Sentences with phrase «in sociological terms»

Or, in sociological terms: how do work and life interconnect differently in, say, Zurich and Winterthur, as opposed to, say, Calcutta?

In sociological terms, the plausibility structure has changed; what was inconceivable 30 years ago is now conceivable, because we have begun to see, experience, and study it.

Allow me to put this in sociological terms (sociology provides a limited but useful «grammar» here): Every human society has its own corpus of officially accredited wisdom, the beliefs and values that most people take for granted as self - evidently true.

Posner describes the purposes of the intricate theorizing in the legal academy in sociological terms.

Not exact matches

Instead of being seen in terms of person - to - person relationship and the love of Christ, the problem is posed in global and sociological terms (which proves that the point of departure was humanist and social).

Using modern terms, we should say that the Bible records a development of thought about human nature in both its sociological and psychological aspects.

[3] The term was coined by sociologist Peter Berger in his The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion.

Others have insisted that their work is social - scientific in the strong sense of the term — that is, as work guided by the correlation of models and data, as are more purely sociological and social - psychological studies.

Two explanatory devices help me understand the South's containedness, or cultural «sacredness,» in the sociological sense of the term.

As I use the word in this book, it refers to that group of over forty - five million Americans and millions more worldwide who believe in (1) the need for personal relationship with God through faith in the atoning work of Jesus Christ, and (2) the sole and binding authority of the Bible as God's revelation.5 «Evangelical» is, first of all, a theological term, though its adherents may also have derivative sociological and psychological traits.

In trying to delineate this crisis, it is helpful first to define evangelicalism, for the phenomenon has been variously described using psychological, sociological, and theological terms.

It is important to realize that there is this dimension to the notion of the religious community because the secularized understanding of many modern Westerners can not conceive of it except in purely sociological terms.

At any rate, Tonnies, who first coined the word «Gemeinschaft» as a sociological category, used the term in both a descriptive and a critical sense.

This proposition is examined in terms of the three universal expressions or functions of religious faith, whether theistic or non-theistic: the practical, or the system of worship or ritual; the sociological, or the system of social relationships; and the theoretical, or the system of beliefs.

For the Church is the eschatological congregation of the saints whose identity with a sociological institution and a phenomenon of the world's history can be asserted only in terms of paradox.

Finally, there must be added a religio - sociological analysis, in our sense of the term, the aim of which is to analyze the social background, to describe the structure, and to ascertain the sociologically relevant implications of the religious movement and institutions.

It is dangerous to explain, for instance, all the cultic and sociological features of Islam solely in terms of the religious experience of Muhammad.

Victims of large sets of sociological inequities - different opportunities in terms of education, employment and property among other things - women globally have lower perspectives than men.

In sociological and political terms, it is half - way between the IPB and the more (at the top) left - leaning and ecumenical Methodist Church.

Victims of large sets of sociological inequities - different opportunities in terms of education, employment and property among other things

«I can see that this paper might generate some controversy, in terms of using biological data to determine sociological structures,» says Angelique Corthals, a forensic anthropologist at the City University of New York in New York City, who was not involved in the research.

Not only is Aziz Ansari one of the best comedians and actors of this generation, but he also has an astute sociological mind, especially in terms of dating.

But describing the crisis of the family among low - income Americans in these economic and sociological terms may itself be a way of avoiding the deeper problem of which these are but symptoms.

Often drawing upon autobiographical, art historical or sociological sources, Ruby's work is frequently referred to as «post-humanist» — a term that broadly describes a society which, thanks in part to technological advancement, has evolved beyond fixed categories of being (e.g. time / place), or predetermining classifications (e.g. animal / human).

The impact of objects in these terms is not only sociological, but economical, political, existential, psychological, epistemological: it is total — beyond a label which is meant to mark a certain, already passed, historical - cultural moment.

You also say that you are «not saying that is the threshold», while every definition of the lousy sociological term «tipping point» has severe resemblance and is synonomous to «threshold» as it is understood in «catastrophe theory» (which is an application of more general theory of bifurcations in one - parametric families of dynamical systems).

Intergenerational equity in economic, psychological, and sociological contexts, is the concept or idea of fairness or justice in relationships between children, youth, adults and seniors, particularly in terms of treatment and interactions.

As used in this subsection, the term «religious training and belief» does not include essentially political, sociological, or philosophical views, or a merely personal moral code.

(Personal plight is a sociological term for law practices in which (i) the clients are individuals and (ii) the legal needs arise from disputes.)

Alongside this research, there is intervention, epidemiological, sociological and qualitative evidence all suggesting that local environments are important in supporting the family capacity necessary to raise children in ways that promote good developmental outcomes.6, 7 The neighbourhoods or communities in which people live appears to impact health and well - being.8 While «neighbourhood» is often used in other studies, in the Australian context «neighbourhood» and «community» are often used interchangeably (these terms are further defined on page 9).7 The research into neighbourhood effects on children was originally motivated by the observation that disadvantage seemed geographically concentrated and intergenerational.

From the sociological perspective, it is critically important that the owners of communal lands are provided with detailed, yet technically basic, information about what rights they are waiving, and what obligations they will have or not have, in agreeing to long term leasing of their traditional lands.