Sentences with phrase «as a sociologist by»

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.

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Conceived in the 1960s by sociologists Eugene Weinstein and Paul Deutschberger, the method involves characterizing people as certain personality types in order to nudge them towards a specific behavior.

The piece looked at research done by Rutgers professor Keith Hampton, a Canadian sociologist, on whether technology really is causing separation between people, as the conventional wisdom goes.

«As they struggled to figure out what made a team successful, Rozovsky and her colleagues kept coming across research by psychologists and sociologists that focused on what are known as «group norms» - the traditions, behavioral standards, and unwritten rules that govern how teams function when they gather... Norms can be unspoken or openly acknowledged, but their influence is often profound.&raquAs they struggled to figure out what made a team successful, Rozovsky and her colleagues kept coming across research by psychologists and sociologists that focused on what are known as «group norms» - the traditions, behavioral standards, and unwritten rules that govern how teams function when they gather... Norms can be unspoken or openly acknowledged, but their influence is often profound.&raquas «group norms» - the traditions, behavioral standards, and unwritten rules that govern how teams function when they gather... Norms can be unspoken or openly acknowledged, but their influence is often profound.»

Moreover, it is now doubtful whether the efficient market hypothesis makes any kind of sense. Indeed, a great many economists and bankers have discovered Minskyâ $ ™ s views on financial fragility and his financial instability hypothesis, according to which banks and financial markets can not be left to themselves: we need regulations even though regulating markets may not succeed in avoiding another crisis once the memory of the current crisis has faded away.As told to me by a law student recently hired by Blackrock, the largest asset manager in the world, with assets totalling more than 3,500 billion dollars â $ «thatâ $ ™ s one and a half times larger than UBS and twice as large as PIMCO â $ «many asset managers are now turning away from hiring neoclassical economists and actually prefer hiring engineers, sociologists and even philosophers.

And some of us are troubled by the shallow reasoning that has dominated the political discussions surrounding this move, as though the threadbare idea of equality were enough to settle every question concerning the long - term destiny of mankind and as though the writings of the anthropologists (not to mention the poets, the philosophers, the theologians, the novelists, the sociologists) counted for nothing beside the slogans of Stonewall.

He frequently cites the work of Frank Furstenburg and Arlie Hochschild, two sociologists of family and gender relations whose views are by no means ideologically conservative, and he avoids value - loaded language, especially when it comes to describing the mainline Protestant churches whose leadership has, by and large, capitulated to the secular - elitist acceptance of extramarital sex, abortion, homosexuality, and other practices that conservative Christians view as inimical to moral life and family health.

«There is a small decline in church attendance over time, but not nearly as large as suggested in popular culture, or even by some social scientists,» said University of Nebraska - Lincoln sociologist Philip Schwadel, who conducted the study.

But to preclude the imposition of a priori evolutionary categories on the nature of religious belief, let us accept the definition of religion as given by the historians and sociologists of religion.

The department was proposed by Phil Zuckerman, a sociologist of religion, who describes himself as «culturally Jewish, but agnostic - atheist on questions of deep mystery.»

This contrasts with the climate of American public schooling as described by sociologist Anthony Bryk et al. in Catholic Schools and the Common Good (1993, 2009): «Mirroring the spiritual vacuum at the heart of contemporary American society, schools now enculturate this emptiness in our children....

Indeed, one of the failures in much contemporary explanation of human life — as, for example, by some of our modern secular sociologists — is precisely at this point.

Harvard sociologist Robert F. Bales has stated that the rate of alcoholism will tend to rise when a society by its attitude «positively suggests drinking to the individual as a means of relieving his inner tensions.»

One was the work of a sociologist, Earl Brewer, who, with the aid of a theologian and a ministries specialist, sought by an extensive content analysis of sermons and other addresses given in a rural and an urban church to differentiate the patterns of belief and value constituting those two parishes.67 The second was the inquiry of a religious educator, C. Ellis Nelson, who departed from a curricular definition of education to envision the congregation as a «primary society» whose integral culture conditions its young and old members.68 James Dittes, the third author, described more fully the nature of the culture encountered in the local church.

To better appreciate the nature of the enterprise that Kurzweil and Leibowitz engage in as Orthodox intellectual cranks it would be useful to consider the categories employed by sociologist Peter Berger, the leading academic analyst of the modernization process.

