Sociologist
[,səʊsɪ'ɒlədʒɪst] or [,sosɪ'ɑlədʒɪst]
Definition
(noun.) a social scientist who studies the institutions and development of human society.
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Definition
(n.) One who treats of, or devotes himself to, the study of sociology.
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Examples
- Only the elderly sociologist, whose mental fibre was so tough as to be insentient, seemed to be thoroughly happy. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Immediately Gudrun saw the famous sociologist as a flat bottle, containing tabloids of compressed liberty. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But the propaganda continues and the philosophy spreads, penetrating reform groups, social workers, historians, and sociologists. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- For where in the report is any thorough discussion by sociologists of the relations of business and marriage to vice? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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