0 someone who studies society and the way people live, or a subject connected with this, for example history or economics:
Lipset was one of the most influential social scientists of the past half-century.
Social scientists point to several reasons for the Midwest's slow movement toward diversity.
Medical experts and social scientists view infant mortality rates as key measures of a community's overall health and well-being.
Social scientists in the second half of the 20th century came to eschew biological explanations for human behaviour.
The task of the social scientist is to try and make some sense of any observable patterns and the motivations behind them.
