Sentences with phrase «while social scientists»

Physicists tend to generalize, while social scientists do local case studies.»

Social networks like Friendster depend heavily on software programs, while social scientists frequently rely on computers for statistical analysis.

From ecologists, we learned cannibalism was often an important part of predation and foraging, while social scientists studied its relationship to courtship, mating and even parental care.

While the social scientist aims to present the truth of the matter, politicians and spinners live by a different ethic.

Not exact matches

While the thought of having difficult conversations may fill most of us with dread, business social scientist Joseph Grenny says avoiding conflict is a big mistake.

The humanists and social scientists can adopt the same commonsense philosophy while concerning themselves solely with the activities of human beings.

After all, going from being a horrible parent to being an adequate parent, according to one social scientist, makes an enormous difference in a child's life — while going from adequate to excellent makes only a negligible one.

While for the social scientist empirical data form the major source for his or her understanding and evaluation of a phenomenon, for the religious practitioner empirical data are just one source of determinative information, and often fill a secondary role behind other sources such as personal experience, intuition, and religious tradition.

«While I applaud their moral vision of justice and commitment to the poor,» he explains, «as a social scientist I question the adequacy of the letter's analysis of Third World poverty and the implied policy prescriptions for alleviating it.»

And while scientists can't point to a «happiness» gene or isolate a «moody» nodule in the brain, an abundance of research shows that your baby's temperament — her basic emotional and social style — is hardwired in her brain.

«Ultimately, it is the tendency of all too many social scientists (and the public) to deny, dismiss or minimize findings they do not like, while embracing, if not playing up, those they do like, that gives social science a bad name — as ideology masquerading as science.

While there is a growing literature concerning the issues encapsulated by the phrase «social responsibility of scientists and engineers,» a review of that literature reveals many and sometimes competing views, and a lack of data to inform the discussion.

While there is a growing literature concerning the issues encapsulated by the phrase «social responsibility of scientists,» a review of that literature reveals many and sometimes competing views, and the lack of data to inform the discussion.

Previous social science research has focused on the views of academic scientists and those working at elite universities while studies of religous views of science have focused primarily on the issue of evolution, said Ecklund.

While Olesen looks at the technical potential of various technologies for utilizing crop residues and manure as bioenergy sources, social scientists and economists study social constraints on such mitigation measures, such as profitability and the mindset of farmers.

For years, political scientists have wondered whether the social network's news feed selectively serves up ideologically charged news while filtering out content from opposite political camps.

While giving his testimony, Atran called on the U.S. government to engage social scientists more directly in open, peer - reviewed studies of terrorism, rather than relying on clandestine intelligence and antiterrorism technology.

Others such as Connotea store reference information online, allowing access while scientists travel, and include commentary features such as social bookmarking, which allows a scientist's contacts to read his or her comments in a dedicated feed.

One big reason for the imbalance is that rules designed to safeguard privacy also make it hard — if not impossible — for social scientists to examine the data that agencies collect while administering those programs.

While climate researchers struggle to refine their projections of the changing global climate and to anticipate the social impact of those shifts, a growing number of scientists are realizing that the past may contain valuable lessons about our future.

By now, applications of artificial life (Alife) are becoming commonplace: Social scientists use «evolutionary» algorithms to explore social interactions, for example, while biologists harness the equations for studying protein folding and lining up DNA sequSocial scientists use «evolutionary» algorithms to explore social interactions, for example, while biologists harness the equations for studying protein folding and lining up DNA sequsocial interactions, for example, while biologists harness the equations for studying protein folding and lining up DNA sequences.

The opening to Gene Roddenberry's 1973 TV movie Genesis II (Warner Archive Collection) takes a while to explain how scientist Dylan Hunt (Alex Cord in a really groovy mustache) went to sleep in 1979 and woke up in 2133, but once he wakes up we're in classic Roddenberry territory of social commentary in sci - fi trappings, in this case a post-apocalyptic world where a (literally) underground society of idealists tries to preserve the art and knowledge of the past in the face of tribal groups fighting for dominance in the world above.

