Daley said Friday that Elie Wiesel's autobiographical novel of the Holocaust, "Night," raises important issues of hatred, oppression and genocide that need to be confronted today--even though they're emotionally difficult to consider. ... He said he read "Night" in the 1960s and liked it because it "put a face" on history.
A person who studies the origins and development organisation and functioning of human society is known as a Sociologist. The study is called Sociology.