The acceleration of congregational studies in the last quarter century sprang in part from fresh and troubling inquiry by sociologists who probed the parish as a social organization.

Sociologists have spoken of the «privatizing» of religion in the West, by which they mean that religious adherence has become a leisure - time activity — some people go to church on a Sunday, other people go sailing or shopping Religion is seen as a personal choice and should not interfere with politics or business.

He has been reproached by sociologists for believing in the omnipotence of the scholarly analyst of the laboratory without ever having used the laboratory, and for explaining events as the function of «technical» expressions which hide reality from him in the same manner that the accounts of corporations are carefully edited and kept from the public by so - called «experts.»

Marsden concludes by reporting on sociologists David Riesman and Christopher Jencks's study of American higher education in the 1960s, which found that Protestant churches were «hardly consequential for the system as a whole.»

In fact, Kenward appears to accept French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's definition of cultural capital as «knowledge, skills, style and taste by which one class or social group dominated another.»

Two influential, non-Catholic figures immediately come to mind: sociologist Max Weber described a «Protestant work ethic» that explained the rise of capitalism and modernity on the basis of a disembodied understanding of salvation inherited from the Reformers; and systematic philosopher Georg Hegel hailed the Reformation, «the all - enlightening Sun,» as ushering in modern times by freeing «the specific and definite embodiment of Deity» from any «outward form» so that one may be reconciled to God «in faith and spiritual enjoyment.»

Her comment of Camille as a «tough woman» could not have come at a more interesting time, as I had just stumbled upon a study, «Black Marriage Through the Prism of Gender Race, and Class,» by Kecia R. Johnson, an assistant professor at Florida State University, and Karyn Loscocco, a sociologist at the University of Albany.

I have begun reading sociologist Eva Illouz's 2012 book Why Love Hurts and while I haven't gotten too far into it, and thus will likely have a lot more to say about, Illouz says the modern world, with its deregulated of marriage markets and freedom to choose one's own partner has, made the search for love an «agonizingly difficult experience» that leads to collective misery and disappointment, which is then internalized by people — especially women — as a personal failing.

A small amount, about 10 percent, however, see living together as an alternative to marriage, and a recent study by sociologist Alison Hatch, «Saying I Don't to Matrimony: An Investigation of Heterosexual Couples Who Resist Marriage,» is a revealing look at why couples prefer cohabitation over marriage.

As a sociologist, it is very important to me to create a home environment where our children are not chastised for using their imagination and establishing confidence in decision making by being included in relatively small, yet still pertinent decision - making from a young age.

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.

Vicki has been a speaker at numerous events, including the Women's Power Strategy Conference, the Capitol City Young Writers conference and the Writing Mamas monthly salon, and has been mentioned on «The View,» the Rush Limbaugh show, the podcast «The Bold and the Beautiful, The Young Turks, Australia's Daily Edition, Your Tango, Café Mom's The Stir, and by Calgary Herald columnist Stephen Hunt, sociologist Andrea Doucet, Madder Men cartoonist Rob Scott, dating expert Evan Marc Katz and websites such as Jezebel, The Good Men Project and Why No Kids.

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 advertiserAs 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 advertiseras the full - time under - labourers of advertisers.

The interdisciplinary study by data scientists Adam R. Pah and Luís Amaral and sociologist John L. Hagan reveals a persistent connection over time between unemployment and the occurrence of school shootings in the country as a whole, across various regions of the country and within affected cities, including Chicago and New York City.

New research led by a University of Georgia sociologist on the growth in the scope and scale of felony convictions finds that, as of 2010, 3 percent of the total U.S. population and 15 percent of the African - American male population have served time in prison.

According to a study conducted by sociologists at the University of Rovira i Virgili (Spain), there is a feminine way as well as a masculine way to behave on the Internet: males tend to directly allude to ethnic and cultural issues whereas females are less obvious in doing so.

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But some sociologists, such as Millsom Henry - Waring of the University of Melbourne, have given warning that electronic forms of communication in general — and digital - dating services in particular — are gradually changing society's conception of relationships and marriage for the worse by encouraging people to view partners as commodities that can simply be traded in for better versions at the click of a computer mouse.

