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SOCIAL SCIENTIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does social scientist mean? 

SOCIAL SCIENTIST (noun)
  The noun SOCIAL SCIENTIST has 1 sense:

1. someone expert in the study of human society and its personal relationshipsplay

  Familiarity information: SOCIAL SCIENTIST used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SOCIAL SCIENTIST (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("social scientist" is a kind of...):

scientist (a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "social scientist"):

anthropologist (a social scientist who specializes in anthropology)

economic expert; economist (an expert in the science of economics)

penologist (a person who studies the theory and practice of prison management)

political scientist (a social scientist specializing in the study of government)

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

Derivation:

social science (the branch of science that studies society and the relationships of individual within a society)


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