Sentences with phrase «as a sociologist»

Both men, from their differing perspectives on culture — Berger as a sociologist of religion and Lewis as a professor of English literature — have allowed play to be the activity we have described in Chapter Two.

As a mother myself, as well as a sociologist who studies families, I have experienced firsthand the unexpected costs associated with having a child.

For several years now, my work as a sociologist has circled around the phenomenon of pluralism.

His careful suggestions open up fresh understandings for the religious practitioner as well as the sociologist.

Originally trained as a sociologist, Reid spent months at a major global consultancy interviewing people about how they negotiated the demands of their jobs.

As sociologist Zeynep Tufekci described it in a recent paper:

While aware that Niebuhr would not be recognized as a sociologist by most sociologists today, Witham, in a quite illuminating manner, positions Niebuhr in the tradition of Comte, Marx, Durkheim and Weber, who sought to map the progress of whole societies.

Timothy Smeeding was incorrectly identified as a sociologist in an earlier version of the story.

* Correction, 4 June, 10:40 a.m.: Timothy Smeeding was incorrectly identified as a sociologist in an earlier version of the story.

However, as the sociologist Susan Shapiro points out, third parties merely shift the trust problem from one entity to another.

Yet, as Wilcox points out, this doesn't seem to matter to their wives, because as sociologists before him have noted, marriages seem to function in an «economy of gratitude» in which the husband's expression of appreciation for his wife's work counts more than totting up who took out the garbage when.

Increasingly, denominations are loose coalitions, but the one thing they do best, as sociologist Nancy Ammerman has observed, is to behave like denominations.

They are, as sociologists say, «path dependent.»

But as sociologist Peter Berger noted some years ago, religious experiences, whatever else they are, are institutionally dangerous.

This is not to deny the importance of social ties and social locations (were I to do so, I would have to resign my commission as a sociologist).

Greeley's project as a sociologist of religion.

Now if someone were to make the observation as a sociologist or historian that Jesus is the Christ, they would be making the objective (and basically indisputable) statement that he is the one whom Christians claim to follow.

As sociologist George Yancey has declared, perhaps these crimes would be less frequent if we focused on the lives that had been lived rather than the killer who ended them.

Previous ratings have prompted a range of responses; some may look at the same report and champion evangelicals» popularity while others lament society's negative views, as sociologist Brad Wright wrote for CT in 2011.

As sociologist Otto Pollak has put the matter, «Humans are open systems which must exchange input and output with others in order to live.»

As sociologist David Lyon has put it, consumption expresses a «system of symbolic rivalry,» where consumers form their identity «through acquiring commodities that make them distinct from others, and seek approval through lifestyle and symbolic membership.»

As sociologist Robert Bellah said: «Each individual must work out their own ultimate solutions and the most the church can do is to provide a favorable environment for doing so, without imposing on him a prefabricated set of answers.»

In the course of my career as a sociologist of religion I made one big mistake and had one big insight (arguably not such a bad record).

As sociologist Lisa Wade has detailed, «adult, white, heterosexual men have the fewest friends.

As sociologists Karyn Loscocco and Susan Walzer detail in Gender and the Culture of Heterosexual Marriage in the United States:

As sociologist Stephanie Coontz beautifully explains, heteros have.

As sociologist Philip Cohen detailed this week, just 34 percent of all young children are being raised in what we consider a «normal» modern family — two working parents.

For parents who want to feed their kids right, Dina leverages a unique combination of expertise as a sociologist and a mother to help parents solve their kids» eating problems by focusing on the root of the problem — eating habits, not nutrition.

As the sociologist Will Davies notes, the earlier age of industrial production at least had a clear demarcation between rest and leisure, whereas we are now always switched on, dragged away from each moment by the urge to capture and compare it as the full - time under - labourers of advertisers.

But programmes such as Scared Straight and boot camps are aimed at adolescents and are arguably just as hateful — as sociologist Mike Males of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice in San Francisco notes, adolescents tend to be a perennial societal punching bag.

Visions of the e-village are up for grabs, as sociologists surf the Net

Also, people described as sociologists, psychologists, or linguists — or having made contributions to those fields — are a far more diverse band than for the «hard» sciences such as physics and chemistry.

As sociologist Fran Tonkiss of the London School of Economics and Political Science put it: «Cities are just about the right size for dealing with some of the most serious problems we're facing.»

As sociologist Daniel Bell once wrote, «The nation - state is becoming too small for the big problems of life, and too big for the small problems of life.»

i finished my degree as a sociologist and am now working with a textile company as a supplier.i like reading, cooking and going to the sea side to observe things of nature.

Nearly 80 per cent of Japanese marry out, as sociologists put it..

What she has done for my research in that one speech is as influential as some sociologists I've been reading for the last eight years.

While immigrant youth inevitably must navigate multiple cultures, many schools and districts have yet to develop strategies for supporting this «cultural straddling,» as sociologist Prudence Carter calls it.

In her new book, Exit: The Endings That Set Us Free, Sara Lawrence - Lightfoot, Fisher professor of education, deploys her skills as sociologist and storyteller to probe these transitions.»

As sociologist Joel Best writes in Damned Lies and Statistics, «We may think of statistics as facts, but people make facts meaningful, and analysts» ideologies shape the meanings they assign to social statistics.»

As education researcher Stephen Raudenbush of the University of Chicago — who I will proudly claim as a sociologist and former colleague — asks in the March 2015 issue of Educational Researcher, «Does the answer to a precisely focused research question, by itself, have implications for practical action?»

As sociologist Aaron Pallas wrote in October 2010, «by definition, the value - added component of the D.C. IMPACT evaluation system defines 50 percent of all teachers in grades four through eight as ineffective or minimally effective in influencing their students» learning.»

Teachers, as sociologist Dan Lortie once observed, undergo an «apprenticeship of observation» for 13 years as students — a phenomenon without parallel in any other field.

Stereotyped as violent, intransigent fundamentalists, the people of Yesha, as sociologist Selengut, who has studied them for many years, demonstrates, show a broad range of ideas about how their bedrock conviction that Jews are duty - bound to occupy the land God gave them should be realized.

Experts on the sociology and welfare of companion animals such as sociologists, psychologists, educators and anthrozoologists.

All these aberrations of the body are probably generated by the contradictions of «meridian thought», as sociologist Franco Cassano calls it, faced with global economy.

There are some people who are fundamentally communitarian, as sociologists call them, people who want to give a group hug and see common solutions to a single problem.