Sentences with phrase «when social scientist»

When social scientist and psychologists and counselors look for ways of helping couples work out their relationship issues, the answers are not that easy to come by.

So when the social scientist was first called about the job by a search consultant, Blount resisted every entreaty to meet.

When the social scientist and derivatives trader sat down at the same table at a friend's wedding in 2011, they got to talking about their shared interest in «epic failures,» like the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Fukushima nuclear disaster and Hurricane Sandy.

In fact, when social scientists contemplate the mutually conditioning relations among human development, family structures, law, commerce, and the overall culture, their situation is similar to that of natural scientists trying to make sense of such complex phenomena as the long - range weather or turbulence in fluids.

When social scientists, in their efforts to remain simply «objective,» forget that people have a conscience to which they plead, they are in my opinion unrealistic and are not doing their duty as scientists.

What it is to say, however, is that, when social scientists, computer programmers and administrative assistants comprise a significant proportion of IPCC contributors, the global warmer mantra that the IPCC represents the world's top 2500 climate scientists is just plain old - fashioned not true.

Not exact matches

Plenty of thinkers have argued that time abroad increases important skills for business success like comfort with ambiguity, confidence when confronted with the unfamiliar, and accelerated learning, but the team of social scientists out of Rice University, Columbia, and the University of North Carolina behind this study wanted to test the effects of extended travel abroad on self knowledge specifically.

UC San Diego's push to raise a record $ 2 billion in private donations got a big lift Saturday when a scientist who helped turn Facebook into a social - media giant gave the campus $ 75 million.

Years ago, when I was researching an article on research into stress, one social scientist passed on a simple tip: «At some point every day, you have to say, «No more work.

The Black Church in the African American Experience by C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya Duke University Press, 519 pages, $ 47.50 When we cut through the many good reasons that lead social scientists to study religion, we find ourselves in the end confronting questions about politics.

Barbara Ehrenreich picked up the cue, even if she misinterpreted it, when she questioned in her review in the Nation how «five atheistic social scientists» could counsel Americans to go to church.

One social scientist indirectly concluded as much when he described Lutherans as «indistinct,» «hard to identify,» «unobtrusive,» as well as «on the fringe.»

The loss of social power by the ministry as a result of the spread of education and the transference to scientists of the representative authority of learning is comparable to the loss ministers suffered when Church and state were separated.

At the same time, however, I have called attention to the difficulty of trying to work out an «ecological» approach to social policy when we, like the chaos scientists, know so little about how to predict and influence long - term developments.

A social scientist might distill from the refugee incident the hypothesis that there are certain predictable community responses when attempts are made to help people marginal to its corporate life.

I suspected when I first heard this claim that the Committee on the Status of Black Americans, loaded as it was with social scientists, had demolished a straw man, a bloodless construct so rigidly defined as to be meaningless in terms of the actual lives of the humans who inhabit the nation's ghettos and who, for the most part, make up what has come to be called the underclass.

Robert Bellah is a social scientist who outwaits current fashions and lives with and by a vision even when it may be dismissed as utopian or misguided.

We do not really know what to do with religiousness when it expresses itself outside those enclosures which historians and social scientists have carefully labeled religions.

In the long term, the results of the survey are expected to influence ongoing global conversations about the roles and responsibilities of scientists and engineers in society, help clarify public expectations of scientists and engineers, lead to the development of materials for the education of scientists and engineers, and provide empirical data for consideration when developing specific recommendations on the nature and scope of the social responsibilities of scientists and engineers.

«When scientists set out to look for the causes of the Allee effect in the past, they have tended to focus on intrinsic parameters, such as the difficulty finding a mate, inbreeding or social dysfunction in small populations,» explains Elliott.

Attending social meetings during the Society for Neuroscience (SFN) conference, Gilmartin experienced similar anxiety when attempting to network with other scientists.

When Canadian graduate student Marie - Ève Maillé held interviews with 93 people in 2010 about a massive wind farm being built in the Arthabaska region of Quebec, she made a promise that social scientists routinely make: that her respondents would remain anonymous, and that nobody would be able to trace quotes in her thesis back to them.

The one thing I would add is that when I talk about this research — and people know I'm a middle - aged social scientist from Madison driving my Prius to outstate Wisconsin — they say: How do you do it?

