Sociologist
noun
noun ·5 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A scientist studying the field of sociology; a social scientist.
"The great sociologist Zygmunt Bauman argued that philo-Semitism and anti-Semitism both fall under “allosemitism”: literally Othering the Jew. He defined it not as resentment of what is different, which is xenophobia, but rather of what defies order and clear categories. In 1997, he wrote, “The Jew is ambivalence incarnate. And ambivalence is ambivalence mostly because it cannot be contemplated without ambivalent feeling: it is simultaneously attractive and repelling.”"
- 2 a social scientist who studies the institutions and development of human society wordnet
Example
More examples"The sociologist has a habit of scratching his back."
Etymology
From sociology + -ist.
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