Sentences with phrase «sociological analyses of»

We explored the philosophical foundations of the common law, traced the evolution of the concept of equal access to justice, and considered different sociological analyses of how ordinary Canadians interact with the civil justice systems built to serve them.

Gerd Theissen, The First Followers of Jesus: A Sociological Analysis of the Earliest Christianity (London: SCM Press.

Beato mentioned that Gerd Theissen, in his sociological analysis of primitive Christianity, had reached the conclusion that there is continuity between Jesus and his first followers and the Mosaic liberation tradition.

Every sociological analysis of mine is answered (not in the sense of replying, but in that of noting the other dialectical pole) by a biblical or theological analysis.

Thus, Schrader's early essays in film criticism for the L. A. Free Press stood apart from typical auteur or sociological analysis of the day, but also from the leftism of the underground press.

Some of them evoke the idea of body movement that is inherent to tarantella and Tarantallegra, like Allison Katz's Legs, a watercolor painting of isolated legs in different extended positions, and Liz Magic Laser's response to Katz's piece, a scientific and sociological analysis of the body language within the original watercolor legs.

Riley Dunlap, whose sociological analysis of environmental policy disputes was recently explored here: Read more...

Riley Dunlap, whose sociological analysis of environmental policy disputes was recently explored here:

Families of the Slums (Minuchin et al., 1967) recounts the experience, which started at the opposite end of the traditional psychodynamic approach — with a sociological analysis of the impact of social context on poor families.

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At the same time, Ludwig von Mises published an article in 1920 called «Economic Calculation in the Socialist Society» and a 1922 book, Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis, arguing that comprehensive central planning of the economy would be disastrous because central planners lacked market prices and market institutions to inform their actions, hence they would waste resources on a vast and even fatal scale.

In a recent article for Christianity Today, Ed Stetzer offers some sociological analysis as to why Pentecostals continue to experience growth despite trends of decline or stagnation among many forms of Christianity.

Let me point out first that, as a piece of sociological analysis, the above is sadly wanting.

The presentation supposes that it is theological views that at least trigger developments in the other areas, which is understandable in a book that proposes a theological reading, not a sociological analysis, of developments in marriage customs.

While this may be excusable in Howard and Streck since they are writing a work of social analysis, there are sociological issues that deserve serious engagement.

One of the watersheds in the use of sociological and anthropological analysis was the publication of The First Urban Christians, by Wayne Meeks, which was a comprehensive attempt to describe the social context and organization of the early Pauline communities.

In this context, Gandhi stresses the analogy between Collingwood's reformed metaphysics and Strawson's descriptive metaphysics, two conceptions that, on Gandhi's view, have to be rejected.3 A concept of metaphysics such as that of Whitehead necessitates, on the contrary, «the analysis and critical evaluation of scientific presuppositions in connection with presuppositions of other domains of civilized thought (moral, religious, sociological, aesthetic, etc.), so as to arrive at a satisfactory conception of the most fundamental characteristics of all that we encounter in our experience.

I have benefited from other efforts to classify civil religions, especially John A. Coleman, «Civil Religion,» Sociological Analysis, 31 (Summer1970), pp. 67 - 77, and Martin E. Marty, «Two Kinds of Two Kinds of Civil Religion,» in R. E. Richey and D. G. Jones, eds., American Civil Religion (New York: Harper & Row, 1974), although some of their distinctions are not incorporated in my typology.

To this we would add a sociological analysis, the aim of which is to explain the social background, to describe the structure, and to ascertain the sociologically relevant implications and results of the movement or institution.

Looking at the varied interplay of these factors makes for a powerful and very successful sociological analysis that can be applied to many situations — businesses, churches, (including dioceses and parishes) as well as clubs, movements and whole nation states.

Kaplan's analysis of Jewish nationalism begins with the Bible, the Talmud, the Midrash, and medieval Jewish theology, while simultaneously freely utilizing modern sociological and philosophical insights.

Form and redaction criticism, now more recently audience criticism, structuralism, psychohistory and sociological analysis, all of these, if only added serially to the old objectivist paradigm, can do nothing to dislodge us from our alienated distance.

One can point to the emergence of a variety of critical approaches to religion in general, and to Christianity in particular, which have contributed to the breakdown of certainties: These include historical - critical and other new methods for the study of biblical texts, feminist criticism of Christian history and theology, Marxist analysis of the function of religious communities, black studies pointing to long - obscured realities, sociological and anthropological research in regard to cross-cultural religious life, and examinations of traditional teachings by non-Western scholars.

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).

It is an exercise in the analysis and interpretation of cultural meaning rather than in sociological explanation, though some of the latter is necessarily present.

I would also need to look at religion, following today the brilliant sociological analysis Tocqueville made of the role of religion in our public life, a role all the founders of the republic discerned.

Second, the combination of sociological analysis with solidarity with those who suffer does not suffice to guide us in many of the concrete political problems of today's world.

Wink makes the important point that the language of «principalities and powers» in the New Testament is not reducible to material forces as tends to be the case in sociological and psychological analysis.

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.

As a serious sociological and philosophical analysis of modernity commissioned by the Bishop's Conference of England and Wales it is a significant project.

Fairclough's approach to CDA links textual and sociological analysis in a way that foregrounds issues of power, resistance and identity [14].

The Guardian and the LSE have partnered up on an impressive journalistic - cum - sociological analysis called «reading the riots», examining the unrest that rocked England this summer on the basis of interviews with people involved, massive social media datasets, and various forms of secondary sources.

It affirms the breadth of the Coens» accomplishment here that in presenting a sharp sociological treatise on a «lost» decade in our recent culture, they've also managed a cogent and fascinating analysis of Raymond Chandler and the influence of noir on the way we interpret the existential crises of modern, fully - acculturated Man.

Scott Forbes has completed a detailed analysis of the sociological and philosophical precedents of holistic education (Oxford University, 1999)[41].

The video studies of teachers» performances become almost «performative» in nature, and were extended by then videotaping the teachers» and pupils» reaction and analysis of those very recordings — in conversation with the artist, a truly self - reflexive recontextualised system — now placed in the context of a fascinating historical document of a temporal, sociological, and cultural location.

Influenced by feminism, psychoanalysis, appropriation, and site - specificity, Fraser's practice has often centered on sociological performance and discursive analysis of various art world positions: the docent, the curator, the visitor, the dealer, the collector, the critic, the art historian, and, as the title of this exhibition suggests, the artist.

His book Inside the White Cube, first published in 1976 as a series of essays in this magazine, is a foundational critical text, an analysis not so much of art as of its physical environment — the white - walled modern gallery — and of the sociological and ideological networks invisibly embedded there.

Dr. Brulle and Dr. Dunalp have just edited a new book, which synthesizes some of main sociological analysis on the climate change policy debate which is well worth reading by anyone interested in climate change.

However, additional sociological analysis is needed to better understand how opponents of climate change policies have successfully manipulated the government response to climate change at the State and local level in the United States and other countries, matters which the Dunlap / Brulle book acknowledges.

The kind of variable sociological and political analysis necessary to produce such rankings simply does not lie within the judicial competence — even if they otherwise were politically feasible and socially desirable.

Leading texts include Magali Sarfatti Larson, The rise of professionalism: a sociological analysis (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977) and Andrew Delano Abbott, The System of Professions: an Essay on the Division of Expert Labor (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988).

Answering this complex question will require integrating many levels of analysis including ecological, sociological, demographic, economic, psychological and biological.

Thirteen were eliminated from analyses because of missing food intake data and 13 were eliminated because of missing sociological data, leaving a sample of 91 families.