Additionally, he holds a bachelor's in history and government from the College of William & Mary and a master's in education policy &
social analysis from Columbia University.
He contends, first, that liberation theology should free
its social analysis from a preoccupation with global «dependent capitalism» and move toward more specific analyses of land reform and of other pressing needs which would help popular Christian movements be «more politically effective at a national level.»
Not exact matches
At the convention, Julianne Holt - Lunstad, a professor of psychology at Brigham Young University, presented evidence
from two meta -
analyses on the effects of
social connection on health.
The
analysis, done by Millennial Branding and analytics company Identified.com, was created by a team of data scientists crunching raw information
from 4 million Facebook profiles of young people to uncover how they are representing themselves on Facebook — and whether they're using the
social network for business purposes.
Facebook announced on Friday that Cambridge Analytica, the data -
analysis firm that played an important role in Donald Trump's online strategy during the 2016 US election, has been suspended
from the
social - media platform for mishandling user data.
The free app provides a forecast of next day price directions for U.S. stock indexes and equities using text
analysis and proprietary algorithms to analyze and encapsulate the online sentiment of publicly traded companies
from seven million web pages published by over fifteen thousand sources, including news outlets, financial analysts, corporate websites and
social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook.
How much risk you can afford to take with your investment portfolio during retirement, or when approaching it, depends on your cash flow
from available income streams — such as pensions,
Social Security benefits or annuities — and doing a thorough cash - flow
analysis is paramount.
Earlier this month,
social science researchers published an
analysis of mortality data
from the Puerto Rico Vital Statistics System to compare the historical death averages for September and October to deaths this year.
Using PRIME's proprietary
social media analytics methods and technology, the research firm identified 13 million relevant
social media posts
from March 2013 to December 2013 on the subject of mobile payment innovation in the context of MasterCard and its industry peers; sentiment
analysis shows the majority of posts were driven by news - story sharing 92 % positive / factual, only 8 % negative tone overall which is a reflection of the original content as it appeared in traditional news outlets.
Although most
analysis of
Social Security benefits assumes that you'll value the money you receive early in retirement only slightly more than the benefits you'll get years down the line, many people expect to get the most out of retirement in the years
from 62 to 70.
Our
analysis demonstrates that the limited number of North Korean leaders and ruling elite with access to the internet are actively engaged in Western and popular
social media, regularly read international news, use many of the same services such as video streaming and online gaming, and above all, are not disconnected
from the world at large or the impact North Korea's actions have on the community of nations.
Features include content
analysis and planning tools based on
analysis from technical site crawls, content
analysis,
social share counts, backlink counts, ranking, value and multi-channel analytics data.
Whether you're putting a fresh take and
analysis upon data collected
from sources such as the ONS for the UK or Data.gov for the US, or are drilling down into anything
from social media following statistics to the earnings of celebrities as published in the Forbes Rich List, there are many ways which you can pull stories through data
analysis.
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Social Data
From IW Financial To Its Proxy Paper
Analysis
Wilcox has not written a religious or political polemic here but rather a scrupulously even - handed report, basing his conclusions on his statistical
analysis of three large - scale national surveys of U.S. adults»
social attitudes conducted
from the late 1980s through the»90s.
The problem is indeed to develop a pedagogy which will allow us to move
from an
analysis at the micro level to that of the macro level to be able to understand the problem of economic globalisation and its
social effects.
From Marxism process theology can learn the importance of critical
analysis of the interests that arise within the situation and of the way that the
social situation controls thinking which does not become self - critical.
The information comes
from an
analysis of data
from the annual British
Social Attitudes survey and the biennial European
Social Survey carried out by Professor Stephen Bullivant in his report, The «No Religion» Population of Britain.
All profoundly religions people are gripped by a vision of reality which is not only beyond the state but beyond the difficult lessons of experience, beyond the realistic
analysis of
social forces and societal needs, beyond the prudential calculations of common sense, and beyond the fragmented bits of data we get
from daily life.
Earlier we found that Marx's critique of religion is derived
from a detailed
analysis of the manifestation of nineteenth century religion, and his negation of religion has a predominantly
social character.
Too great an attachment to the datum self as a methodological starting point commits one unwittingly to solipsism, Hartshorne holds, since one could never achieve a sound epistemological basis for inferring the existence of anything beyond the datum self by this method.31 Further, if it is true that human beings are
social all the way down, resistance to a literal participation in the being of a person by others (including their literal purposes) is also a form of impersonalism, according to Hartshorne's
analysis — a charge
from which Brightman would have reeled, had he realized that this was Hartshorne's implication.
Any difference that Jesus and the gospel might contribute to
social analysis is unexplored, and the church draws down the last deposits of goodwill and credit
from its 19th - century legacy of schools and movements such as the YMCA.
Modernity's emphasis on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of nature which produced a nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific
analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them
from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to
social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular
social affairs on the basis of rational discussion.
No theory need cover the entire range of
social realities, of course, but it is worth noting that sociologists seem to have gained more mileage
from this framework for their considerations of individual beliefs than for
analyses of large - scale institutions.
There are Buddhist
social movements in both Sri Lanka and Thailand that are,
from my point of view, models of religiously - motivated
social analysis and action
from which Christians have much to learn.
Modern efforts to seek
social justice, which recognize more and more the need for sophisticated
social - economic
analysis, can not leave that insight behind when seeking guidance
from the Bible.
Buckley quotes
from an essay by Irving Kristol published three years ago in the National Review, because, he admits, Kristol is Jewish, and because «I can not surpass him in lucid
social analysis.»
Those accustomed to reading
analysis of faith - based reforms by sociologists, theologians and
social workers can learn much
from the political science perspective.
