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A person who specializes in the study of people living in groups.

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  • The sociologist enjoyed going to remote villages and observing the people and their activities.
  • The surveys were scheduled to be destroyed until someone called sociologist and future Chancellor William Sewell.
  • When I pressed him for a theory, he half-jokingly suggested I call a sociologist at a university like UC Berkeley.
  • "It was interesting to see Mr. Ghalibaf become more reformist than the reformists themselves," recalls sociologist Hamidreza Jalaeipour.
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