When Brossard asked UW scientists how they use social media for scientific purposes, Wikipedia came first for almost 30 percent of them.

«Adopting an R - SEA planning process is a way of building consensus around where, when, and in what form development is appropriate as opposed to our current processes that ask communities — social and ecological — to bear the long - term impacts of new development,» said Cheryl Chetkiewicz, Associate Conservation Scientist with WCS Canada.

The biological sciences are over-represented and social sciences are under - represented, when compared to U.S. scientists and engineers who engage in scientific research, according to a 2013 National Science Foundation report.

It was a sentiment sounded by the AAAS Board of Directors when it adopted on April 16, 2010 its position that «Recognizing that this right lies at the heart of the AAAS mission and the social responsibilities of scientists, AAAS will pursue opportunities to collaborate with the global scientific community so that the voice, interests and concerns of scientists can be brought to this process.»

Some scientists theorize that the so - called Dunbar's number could be larger for online relationships, because the time it takes to have a social interaction is reduced when all you have to do is send a quick message, as opposed to meeting up for coffee, a meal, or a full day of activities.

But when scientists set out in the 1970s and «80s to ask whether social dominance matters in our species, they discovered to their surprise that some sort of hierarchy appears almost automatically in groups of children in countries around the world, usually before age three.

«What does it signify,» Waltraud Perne, a social scientist and managing director of the Resability Forum, asks, «when Jürgen Habermas puts communication at the centre of his considerations?»

When scientists studying behaviour considered animals to be little more than stimulus - bound and instinct - wired robots, to be accused of anthropomorphism was a social calamity.

That advice is especially pertinent now, the scientists say, when people everywhere are linked by social and other media in an «information society.»

When perestroika began, he says, social scientists had the upper hand: «Economists, journalists, pianists... they were against natural science.

The link between brain size and social living was first noted in 1850, when scientists identified mushroom bodies in the insect brain.

The scans revealed that when praised, 13 of the dogs showed equal or greater levels of brain activity in the region that controls decision - making and signals rewards than when they received food, the scientists will report in an upcoming issue of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

When political scientist Gary King of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University and Ph.D. students Jennifer Pan and Margaret Roberts began examining censorship in China in 2011, many scholars assumed that calling for policy changes, criticizing government leaders, and raising sensitive topics like the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989 were verboten.

When it became available for social science research, functional neuroimaging — which enables scientists to observe the brain in action — immediately appealed to social psychologists, and it immediately started to yield robust results.

The scientists then offered strong support for teaching ethics as part of a science degree, especially when scientists and engineers were explicitly expected to be aware of the social implications of their work.

So, as young scientist Florencia Marchini said, «when one becomes conscious of the social and economic impact that our work can create, to take action is a matter of responsibility more than an obligation or a choice.»

Follow the theories that social scientist Brené Brown uncovered when she asked herself, «What do these people with strong and loving relationships, leaders nurturing creativity, artists pushing innovation, and clergy walking with people through faith and mystery have in common?»

When it comes to longevity, social scientists have long known that people with larger real - life social networks have the upper hand.

Social scientists see this as a perfect case of the «paradox of choice,» when increasing options decreases satisfaction.

When «cougardom» was becoming known in mainstream media, social scientists set out to explore the relationship between older women dating younger men.

But social scientists, commentators, and journalists have a responsibility to distinguish between unfounded opinions and serious empirical research and to warn people when a study doesn't adhere to scientific standards.

According to the NSF, the grant was awarded to Fong, in part, because her research helps social scientists understand the «social dynamics of childbearing and childrearing at a time when issues of population pressure and population ageing are increasingly pressing worldwide.»

And yet it will come as no surprise that social scientists, like people in general, find that most adolescent witnesses remain uninvolved when someone else actually suffers the impact of bullying, be it by the fists of a lone assailant or by the cutting words of the members of a popular clique.

Mark points to the social scientist Michael Marmot, who describes stress as what happens when we can not control what is happening to us.

Of course, Ladd is too trained a social scientist not to realize she skates on the slimmest of ice when she presses her poverty argument to the extent she has.

Being a chef is no different than being a social scientist when it comes to mentoring students towards a career.

Dan Zarrella, the social media scientist who authored The Science of Marketing: When to Tweet, What to Post, How to Blog, and Other Proven Strategies, wants you to toss out much of what you've heard about social media marketing and focus on what his research tells you instead.