1. 1社會學家(社會學者)

    A person whose job is sociology — studying how groups of people live together and why they behave the way they do. A sociologist does not usually treat one person at a time, the way a doctor or a does. They look at patterns: why more people in one neighbourhood leave school early, how families have changed in fifty years, why a spreads. Most work at universities, but some work for governments, companies, or research groups, doing surveys, interviews, and long observation. In everyday talk, people sometimes say 'sociologists say…' the way they say 'experts say…' — as a way to make a claim sound backed up, and it is worth asking which sociologists and what study. There is a small joke in English about sociologists explaining the obvious in words; you may meet that tone. Note the -ist: it names the person, not the subject.

組成sociology + -ist. The -ist ending names the person who does or studies the thing.

同家族的字

  • sociologythe subject; the -ist names the person who studies it
  • biologistsame -ist, person-who-studies ending
  • artistsame -ist ending, the person who does it
  • societyshares the Latin socius root, companion

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

sociologistnoun

  • 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.”

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