sociologist

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so·ci·ol·o·gy

(sō′sē-ŏl′ə-jē, -shē-)

1. The study of human social behavior, especially the study of the origins, organization, institutions, and development of human society.

2. Analysis of a social institution or societal segment as a self-contained entity or in relation to society as a whole.

[French sociologie : socio-, socio- + -logie, study (from Greek -logiā; see -logy).]

so′ci·o·log′ic (-ə-lŏj′ĭk), so′ci·o·log′i·cal (-ĭ-kəl) adj.

so′ci·o·log′i·cal·ly adv.

so′ci·ol′o·gist n.

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Noun

sociologist - a social scientist who studies the institutions and development of human society

demographer, demographist, population scientist - a scientist who studies the growth and density of populations and their vital statistics

psephologist - a sociologist who studies election trends

social scientist - someone expert in the study of human society and its personal relationships

Translations

sociolog

sociologistesociologue

sociolog

sociologo

sociologist

[ˌsəʊsɪˈɒlədʒɪst] N → sociólogo/a m/f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

sociologist

[ˌsəʊsiˈɒlədʒɪst] n → sociologue mf

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

sociologist

n → Soziologe m, → Soziologin f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

sociologist

[ˌsəʊsɪˈɒlədʒɪst] n → sociologo/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

sociologist

n. sociólogo-a, especialista en sociología.

English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

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Nietzsche as a sociologist aims at an aristocratic arrangement of society.

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"Look at me, officer," protested the indignant sociologist. "Am I drunk?"

"EMINENT SOCIOLOGIST JAGGED AND JUGGED," was the first head-line he read, on the front page, accompanied by a large portrait of himself.

"But I do not understand," objected the perplexed sociologist. "Without warning I was attacked by this man; and badly beaten.

Occasionally, and very carefully, the facetious sociologist administered a real bruising blow.

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From acting outraged feelings, Freddie Drummond, in the role of his other self, came to experience genuine outrage, and it was only when he returned to the classic atmosphere of the university that he was able, sanely and conservatively, to generalize upon his underworld experiences and put them down on paper as a trained sociologist should.

Freddie Drummond sat in the auto, quite composed, alongside Catherine Van Vorst; but looking out of Freddie Drummond's eyes was Bill Totts, and somewhere behind those eyes, battling for the control of their mutual body, were Freddie Drummond the sane and conservative sociologist, and Bill Totts, the class-conscious and bellicose union working man.

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Capitalism was adjudged by the sociologists of the time to be the culmination of bourgeois rule, the ripened fruit of the bourgeois revolution.

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It may, if a leader of genius appear, become the first real corps of practical sociologists, which will substitute facts for the present hotch-potch of theories.

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23-39 in Joyce Miller Iutcovitch and Mark Iutcovich, eds., The Sociologist as Consultant.

What do 'we' know that 'they' don't? Sociologists' versus nonsociologists' knowledge

The unprecedented size and scope of the new study make its findings "very exciting," remarks sociologist Linda J.

In sickness and in death: spouses' ills imperil partners' survival

Rather, the point is, just as mathematics teaches the engineering student how to reason through and approach the analysis in a formal and logical way, so too does sociological theory train the sociologist to build a reasoned argument about social phenomena in a logically consistent, thorough, insightful, and penetrating manner.