Etymology

metasociology

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Today it means: The study of sociology itself Full definition →

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The story

From meta- + sociology. The academic journal The Sociology of Religion attributes its origin to Paul Hanly Furfey, who coined it in his 1953 book The Scope and Method of Sociology (xi).

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