Psychiatry and Psychology

Sociology

A social science dealing with group relationships, patterns of collective behavior, and social organization.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

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A social science dealing with group relationships, patterns of collective behavior, and social organization.

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Synonyms

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  • General Social Development and Population

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Aspects Covered

12 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

specialty; use SOCIOLOGICAL FACTORS or specifics treed under it for sociological characteristics and phenomena; /methods: probably SOCIOMETRIC TECHNIQUES

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History Note

RELIGION AND SOCIOLOGY was heading 1963-65

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  1. F04.096w.879w.757w
  2. I01w.880w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Sociology. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D012961. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D012961
  2. Sociology. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociology
  3. Sociology. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21201