Sociology

Sociology studies human interactions in groups. Translation is a means of human interactions. Therefore, it is only logical that translation activities have always been discussed as part of social interactions. This entry overviews socially informed discussions of translation before the discipline of Translation Studies was established, then within its linguistic and cultural turns. Finally, the three major models of sociologically informed translation research are shown – the macrosociological, the microsociological and the approach bridging the two.