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the science of proving your common sense is mostly other people's
means The systematic study of human society — how groups, institutions, and patterns of behavior form, hold together, and fall apart.
from A hybrid coined in the 19th century by French thinker Auguste Comte, who stitched together the Latin 'socius' (companion, ally) and the Greek '-logia' (study, discourse). Purists grumbled about the Latin-Greek marriage, but the word stuck — half about your fellows, half about talking endlessly about them.
- coined word
- Auguste Comte named it in 1838
- suicide study
- Durkheim showed it follows social, not personal, patterns
- prison experiment
- Stanford guards turned cruel in six days
- hidden rules
- Breaking elevator etiquette reveals invisible social contracts
for instance
suicide — émile durkheim's 1897 study using statistical analysis to explain suicide rates across european societies
the sociological imagination — c. wright mills' 1959 concept connecting personal troubles to public issues in social analysis