occupationalist
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One of four categories of sociologist propounded by Horowitz: a sociologist who is primarily committed to some sociological questions or issues.
noun
adj
Providing benefits to people based on employment (as opposed to socialism, welfare, etc.).
Example Sentences
- "Finally, the occupationalist thinks the difference concerns how objects are related to regions of spacetime."
- "The Department of Occupational Therapy was opened March 1st, 1927, with one occupationalist in charge."
- "Social Security, in accordance with the 'occupationalist approach', covers only persons engaged in the specified types of gainful activities."
- "The Italian pension system comprised more than 120 separate public pension funds for different sectors and categories of workers at its peak (Castellino 1976) and is therefore an unusually fragmented occupationalist system."
- "These schemes are also occupationalist in nature and are primarily designed to protect workers in the event of work injury, sickness and maternity."
Etymology
From occupational + -ist.