Interdisciplinary subfields of sociology

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Sociolinguistics is the descriptive and scientific study of how language is shaped by and used differently within any given society. The field largely looks at how a language varies between distinct social groups and under the influence of assorted cultural norms, expectations, and contexts, including how that variation plays a role in language change. Sociolinguistics combines the older field of dialectology with the social sciences in order to identify regional dialects, sociolects, ethnolects, and other sub-varieties and styles within a language.

a branch of psychology that combines concepts from psychology and sociology and that focuses on social influence on human behavior

thumb|350x350px|Three women in the pillory, China, 1875 Criminology (from Latin , 'accusation', and Ancient Greek , -logia, from λόγος logos, 'word, reason') is the interdisciplinary study of crime and deviant behaviour. Criminology is a multidisciplinary field in both the behavioural and social sciences, which draws primarily upon the research of sociologists, political scientists, economists, legal sociologists, psychologists, philosophers, psychiatrists, social workers, biologists, social anthropologists, scholars of law and jurisprudence, as well as the processes that define administration

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value-based analysis of social phenomena

interdisciplinary field about the study of systems

branch of human geography

Victimology is the study of victimization, including the psychological effects on victims, the relationship between victims and offenders, the interactions between victims and the criminal justice system—that is, the police and courts, and corrections officials—and the connections between victims and other social groups and institutions, such as the media, businesses, and social movements.

thumb|right|upright=1.35 |Having called conclusions about human-caused climate change "alarmist", contrary to the [[scientific consensus on climate change, Republican Senator Jim Inhofe displayed a snowball—in winter—as evidence the globe was not warming, in a year that was found to be Earth's warmest to date. The director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies distinguished local weather in a single location in a single week from global climate change.]] Within the sociology of knowledge, agnotology (formerly agnatology) is the study of deliberate, culturally cultivated ignorance or do

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branch of sociology focusing on how societies develop through history

academic study

alt=David - The Death of Socrates|thumb|Socrates about to take the poison cup (detail from The Death of Socrates) Suicidology is the scientific study of suicidal behaviour, the causes of suicidality and suicide prevention. Every year, more than 720,000 people die by suicide in the world, setting its mortality rate at about 9/100,000. Suicidologists believe that suicide is largely preventable with the right actions, knowledge about suicide, and a change in society's view of suicide to make it more acceptable to talk about suicide. Suicidology draws from many fields of social science, primarily

academic discipline

subfield between informatics and sociology

field of study in analytic philosophy

study of materials and energy flows between nature and society

multi-disciplinary field

the dissemination of information and the implementation of communication practices that are related to the environment

Sociocybernetics is an interdisciplinary science between sociology and general systems theory and cybernetics. The International Sociological Association has a specialist research committee in the area – RC51 – which publishes the (electronic) Journal of Sociocybernetics.

area of sociology focused on social actions

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sub-discipline of sociology which deals with organizations

field of scholarship