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Sociologist   /sˌoʊsiˈɑlədʒɪst/   Listen
Sociologist

noun
1.
A social scientist who studies the institutions and development of human society.






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"Sociologist" Quotes from Famous Books



... put in Maude Schofield, "I might express the thought this way—the sociologist has had his day; now it is the biologist, ...
— The War Terror • Arthur B. Reeve

... agreed. "So we aren't a monarchy. We're a tyranny." His face had begun by expressing amusement, but that fell off. He added, "As a young sociologist, I never expected to wind up a ...
— Border, Breed Nor Birth • Dallas McCord Reynolds

... factors are constantly in action, there is a close connection between all the sciences. Although social life is not so closely similar to animal life as was thought previously, the principles of biology are important to the sociologist because biology is the science of all life. Psychology is important because it is the science of ...
— Society - Its Origin and Development • Henry Kalloch Rowe

... A rural sociologist is not primarily interested in the technique of agriculture. He conceives agriculture and country life as Arthur Young and Cobbett did, as a means to an end, the sound basis, the touchstone of a healthy State. I was helped ...
— The Foundations of Japan • J.W. Robertson Scott

... don't think she is going to Career very long, either. I believe she is in love with the man who taught her some of the ologies she is so interested in. He is awfully nice, but not very practical. He is a psychological sociologist or a sociological psychologist, I don't know which, but it doesn't matter. If Jess marries him she will run ...
— Kitty Canary • Kate Langley Bosher

... all that is in man comes from his environment or from his heredity, the only way in which the race of men can be advanced is by improving their environment or by bettering their heredity. The first of these is the province of the sociologist; the second that of the eugenist. The sociologist has for some time been giving his careful attention to the improvement of the environment. In every large city, a man must build for himself a house fit to ...
— The Meaning of Evolution • Samuel Christian Schmucker

... smiled at Mrs. Fairford's fears for Ralph's domestic peace. He thought Undine too clear-headed to forfeit the advantages of her marriage; but it now struck him that she might have had a glimpse of larger opportunities. Bowen, at the thought, felt the pang of the sociologist over the individual havoc wrought by every social readjustment: it had so long been clear to him that poor Ralph was a survival, and destined, as such, to go down in any ...
— The Custom of the Country • Edith Wharton



Words linked to "Sociologist" :   demographist, sociology, Emile Durkheim, psephologist, Parsons, Francois Marie Charles Fourier, Merton, David Riesman, Fourier, social scientist, Spencer, Webb, David Riesman Jr., Vilfredo Pareto, Pareto, Riesman, demographer, Sidney Webb, Durkheim, Sumner, weber, First Baron Passfield, Robert Merton, William Graham Sumner, population scientist, Charles Fourier, Max Weber, Herbert Spencer, Sidney James Webb, Robert King Merton, Talcott Parsons



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