A 2006 and 2007 study on superstition by the University of Iceland ’ s Faculty of Social Sciences supervised by Terry Gunnell ( associate folklore professor ), reveal that natives would not rule out the existence of elves and ghosts ( similar results of a 1974 survey by Professor Erlendur Haraldsson, Fréttabladid reports ).

Other people who have undertaken reincarnation research include Jim B. Tucker, Satwant Pasricha, Godwin Samararatne, and Erlendur Haraldsson.

* Erlendur Haraldsson & Joop Houtkoper: Report on an Indian Swami Claiming to Materialize Objects: The Value and Limitations of Field Observations.

* Haraldsson, Erlendur, Miracles are my visiting cards ISBN 81-86822-32-1, published by Sai Towers, Prashanthi Nilayam ( 1997 ) chapter 21 The Critics

One of the roles of the social scientist, ethicist or theologian in our discussions with the realtors became that of encouraging greater awareness of the opportunities offered by the legal and political processes for the exercise of broad social responsibilities in their work.

* Gregory Bateson, polymath, anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist

* 1959 – Donald Markwell, Australian social scientist and educator

Weber was put in charge of the study and wrote a large part of the final report, which generated considerable attention and controversy and marked the beginning of Weber's renown as a social scientist.

* 1780 – Thomas Chalmers, Scottish pastor, social reformer, author, and scientist ( d. 1847 )

* Micah Altman ( born 1967 ), American social and information scientist

Professor JG Ottong, a social scientist at the University of Calabar, explained that population has been a sensitive and controversial issue " because of its implications for shaping regional, state and ethnic relations and balance of power ".

If the category of " scientist " is limited to those who do scientific research as a profession, then the social role of scientist essentially emerged in the 19th century as part of the professionalization of science.

The appointment of the social scientist to the mostly humanistic faculty was an important sign of the change of times, and the growing importance and recognition of the social sciences.

French social and cognitive scientist Dan Sperber, with his colleague Hugo Mercier, describes the idea that there could have been other forces driving the evolution of reason.

The biggest advocate for seeing social capital as a geographical subject was American economist and political scientist, Robert Putnam.

Friedrich Engels (; 28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895 ) was a German-English industrialist, social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of Marxist theory, alongside Karl Marx.

That which makes such a description different from the " naive " subjective descriptions of the man in the street, or those of the traditional, positivist social scientist, is the utilization of phenomenological methods.

* Rupert Vance, social scientist

It was this meaning that was evoked by the Saint Simonian Olinde Rodrigues in his essay, " L ' artiste, le savant et l ' industriel ", (“ The artist, the scientist and the industrialist ”, 1825 ) which contains the first recorded use of " avant-garde " in its now-customary sense: there, Rodrigues calls on artists to " serve as people's avant-garde ", insisting that " the power of the arts is indeed the most immediate and fastest way " to social, political, and economic reform.

* Ron Everett, aka Maulana Karenga ( born 1941 ), US political activist and social scientist

Alfred Schütz ( 13 April 1899, Vienna-20 May 1959, New York City ) was an Austrian social scientist, whose work bridged sociological and phenomenological traditions to form a social phenomenology, and who is " gradually achieving recognition as one of the foremost philosophers of social science of the century ".

* John Heron ( born 1928 ), social scientist

Like her husband, Helen was a social scientist and educator and the two met at a conference where she was presenting.

Tamano takes the perspective of a social scientist and describes Sōka Gakkai as a socio-political phenomenon.