How to Use sociological in a Sentence

sociological

adjective

• The sociological reasons may have faded as the years went by, but The Wheel played on.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2021
• But Tár isn’t quite in that camp-classic mode, thanks to Field’s quasi-sociological bent.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 9 Nov. 2022
• Godard’s work took on a more sociological turn in the late 1960s.
  — Angelina Rascouet, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2022
• This would seem to make the two men sociological soul mates, yet in the morning all goes haywire when Reda pockets Édouard’s iPad and iPhone.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2019
• Experts say no one is sure how the newcomers may fit in, how long most of them will stay, or what the sociological consequences might be.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Nov. 2022
• Because there is no reason to be there, only those with no place else to go end up there, and that is the sociological problem of homelessness.
  — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 28 May 2017
• The surveys and the sociological pictures left me cold.
  — Longreads, 20 July 2019
• The new act is, in many ways, a continuation of what came before: Right Now is sociological in tenor.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 11 July 2019
• The second is sociological, based on whether people trust the court to make fair and unbiased judgments.
  — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2021
• The movie isn’t a sociological study, but Dack has an analytical sense of why these young people cave in on themselves in this way.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2023
• But the underworld setting and hints of sociological awareness point to a variation on film noir and its moral labyrinths.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 7 July 2021
• All names here are pseudonyms, because the young adults in my sociological study were promised anonymity.
  — Eric Klinenberg, TIME, 9 Feb. 2024
• In the decades to come, these sociological consequences proved more deep and intractable than anyone had imagined.
  — Richard Cooke, The New Republic, 4 Jan. 2021
• My thumbnail sociological findings: The people in R.V.s tended to have a baseball cap and a spouse, while the people in tents tended to have a beard and a slightly unsettling stare.
  — New York Times, 17 July 2019
• They're backed up by a decade of sociological research.
  — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 29 Jan. 2020
• But the spirit of the show is exploratory, not sociological.
  — Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2021
• In the classroom, the students discussed the role of music in society and the design of sociological research studies.
  — Thom Duffy, Billboard, 29 June 2018
• The study didn’t look into what events and societal changes might have influenced this trend, but the researchers still had some sociological insights.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 15 Apr. 2024
• Some of the factors leading to the swift consensus were sociological.
  — Richard Panek, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
• Some of the factors leading to the swift consensus were sociological.
  — Richard Panek, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
• For now, indoor spaces have to keep masks as a rule simply for sociological reasons.
  — Zeynep Tufekci, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2021
• What this suggests is that the real solution will have to be sociological.
  — Conor Dougherty, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2020
• With the arguable exception of Nick, none of the supporting characters gets enough love from the film to generate the kind of group sociological portrait Greed seems to intend.
  — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2019
• For Black sitcoms, the stakes for sociological insight were higher, as the notion of the Black family unit was—and is—somewhat contested.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022
• Cromwell’s revival casts Black actors as the Lomans, adding a new sociological layer to Willy’s travails.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2022
• The authors draw on a large body of sociological research to illustrate the many ways that information can be concealed.
  — Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 20 May 2024
• Sherman turns out to be innocent of the charge—but the police hunt him down and kill him nonetheless, and this murder, not Helen’s sociological positing of gang violence, turns out to be the source of the legend.
  — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2021
• Still, that kind of data is a sociological treasure trove.
  — Amrita Khalid, Quartz, 17 Dec. 2019
• And her eldest son took an almost sociological approach, explaining how her life had unfolded within a larger culture shaped by the currents of the pre- and postwar decades.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2024
• Nevertheless, this basic sociological division framed party politics from the New Deal to the end of the century.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 19 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024