"pseudosociology" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1988 May 6, Robert McClory, “The Divine Right”, in Chicago Reader",
          "text": "As a result, concern for the salvation of souls has been replaced by pseudosociology, pop psychology, and humanist theology.",
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          "ref": "2009, Michael Ford, Wounded Prophet: A Portrait of Henri J.M. Nouwen, page 8",
          "text": "Real theological thinking was thinking with the mind of Christ, not engaging in what he termed pseudopsychology, pseudosociology, and pseudo-social work.",
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          "text": "In this way, the sociological view appropriate to the Marxist theory of law became a pseudosociology […]",
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