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Vinony

metasociology

noun

  1. the study of the nature and methodology of sociology
  2. a sociological model, framework, or study which is universal in scope
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: 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).

  1. The study of sociology itself