sociology

Perec used to do market research (like his protagonists in Things) and was friendly with the sociologist Henri Lefebvre.

I venture to hope that historian and sociologist may find valuable facts and suggestions in this book.

They would indeed suggest very interesting topics to the general historian or 'sociologist.'

He was a sociologist—a loose title which covers a great deal of inquisitive investigation into other people's affairs.

But it is the amateur sociologist alone who is able to give us a nightmare.

Hamsun the sociologist is not on a par with Hamsun the poet.