Liberation theology is conducted in a hermeneutical circle which can be entered only in an act of solidarity with the oppressed of the world, an act of such immediacy and commitment that it circumvents the danger of ideological bias normally inherent in political choices.2
From this hermeneutically privileged standpoint, liberation theology proceeds to a
social scientific
analysis of the situation, which is intended to uncover the structures of oppression and the extensive ideological biases both of the oppressors and of their attendant theologies.
However, I have come to realize that this movement viewed the
social order largely
from a middle class perspective, making little use of real class
analysis.
It is worth repeating that economics,
from the time of Plato through to Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill was as deeply concerned with issues of
social justice, ethics and morality as with economic
analysis itself However, economics students today are taught that Adam Smith was the «father of modern economics» but not that he was also a moral philosopher.
In the light of this
analysis, then, my own scenario is cautiously hopeful, depending on (1) whether a creative minority of dreamers and doers with visions of a new life - fulfilling
social order really emerges in strength, (2) the alliances that can be worked out with blacks, the poor, and other minorities now excluded
from major
social benefits, (3) the extent to which the populist idealism of the lower middle classes and working people generally favoring the extension of rights and equality to the «little man» everywhere wins out over the reactionary fears and prejudices which establishment elites and opportunist politicians are all too willing to exploit, and (4) what takes place at the center of the political spectrum itself under the pressure of events and in response to challenges to the established system
from militant seekers of change.
The focus of the discussion was the use of
social sciences in theology, the rereading of the Bible
from the perspective of the poor, the Christian communities in the struggle of liberation and the assumption of some elements of critical and Marxist
analysis for a better and deeper understanding of the conflictual reality of the continent.
A collection of his
social writing
from the 1960s, Seeds of Destruction, contains some of Merton's most penetrating
analyses of modern just - war issues.
I concluded the
analysis of these two camps with a quote
from Dr. Vernon Grounds, president of Evangelicals for
Social Action: «[The question of whether we should use aborted fetuses for this kind of research] comes back to «Shall we do evil that good may come?
Joe Holland and Peter Henriot, two practitioners of
social analysis, put it this way: «Effective pastoral planning necessarily involves this movement
from anecdotal to the analytical.»
If an anecdotal
analysis of our
social consciousness and spiritual formation leaves us with the realization that, as Brown says, «there are some selective lenses by means of which we read Scripture, and... those lenses need to be torn
from our eyes,» (15) then how do we tear them away?
From news channels and
social media to café small talk, all of it revolved around the shock, the grief, the anger, the speculation, the
analysis.
The second process of
analysis used the element of
Social Cognitive Theory and the Health Belief Model as an analytical framework
from which identified themes were considered.
After going through the
analysis of manifestation styles and reuse of
social patterns, one could try to build a political theory regarding the most «important» parties in India on top of these recurring mechanisms (like Political Theory and Postmodernism
from Stephen K. White tried it for Europe).
Also, check out this example of the kind of messaging
analysis social media lets you do, again
from Amy's article:
The Federal Trade Commission confirmed that it has opened an investigation of Facebook following reports that a data
analysis firm used by the Trump campaign improperly accessed the names, «likes» and other personal information
from at least 30 million users on the
social site.
Analysis from the
Social Security Administration finds that the Senate immigration bill «would strengthen the
Social Security trust fund by adding millions of workers to tax rolls and provide a boost to the overall economy.»
The campaign coordinator for the Integrated
Social Development Center (ISODEC), Dr. Emmanuel Steve Asare Manteaw, has said that district assemblies in resource - rich areas across the country could benefit
from the extraction of resources if they conduct an input and output
analysis of the activities of the extraction companies.
The report draws on government and trade statistics, academic evidence and economic theory to challenge arguments that the health and
social benefits of reducing alcohol consumption are likely to come at a cost to the economy, finding: · Any reduction in employment and income resulting
from lower spending on alcohol would be offset by spending on other goods · Econometric
analysis of US states suggests that a 10 % decrease in alcohol consumption is associated with a 0.4 % increase in per capita income growth · Lower alcohol consumption could also reduce the economic costs of impaired workplace productivity, alcohol - related sickness, unemployment and premature death, which are estimated to cost the UK # 8 - 11 billion a year The
analysis comes at a timely moment, with health groups urging the Chancellor to raise alcohol duty in next month's Budget.
$ 480,575 has been awarded
from the Great Lakes Basin Small Grants Program; an additional $ 200,000 will be available 2017 to support coastal resiliency projects: · Natural infrastructure / living shoreline protection techniques · Coastal wetland monitoring and restoration activities · Green infrastructure to improve coastal resiliency · Community stewardship and education initiatives · Coastal property / ecosystem vulnerability
analyses · Economic and
social analyses of the value of resiliency measures
He takes us
from the
analysis of largely non-justiciable constitutional provisions on socio - economic rights, through the commendable array of legislation in the field, to Nigeria's acceptance and ratification of international and regional standards such as the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights.
Building on this prior research, AAAS received funding
from the Open Society Foundation to support (1) development, dissemination and
analysis of a preliminary global questionnaire to elicit the views of scientists, engineers and health professionals as to the meaning of the right; and (2) organization of a briefing for the United Nations Committee on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights to inform its development of a General Comment on the right.
In addition to fieldwork in Turkish border towns,
from where the vast majority of foreign fighters enter Syria, we have compiled the
social media profiles of nearly 400 Western fighters in Syria and Iraq using the data
analysis software platform Palantir.
Bowers worked with the US Central Command's human terrain
analysis branch, which is separate
from the army's Human Terrain System (HTS), a better known program that embeds
social scientists within the military.