Sentences with phrase «about social science»

Specifically, we want to translate research, make social psych more accessible & begin an informal dialog about social science in the digital age.

Social media is about social science, not technology.

Social Media is about social science, not technology.

In doing the prior post I thought that there may be some Slawyers who don't know about the Social Science Research Network's e-Library.

So whose factual hunches about social science assertions should take precedence - the District Court's or the appellate court's?

In my view, that distortion is at least as much a story about journalism as it is about social science.

How about Social Science, Law?

Stutzky says zombies can also teach kids important lessons about the social sciences — psychology, social work, group dynamics.

Like Maclntyre, Taylor is unusually knowledgeable about the social sciences (he has taught in...

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This includes a $ 37 million pledge to the University of Washington School of Social work, $ 11 million for scholarships to Washington residents in STEM fields, a $ 50 million pledge to the University of Oregon for scholarships and obesity prevention, and about $ 60 million to Harvard's computer science facility.

When one man who has disrupted the energy, automotive and space industries, and another who connected nearly 2 billion individuals in the same social network, make major moves in neuroscience, somehow it feels like science fiction is evolving into history, and that our lives are about to change in unprecedented ways.

So every economics department was closed down, every social science department was closed down, about 10,000 labor leaders, government workers and others were murdered or driven into exile.

MaRS is thrilled to announce that Dr. Ilse Treurnicht has been invited to speak about the MaRS model of integrating social innovation alongside science and technology innovation.

Therefore, we need to be cautious about pronouncements about the answers to the riddles of the social science of investing.

The fact is there are already plenty of churches in America, arguably the majority of them in this country, that emphasize social justice, acceptance of LGBT, and «letting science to its thing» — I'm talking about the mainline liberal churches.

The experts have stated that social science has shown that the concerns often raised about children of lesbian and gay parents — concerns that are generally grounded in prejudice against and stereotypes about gay people — are unfounded.

The mission conceptions of alcoholism and homelessness are grossly in adequate, overlooking nearly all that the social sciences have to tell about these two phenomena.

The bill, and especially the sentence about forgoing dollar valuation, closely mirror a major issue in the social sciences about how people exchange different forms of goods and services and to what extent one form is commensurable with another.

Even if one were as enthusiastic about the idea of consilience as Professor Wilson, it would not neatly solve any of the problems he notes, especially in the humanities and social sciences.

With less panache, but with equal force and even further empirical social science evidence, her method resembles Roland Barthes» Mythologies in its outlines of the deep structure of the contemporary beliefs and practices surrounding our most deeply held moral codes about human sexual desire — or should I say eros.

Theories of modernization, despite the rather serious attacks to which they have been subjected in recent years, have been so prominent in the social sciences, and have played such an important role in our thinking about social change, that any effort to consider the changing relations between states and religious institutions must begin here.

Thus, socia1 science is a man - made system of knowledge about man - made social systems.

It can be a social science, for instance, most immediately concerning things about money, and extending to the calculus of social and cultural exchanges where notions of benefit and utility operate.

Still, the context of this sentence becomes clearer when he talks about how the value - laden «paradigms and assumptions» of the social sciences and humanities have contributed to the problematic conditioning of our understanding of education.

But what about within the social sciences, where questions of what is good and just intersect with the moral standards that the LDS Church proclaims to be true?

Thus on both the social and the individual levels the proposal of a simple transfer of the ethical attitudes of science appears to underestimate the complexity of ethical issues, to idealize the purity of the scientist's motives, and to provide no adequate dynamic for concern about the welfare of others.

Empirical Science has certainly brought many benefits to communities but a by - product has been an obscuring of questions about social, personal and cosmic meaning.

One of the studies that I talk about in the book is where social science researchers look at black women who had experienced trauma, and they found these women were more likely to internalize the characteristics of the Strong Black Woman as a way of coping with trauma.

In uncovering this store of information about his congregation's context and identity, David Landry could thank the social sciences for facilitating his entree into the culture of Faith Church.

I know plenty of evangelicals who embrace the science of evolution, and I know plenty of mainliners who are passionate about both social justice and theology.

