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The study of how logical systems emerge from and are shaped by social processes—how communities decide what counts as reasonable, how logical norms vary across cultures and eras, and how logic is used as a tool of social power. Logic is often presented as universal and timeless, but the sociology reveals that different societies have different logics, that logical systems change over time, and that claims to logicality are often claims to authority. The sociology of logic examines how logical training socializes people into particular ways of thinking, how logical arguments function in social contexts (persuasion, status, exclusion), and how logic can be used to dismiss other ways of knowing (indigenous logic, feminine logic, emotional intelligence). Logic is social all the way down—which doesn't make it less useful, just less absolute.
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