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For example, some of the best research has focused on «family income» as a predictor of education success, but Susan Mayer, a University of Chicago sociologist, has shown that unexpected changes in family income by themselves have little effect on a child's educational performance.

As she points out in her book, quoting sociologist Viviana Zelizer, by the end of the 20th century, American children were «economically worthless but emotionally priceless.»

One study, conducted by a sociologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder and based on a national sample of teenagers, found that high - school students who have jobs are one - and - a-half times more likely than nonworkers to have committed criminal offenses and to have used alcohol, and are twice as likely as nonworkers to have used marijuana.

Dr. Braddock has received many honors for his work, including the James E. Blackwell Founders Award (for distinguished service and lifetime achievement) from the Association of Black Sociologists (2008), and an appointment as a Member of the National Research Policies and Priorities Board, U. S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement (appointed by Richard Riley, U. S. Secretary of Education 1995 - 1999, reappointed for six - year term 1999 - 2005).

This movement had been in the works since as far back as the notorious Coleman Report, a massive 1966 government study written by sociologist James Coleman, officially titled «Equality of Educational Opportunity.»

A recent analysis of census data by sociologists Sean Reardon of Stanford and Kendra Bischoff of Cornell highlighted how middle - income neighborhoods have been fading away as more people live in areas that are either poor or affluent.

A 2008 study by Harvard sociologist Robert Sampson concluded that growing up in a neighborhood of concentrated disadvantage has the same effect on a five - year - old's verbal ability as missing an entire year of school.

By 2012, however, the reverse was true, with the majority reporting they had little autonomy (U.S. Department of Education, 2015)-- and as research by the sociologist Richard Ingersoll has made crystal clear, teachers who experience lower levels of decision - making authority in their classes and schools are significantly less likely to stay in teaching as a career (Ingersoll, 2001By 2012, however, the reverse was true, with the majority reporting they had little autonomy (U.S. Department of Education, 2015)-- and as research by the sociologist Richard Ingersoll has made crystal clear, teachers who experience lower levels of decision - making authority in their classes and schools are significantly less likely to stay in teaching as a career (Ingersoll, 2001by the sociologist Richard Ingersoll has made crystal clear, teachers who experience lower levels of decision - making authority in their classes and schools are significantly less likely to stay in teaching as a career (Ingersoll, 2001).

In 2008, sociologists Douglas B. Downey, Paul T. von Hippel, Melanie Hughes decided to study just how different student test scores might be from learning outcomes as measured by other means, and how different measures might impact whether or not a school is classified as failing.

Sociologists Karl Alexander and Doris Entwisle (2007) point out that as this cycle continues for low - income children, these children are approximately 2.5 years behind their peers by the end of the fifth grade.

Their dialogue delves into the complicated notion of the Brazilian imaginary as espoused by sociologist Gilbreto Freire, who founded the museum in 1979 for which these artworks are named, as well as authored the seminal text Grande e Senzala (The Master and the Slaves), first published in 1933.

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.

Martial Raysse: Visages will be complemented by a publication featuring essays by curator and art historian Jane Livingston and sociologist Dr. Eduardo de la Fuente, as well as a specially commissioned poem by Leopoldine Core.

Schlingensief's Animatograph installation is framed by documentation material presenting the genesis and development of this installation, and complemented by a think tank that includes talks, screenings, live concerts, and performances by Swedish and international artists such as, among others, Tania Bruguera, The Errorists (Hilary Koob - Sassen and Andreas Köhler), Jeuno JE Kim and Ewa Einhorn, the independent theatre group Institutet, as well as renowned scholars like filmmaker - theorist Trinh T. Minh - ha and sociologist Saskia Sassen.

Lecture by Marie - Hélène Bourcier (queer activist, sociologist and Maître de conférences at Lille University III & Paris I, Researcher at the Ecole Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) re-examining works by artists such as Annie Sprinkle, Kara Walker, Nicole Eisenman and less known pansexual or queer young porn directors.

A publication, The Company She Keeps, a collection of conversations exploring ideas of friendship between Céline Condorelli and the philosopher Johan Hartle, as well as her friend the sociologist Avery Gordon, previously presented as part of the How To Work Together «Think Tank», edited by Nick Aikens and Polly Staple, was published by Book Works, Chisenhale Gallery and Van Abbemuseum in June 2014.