Of course I have been talking, in the first story, about the beleaguered but unbowed Mark Regnerus, the sociologist whose New Family Structures Study was published in Social Science Research in 2012.

Social science has shown that the concerns often raised about children of lesbian and gay parents — concerns that are generally grounded in prejudice against and stereotypes about gay people — are unfounded.

Which is why they stated social science has shown that the concerns often raised about children of lesbian and gay parents — concerns that are generally grounded in prejudice against and stereotypes about gay people — are unfounded.

I have always thought that the global warming, or «climate change» debate, was as much about social psychology as science.

Your prejudice and bigotry is hysterical because the experts have already stated that social science has shown that the concerns often raised about children of lesbian and gay parents — concerns that are generally grounded in prejudice against and stereotypes about gay people — are unfounded.

Whitehead's ideas about education are contained in Whitehead, Alfred North, The Aims of Education and Other Essays (New York: A Mentor Book, The New American Library of World Literature, Inc., 1963), and in the final chapter of his Science and the Modern World (New York: A Mentor Book, The New American Library of World Literature, Inc., 1956), Chapter XIII, «Requisites for Social Progress,» pp. 192 - 208.

These assertions often do not differ markedly from the kinds of theoretical and explanatory arguments prevalent in the social science literature, but they serve as rhetorical appeals aimed at shaping the way we think about our world, the ways we vote, and the policies we support.

Knowledge about individual community leaders, the history and development of a town, the way decisions are made in its institutions and social groups, the deals being made in the world of politics and business, the norms and values in the arts and sciences, the presuppositions and operational concepts of the professions — this is grist for the mill of a core group which has the responsibility of planning strategy for the mission of a particular church in an American community.

And no, I don't just disregard science (nor the common consensus in matters of politics, social norms, alternative lifestyles, etc.)-- I understand the importance, but also the shortcomings of relying on man's own inferences about the nature of life, the universe, and the meaning of existence.

Inasmuch as congregations are themselves social spaces with social forms, theological schooling focused through questions about them must attend critically to the scripture whose use creates the social space; and it must attend to the disciplines of the human sciences that provide understanding of the social forms that make congregations moral and political realities in their own right.

Such a «social constructionist» conception of science might seem as menacing to Hawking as it would to Wordsworth, both of whom need to believe that, whatever ontological affinities must be conceded, the distinction between daffodils and stinkweeds is grounded not only in the human intuition about the world but in the nature of things.

The text speaks about the instrumental value of social science, but it does not make clear the goal for which the instrument is used.

They are seeking what has been called post-modern paradigms for «an open secular democratic culture» within the framework of a public philosophy (Walter Lippman) or Civil Religion (Robert Bellah) or a new genuine realistic humanism or at least a body of insights about the nature of being and becoming human, evolved through dialogue among renascent religions, secularist ideologies including the philosophies of the tragic dimension of existence and disciplines of social and human sciences which have opened themselves to each other in the context of their common sense of historical responsibility and common human destiny.

And the encounter with truth requires that we understand the methods appropriate to its complex character: truth about structures is discerned primarily through the objective methods of the sciences — natural, social, historical — and through the rigorous application of critical thought; truth about meanings is learned through the intuition and exercise of faith, hope and love.

Developments in philosophy, psychology and other social sciences have conspired to make even the religious at times doubtful about the capacity of symbols to put them in touch with the mystery of ultimate reality.

One wonders whether, in the future, when we shall know so much more about what literature says and how it hangs together than we now do, we shall come to see literary myth as a similarly constructive principle in the social or qualitative sciences, giving shape and coherence to psychology, anthropology, theology, history and political theory without losing in any one of them its own autonomy of hypothesis.»

What we have written about the social dimensions of preaching arises from our experience, our reflection on society, and some familiarity with selected social science literature.

«The overarching issue is that when kids are hungry they can't focus on math, music, science, social studies, or art, if they are thinking about when they are going to eat,» he continued.

«The overarching issue is that when kids are hungry they can't focus on math, music, science, social studies, or art, if they are thinking about when they are going to eat.

About the Author: Emily Dick has recently graduated with an Honors Degree from the Open University in the field of social science.