According to the definition set above, the word micrology comes from micros (small) and logos (treat or speech). It refers to the science that uses a microscope to study the smallest or minimal things existing in nature. To say of this definition, the word also applies to denominate a short and concise mode of speech, besides that disparagingly it serves to describe a frivolous discourse. If a micrology concerns to the study of small things of nature with the aid of a microscope, what would be the instrument to study the little things of life in society? What tool would be used by a social micrology? What shall be its microscope? To say of a possible answer, if one considers that the social is something that is significantly constructed, language would come to be such an instrument through which a social micrology would endorse to study the minimal but not the less significant things of society. However, while it gives sense to the social -being that it is what composes its minimal parts-, language would construct such an instrument without being canceled or dissolved as an object of study. Continue reading →