Wiktionary
n. A scientist who specializes in a social science such as psychology, economics, or political science.
WordNet
n. someone expert in the study of human society and its personal relationships
Wikipedia
Social Scientist is a New Delhi-based journal published by the Indian School of Social Sciences and Tulika Books in the areas of social sciences and humanities. The journal has been running since 1972 and is edited by the JNU social scientist Prabhat Patnaik. The Managing Editor is Rajendra Prasad. The journal is indexed in the International Bibliography of Social Sciences and the Bibliography of Asian Studies.
The journal is said to have a Marxist orientation, dominated by the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
Usage examples of "social scientist".
Just as natural science is collective, industrialized research, unlike the individualized craft production of the social scientist, so the graduate science student benefits from the shared labour of an open lab, squabbling over who dirtied the glassware, who has booked the next session on the centrifuge or used the last of the pipette tips in an atmosphere where hierarchy becomes nearly but not quite submerged.
But people, ah- They are so complex and so different one from another that a Social Scientist never knows all there is to know or even a good part of what there is to know.
I must explain because you are primarily a social scientist and will understand-perhaps better than we ourselves.
She claims she's some kind of outcast and dilettante social scientist, excusing her not knowing anything helpful.
It all depends what you mean by think, says well-known philosopher and social scientist, Johnathan Goodmay, in an article in this month’.
I must explain because you are primarily a social scientist and will understand - perhaps better than we ourselves.
Even a social scientist ought to have better powers of observation than that!
That was one of the reasons why he and the stocky, phlegmatic social scientist made such a good team, he thought.
The solution could have been reached immediately, if the questioners had but remembered that Hari Seldon was a social scientist not a physical scientist and adjusted their thought processes accordingly.
The other common one is to view the problem through the eyes of a social scientist or an anthropologist.