antisociologist

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noun

One who opposes or subverts the usual beliefs or conventions of sociology.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

nounantisociologist (plural antisociologists)

plural antisociologists

  1. One who opposes or subverts the usual beliefs or conventions of sociology.

    He is a Deweyan sociologist and an anti-Deweyan antisociologist.

    2002, Philip Selznick, Robert A. Kagan, Martin Krygier, Legality and Community, page 370
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    Latour is a rather peculiar sociologist—one might even call him an antisociologist—because he contends that there is no such thing as society or the social, […]

    2018, David J. Alworth, Site Reading: Fiction, Art, Social Form, page 3

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