sociolinguistics vs linguistics

sociolinguistics and linguistics both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sociolinguistics	Yes	No	No	No
linguistics	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, linguistics is a hypernym of sociolinguistics; that is, linguistics is a word with a broader meaning than sociolinguistics:

sociolinguistics: the study of language in relation to its sociocultural context
linguistics: the scientific study of language

sociolinguistics (noun)	linguistics (noun)
the study of language in relation to its sociocultural context	the scientific study of language
	the humanistic study of language and literature