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sociologist

sociologist

38 3.9
A person who studies how people live and behave in groups
  • noun
  • /ˌsoʊsiˈɑːlədʒɪst/
  • Specialized
translation icon : sociólogo
  • Sociologists say the new working woman is a phenomenon of our time.
  • anthropologists and sociologists
  • historians and sociologists
  • psychologists and sociologists

So the the concept of a third place comes from this sociologist Ray Something, Ray Aldenburg.

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Examples

  • The sociologist conducted a study to better understand the effects of social media on communication.

  • They see their kids growing up to be accountants, solicitors, sociologists, and they wonder, is it all worth it?

  • So I'm a a sociologist, I study people.

  • - Our sociologist here is worried about the homeless.

  • Our next guest once offered her fellow sociologists the following advice.

  • OK, sociologists do the same thing for organizations.

  • Well, a sociologist, Matthew Desmond, argues in his new book, Poverty by America, It's our fault.

  • Robin DiAngelo is a sociologist, and she's author of this book.

  • Sociologists agree that Birdie is a phenomenon.

  • The Bureaucracy Approach was developed in the early 1900s by the German sociologist M. Weber.

    Academic text (2011)

Synonyms

social scientist
vssociologist
12 3.7

A person who studies how people live and interact in society

focuses on one scientific discipline studying social behavior and institutions

How Biological

geneticist
24 6.3
biologist
111 3.5
sociobiologist
  • Specialized
1 9.0
sociologist
  • Specialized
38 3.9

Surface Forms

sociologist singular
sociologists plural

Morphology

sociologist = sociology (transparent) = sociology + ist

Formed by adding the agentive suffix '-ist' to the noun 'sociology', so the meaning 'person who studies sociology' is directly derivable.

Etymology

Sociologist comes from the root soci-, from an old Latin word socius meaning 'companion', and the ending -logist, like in biologist, meaning 'one who studies'. So a sociologist studies how people live and behave together in groups and society.