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This video describes the difference between sociolinguistics and the sociology of language lies in their focus and approach to the relationship between language and society. Though both fields are concerned with language and its social functions, they address different aspects of this relationship:

Sociolinguistics:
Focus: Sociolinguistics studies how social factors (like class, gender, age, ethnicity, and region) influence language use and how language varies across different social contexts.
Key Questions: How do social factors affect language? What are the features of dialects, sociolects, and registers? How does language change in different social settings?
Approach: Bottom-up, examining the way language patterns emerge in everyday use, and how linguistic variations reflect social structures and identities.
Examples of Topics: Regional dialects, social dialects (sociolects), code-switching, language variation, language attitudes, and speech communities.
Sociology of Language:
Focus: The sociology of language looks at societal structures and how they influence language policies, language choices, and the role of language in power dynamics, institutions, and national identity.
Key Questions: What is the role of language in society? How does language contribute to social stratification and power relations? How do societies maintain or promote specific languages?
Approach: Top-down, often dealing with macro-level issues such as language policy, multilingualism, language planning, language and identity, and language shift.
Examples of Topics: Language policy in education, official languages, language and nationalism, the dominance of certain languages over others, and language rights.