How to Use sociological in a Sentence

sociological

adjective
  • But the impulse behind these scenes feels less comedic than sociological.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
  • Her book, now on sale, blends light moments and sociological facts, the sweet spot between a funny blog post and a term paper.
    — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2025
  • For now, indoor spaces have to keep masks as a rule simply for sociological reasons.
    — Zeynep Tufekci, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 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
  • The sociological reasons may have faded as the years went by, but The Wheel played on.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2021
  • All names here are pseudonyms, because the young adults in my sociological study were promised anonymity.
    — Eric Klinenberg, TIME, 9 Feb. 2024
  • And then there is the sociological point that de Broglie was quite isolated in Paris.
    — Tim Folger, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • What this suggests is that the real solution will have to be sociological.
    — Conor Dougherty, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2020
  • 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
  • Godard’s work took on a more sociological turn in the late 1960s.
    — Angelina Rascouet, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • There was a vast number of people who would never agree to sit down and discuss their true feelings in the form of a sociological interview.
    — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2025
  • But Woodstock was more of a sociological event than just a music festival.
    — Valentina Valentini, Billboard, 17 Aug. 2017
  • But people already recognized this fly in the sociological ointment at the time.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Treating that date like a comedic, sociological event is a sign of what has been called our current Great Corruption.
    — Armond White, National Review, 1 Jan. 2025
  • 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, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Post-lockdown, some of Americans’ habits have stuck for both health and sociological reasons.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2024
  • That is a fancy sociological phrase that translates simply to the need to understand how others perceive you.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • Come for the way this film twists a disaster-movie premise into sociological commentary while still bringing the weirdness.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • Crenshaw may have coined a name for the feminist sociological theory, but her work built upon a rich history of ideas.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 29 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • There’s also the sociological feel of what the professors are like together.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Here, Brooks takes decades’ worth of sociological work on cultural capital and flattens those ideas with a panini press.
    — Osita Nwanevu, Slate Magazine, 13 July 2017
  • As an adult, Pant was moved to write about the sociological, economic and gender aspects of the Swasthani practice.
    — Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, The Conversation, 24 Mar. 2026

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