social scientist

Noun

Meaning

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

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Lewis has written that "man makes history." Althusser unleashes a pamphlet at him maintaining that such is not the case: "Ce sont les masses qui font I'histoire." I challenge anyone to find a social scientist outside the Marxist camp who can seriously pose a problem of this type. Norberto Bobbio

I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator. Rachel Cusk

Not only is it ridiculous to call men who have sex with men “straight”, she offends my sensibilities as a social scientist. Source: Internet

Ellwood notes that "Campbell was not really a social scientist, and those in the latter camp could tell" and records a concern about Campbell's "oversimpification of historical matters and tendency to make myth mean whatever he wanted it to mean". Source: Internet

Schutz's basic argument was that sociology cannot ground itself and that epistemology was not a luxury but a necessity for the social scientist. Source: Internet

That which makes such a description different from the "naive" subjective descriptions of the man in the street, or those of the traditional, positivist social scientist, is the utilization of phenomenological methods. Source: Internet

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