting on this distinction.
1843. Blackw. Mag., LIII. 399. Presuming these to be decided in a manner favourable to the project of our *Sociologist.
1870. Lowell, Study Wind., 59. But moralists, sociologists,… have slowly convinced me, that my beggarly sympathies were a sin against society.
1881. Stevenson, Virg. Puerisque, 242. We walk the streets to make romances and to *sociologise.
1892. Sat. Rev., 23 July, 106/2. The peasant who has found his *sociologue has to wait yet for his observer.
