What Is a Sociologist?

A sociologist is a way of observing and analyzing society. He is a researcher who does some research to understand and explain the society in which he lives, or other societies. This requires him to conduct years of sociological research. A sociologist is a profession, as described by Bourdieu, Passeron et Chamboredon, who describes, thinks about society, and does thinking and analysis.

Sociologist

Sociologists refer to scholars, experts, or professionals with certain achievements or social prestige in the field of sociology. Its research is mainly based on the overall interests and relationships of society.

Sociology appeared in the 19th century as a response to the prominent contradictions of modernity. The paradox of modernity is that the world becomes smaller and smaller and becomes a whole, but the personal world experience becomes more and more divided and scattered. Sociologists not only want to understand what brings together social groups, but also to understand the development process of social disintegration, so as to make "corrections". (This view is mainly in sociology

Father of Sociology-

Sociologists generally study the following topics:

Group organization: family-community-rural-town-town-city-tribe-ethnic-group-culture ..

Groups and organizations

Fei Xiaotong (1910-2005) a famous sociologist, anthropologist and social activist, an outstanding leader of the China Democracy League, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the Seventh and Eighth National People's Congress, Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Vice Chairman of the Sixth National Committee and Honorary Chairman of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League.

In November 1910, Fei Xiaotong was born in a family that valued school education in Wujiang, Jiangsu. At the age of 4, he entered the Mongolian nursing home founded by his mother and began to receive formal education.

In 1928, Fei Xiaotong entered Soochow University and completed two years of pre-medical studies. Due to the influence of the revolutionary ideas at that time, he decided not to study medicine, but to study social science.

He entered Peking University in 1930 and entered the Department of Sociology of Yanjing University. After graduating in 1933, he was admitted to the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of Tsinghua University as a graduate student. He passed the graduation examination in 1935 and obtained the qualification for studying abroad at public expense. Before going abroad, Tong Tong's newlywed Wang Tonghuizi went to Dayaoshan, Guangxi for investigation. During the investigation, he lost his way, stepped on a tiger trap, injured his waist and legs, and went out to seek support. Unfortunately, he drowned. After recovering from his injuries, Fei Xiaotong conducted a social survey while returning to his rural hometown for recuperation.

In 1936, Fei Xiaotong went to study in the UK, and in 1938 he received a Ph.D. The Chinese name of this thesis, "Jiangcun Economy", is widely circulated and has been one of the must-read reference books for students in the social anthropology series of many foreign universities.

After returning to China in 1938, Fei Xiaotong continued to conduct social surveys in the rural areas of the interior, studying various types of communities in rural areas, factories, and ethnic minority areas. Published the survey report "Lucun Farmland".

In 1944, Fei Xiaotong joined the China Democracy League shortly after returning from his visit to the United States. He joined the Patriotic Democracy Movement and was a professor at Tsinghua University. His works include "Fertility System", "Hometown China" and translations "On Culture", "Humanities Type", "Social Issues in Industrial Civilization", etc.