• Sociobabble

    Origin

    - + babble.

    Full definition of sociobabble

    Noun

    sociobabble

    (uncountable)
    1. The jargon used by sociologists.
      • 1987, George Charles Roche, A world without heroes: the modern tragedyThis urge to be "scientific" — demonstrating again the divine power of that word — is creating a whole new language paralleling English: sociobabble.
      • 1991, Martin Oppenheimer, Radical Sociologists (page 54)Although he seemed less introspective than the rest and his run-on sociobabble was a bit more aimless, he conveyed the same aura of perpetual distraction.
      • 2005, Adrian Furnham, The People Business: Psychological Reflections on Management (page 33)For those with a Pollyanna view of the world, gift-giving is (if you can take the sociobabble) the “feminized ideology of love”, motivated by emotions of “nurturant-dependence”.
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