- 1n/ˌsoʊʃəl ˈsaɪəntɪst/ · /ˌsəʊʃəl ˈsaɪəntɪst/社會科學家
Someone whose job is to study people and the way they live together, using careful methods and evidence. They work in subjects such as psychology, economics, sociology and political science.
scientist 讓人想到實驗室、試管、顯微鏡。social scientist 把同一套做法搬到「人」身上。他研究的不是化學反應，是人怎麼做決定、怎麼相處、怎麼組成一個社會。他一樣要收資料、跑統計、驗證假設。心理學、經濟學、社會學、政治學的研究者都算在裡面。要注意它跟 social worker 差很遠：social worker 是去幫助有困難的人，social scientist 是去研究人的行為。它是一個職業名稱，所以常跟大學、研究、報告一起出現。
示範例句 · Example
A social scientist came to our school to talk about why people follow crowds.
中文翻譯一位社會科學家來我們學校談人們為什麼跟著人群走。
The word takes the ordinary idea of a scientist and moves it off things and onto people. A social scientist still collects data, tests an idea and looks for patterns, but the material is how people decide, spend, vote, learn and live beside each other. It says what someone does for a living, so it usually appears with a university, a study or a report.
常見搭配
a team of social scientists
一組社會科學研究團隊
a group of researchers working together on one study
A team of social scientists followed the same families for ten years.
social scientists argue that
社會科學家主張……
used to introduce what researchers in the field claim
Social scientists argue that small rewards work better than big ones.
work as a social scientist
從事社會科學研究工作
to have this as your job
After her doctorate she worked as a social scientist for the government.
a leading social scientist
頂尖的社會科學家
one of the best-known researchers in the field
The talk was given by a leading social scientist from Taipei.
用法接近
economistpsychologistanthropologistpolitical scientist
core核心畫面
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用法接近
economistpsychologistanthropologistpolitical scientist
Think of the ordinary picture of a scientist: someone in a lab, measuring, counting, testing an idea to see whether it survives. Now take that person out of the lab and put them on a bus, in a classroom, or in front of ten thousand survey answers. The method does not change — collect, count, test — but the material is people: how they decide, spend, vote and live next to each other. A social scientist is that person.
From the word’s history
The word is built from social science plus the ending -ist, which marks the person who does something, as in artist and pianist.
這個字是 social science 加上字尾 -ist 組成的，-ist 在英文裡標示「做這件事的人」，像 artist、pianist。所以字面就是「做社會科學的人」，職業的意思是拼出來的，不需要另外記。
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