Bunny's claim not to speak the language of the social scientist belies his 30 years as a Baltimore policeman, during which he negotiated with groups of drug dealers and manned the podium at COMSTAT meetings while the upper brass hounded him over crime figures.

A former high school teacher, Barnett has worked as a social scientist at the RAND Corporation, served as a senior executive with the South Carolina Department of Education, and directed an education policy center while he was a professor at the University of South Carolina.

While he is not a physical scientist, what Dr. Glantz brought to the table was a perspective on the social aspect of such climate research in a real - world setting.

While many are renowned scientists (though very few from climate science) others are, for selected examples: Swedish Diplomat [and former weapons inspector], Nobel Prize winner in Literature, President of WWF International, Photographer and film producer, Mayor of Stockholm, EU parliamentarian, Professor of Social Sciences,.....

Prominent examples include MSNBC's Melissa Harris - Perry, Rachel Maddow, Steve Kornacki, and Chris Hayes; Vox's Ezra Klein, Dylan Matthews, and Matt Yglesias; the sabermetrician Nate Silver; the economist Paul Krugman; the atheist Richard Dawkins; former vice president Al Gore; celebrity scientist Bill Nye; and, really, anybody who conforms to the Left's social and moral precepts while wearing glasses and babbling about statistics.

While we are political scientists, we draw on insights from across the social sciences and seek to address pressing theoretical questions with analytical rigor.

And while China is developing engineering expertise, USA and Australia are training lawyers, social scientists and socialists.

Advancing his own profession as a social scientist, Fischhoff expresses his concern that the climate scientists» advocacy «might be like shouting at people who speak a different language, thus losing their trust while conveying little content, resulting in unpersuasive communication.»

This is one of the many conundrums of the climate change debate — a debate that has been taken over by social media and propaganda, while scientists struggle to get back into the game and engage the public.

TEACHING / PRESENTATION HISTORY Graduate Assistant — Texas Woman's University 2010 to Present Theories of the Family, Family Public Policy, Family Sexuality, Family Change and Diversity Guest Lecturer — Mountainview College Spring 2010 Guest Lecturer, Black Family Course Instructor — Axia College (Online) Fall / Winter 2007 Psychology Instructor — North Central Texas College Fall 2007 Graduate / Research Assistant — Texas Southern University Spring 2005 Presentations: 2010 Ohio Early Care and Education Conference, Columbus, OH April 2010 Pretend Play & African American Families: Learning While Bonding (requested workshop) Educational First Steps Annual Conference, Dallas, TX Feb. 2010 Learning While Bonding (requested workshop) National Black Child Development Institute, Atlanta, GA April 2009 Strengthening Black Families Through Play (workshop) Collin College Educators Symposium, Plano, TX April 2009 Share My World: Play and African American Children (workshop) Texas Woman's University Student Research Symposium, Denton, TX April 2009 The Impact of Adolescence on African American Parent - Daughter Relations (poster presentation) Collegium for African American Research, Bremen, Germany (paper presentation) March 2009 The 20th Century Social Scientist and the African in America: Implications for 21st Century Research Pearls and Ivy Annual Healthy Relationship Forum, Plano, TX (workshop) April 2009 Beyond, Me, Myself, and I: Impact of Early Adolescence on Females» Interpersonal Relationships Pearls and Ivy Annual Healthy Relationship Forum, Plano, TX Jan. 2008 Maintaining Healthy Relationships and Recognizing Unhealthy Relationships (workshop) The Health Group, Houston, TX Feb. 2005 Recognizing Depression in Yourself and Others (workshop)

While it is important to have a baseline for different groups, since that is what we do as social scientists, it's typically not what someone is really asking.

In one study, scientists induced social stress in a group of men by making them perform mental arithmetic out loud while standing in front of strangers.

While many scientists explore what people have in common, several studies publishing online to Social Psychological and Personality Science show us how differences help us understand individuals.