Sentences with phrase «sociological research at»

«If the committee could pull together what we already know... and make very strong recommendations» regarding changes in science and engineering education, the effort would be worth it, says Elaine Seymour, who works in the Bureau of Sociological Research at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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Andrew Greeley and his associates at the National Opinion Research Center have concluded on the basis of their sociological research that Humanae Vitae, the 1968 papal encyclical condemning artificial contraception, «seems to have been the reason for massive apostasy and for a notable decline in religious devotion and beliefResearch Center have concluded on the basis of their sociological research that Humanae Vitae, the 1968 papal encyclical condemning artificial contraception, «seems to have been the reason for massive apostasy and for a notable decline in religious devotion and beliefresearch that Humanae Vitae, the 1968 papal encyclical condemning artificial contraception, «seems to have been the reason for massive apostasy and for a notable decline in religious devotion and belief.»

Co., 1978); Thomas C. Campbell and Yoshio Fukuyama, The Fragmented Layman: An Empirical Study of Lay Attitudes (Philadelphia: Pilgrim Press, 1970); James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as an Independent Variable,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 11 (1972): 65 - 75; James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as a Dependent Variable,» Sociological Analysis 33 (1972): 81 - 94; James D. Davidson, «Patterns of Belief at the Denominational and Congregational Levels,» Review of Religious Research 13 (1972): 197 - 205; David R. Gibbs, Samuel A. Miller, and James R. Wood, «Doctrinal Orthodoxy, Salience and the Consequential Dimension,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 12 (1973): 33 - 52; William McKinney, and others, Census Data for Community Mission (New York: Board for Homeland Ministries, United Church of Christ, 1983), part of a denomination - wide study of census data relevant to each congregation in the United Church of Christ; David O. Moberg, `' Theological Position and Institutional Characteristics of Protestant Congregations: An Explanatory Study,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1974).

At the same time that she was ingesting all this psychological research about motivation, Farrington was also studying the related sociological literature, which was concerned with how institutional structures affect individual behavior and, specifically, how certain educational structures — like school funding mechanisms, teacher contracts, or patterns of segregation — might incline students toward success or failure.

I'm no expert, but in addition to the vast amount of research I did before my 2nd child (homebirth), my experience with an ob before I switched to a midwife with that same child, my experience with a medicated vaginal hospital birth w / my first child, my experience in talking to dozens of women that have had surgical births, in addition to all that anecdotal «wisdom», I have taken a graduate level Sociology of Medicine class that was an in depth look at our current medical system from a sociological perspective and we spent a couple of weeks talking about the medical model of birth and the alternatives.

I also think that any government that is intending to bring in such a change would be very wise to look at, and research carefully, the sociological impact.

Browning presented the research Aug. 14 in Montreal at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.

Their research, which they will present at the 111th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA), suggests that divorce filings may be driven by a «domestic ritual» calendar governing family behavior.

But Laird's research, presented this week at the American Sociological Association's annual meeting in Chicago, found that black civil servants, especially women, lost their jobs at rates higher than whites.

Danielle Bessett, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Cincinnati, will present her research on this issue at the 108th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.

Although working mothers and fathers are almost as likely to think about family matters throughout the day, only for mothers is this type of mental labor associated with increased stress and negative emotions, according to new research to be presented at the 108th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.

In science, whether taking a long sociological look at an individual laboratory as a fact factory or reviewing the whole research system, these authors ask how local, provisional knowledge is transformed into the global certainties of natural law.

«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.

As we behold the incredible development of scientific research we detect an underlying movement towards the discovery of levels of law and process which unify created reality and which at the same time have given rise to the vast diversity of structures and organisms which constitute the physical and biological, and even the psychological and sociological, worlds.

Daniele Fanelli is a Leverlhulme research fellow at the University of Edinburgh, UK, where he uses advanced quantitative methods to help settle long - standing philosophical and sociological debates on the nature of science.

Before transitioning to more sociological research on the process of science, she was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California (UC) at Berkeley working on avian ecology.

The researchers presented their research as a working paper this weekend at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, and are now studying other states to see if their findings hold true in a larger sample size.

Dr. Jenny van Hooff, senior lecturer in sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University & the study's author, presented the research at the British Sociological Association's conference this week, saying:

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Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, American Sociological Association, and Spencer Foundation, and she has published in a variety of journals, including Journal of Children and Poverty, Education and Urban Society, Journal of Latinos and Education, Contemporary Sociology, Journal of At - Risk Issues, and Bilingual Research research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, American Sociological Association, and Spencer Foundation, and she has published in a variety of journals, including Journal of Children and Poverty, Education and Urban Society, Journal of Latinos and Education, Contemporary Sociology, Journal of At - Risk Issues, and Bilingual Research Research Journal.

Her work has been presented at a multitude professional conferences and proceedings, including the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the American Sociological Association (ASA), the Population Association of America (PAA), and Comparative and International Education Society (CIES).