Sentences with phrase «as a sociologist who»

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

As a sociologist who frequently works in schools, Kimberly Moss - Dobbins has seen many children who could use a little extra attention after the dismissal bell has rung.

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According to the sociologist Harriet B. Presser, as of 2003, two - fifths of American workers were working non-standard hours — «in the evening, at night, on a rotating shift, or during the weekend» — and she wasn't counting those who bring their work home and do it on their off - hours, or who are self - employed.»

«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.

Most Wiccans identify as witches, and they form the largest branch of the burgeoning neo-pagan movement, said Helen A. Berger, a sociologist who specializes in the study of contemporary Paganism and witchcraft at Brandeis University.

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.»

Two strains run through the Bible, both important to the sociologist or historian who wants to know how people react to circumstances and why they react as they do.

I don't know about you, but I would believe the people who study the human mind, thoughts, and behavior (i.e. psychologists and sociologists), over someone who says there's some spooky external agent that no one can possibly verify the existence of, and which has no consistent pattern of action with which to use as evidence for verification.

Its development doubtless reflects the cognitive dissonance, as the sociologists would say, of those who long denied that the Cold War had much to do with anything except Harry Truman's crusty temper.

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.

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.

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.

The risk was that he chose Darren E. Sherkat, a sociologist at Southern Illinois University whom Regnerus would later describe (without fear of contradiction) as someone «who has long harbored negative sentiment about me.»

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.

John Sugden, an English sociologist who pioneered the «twinning» concept 25 years earlier with a mixed - faith soccer team in Belfast during the height of the Troubles and who is now the director of Football 4 Peace, doing in the Middle East with soccer what PPI does with basketball, puts it both wryly and well: «It's not as if you can sprinkle the pixie dust of sport and everything's going to be fine.»

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.

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.

The Globe article quoted Dr. Murray Straus, a sociologist at the University of New Hampshire who studies the effects of corporal punishment on kids, as saying that people think that spanking will work when nothing else does.

''... in a new Council on Contemporary Families briefing paper, the sociologists Margaret Usdansky and Rachel A. Gordon report that among mothers of young children, those who were not working and preferred not to have a job had a relatively low risk of depression — about as low as mothers who chose to work and were able to attain high - quality jobs.

And in a 2000 study, sociologist Martin found that college - educated women who put off motherhood until their 30s are suddenly having families almost as big as everyone else's.

Those who coordinate such projects have to be able to speak to medical people, epidemiologists, statisticians, economists, and sociologists as well as administrators and data security personnel and be able to understand their different concepts and principles.

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Social network analysis has its theoretical roots in the work of early sociologists such as Georg Simmel and Émile Durkheim, who wrote about the Social Psychology Links: Prejudice, Persuasion, Conflict, Romance, and Many Other Topics

«As I write this book, I'm not writing it for sociologists or for a battle to see who understands x theory better,» he says.

We asked Carrie James, a sociologist at the Harvard Graduate School of Education who explores connections between young people's digital, moral, and civic lives, to share perspectives on the Carter / Roy case, as well as takeaways for parents and educators.

We'll leave the argument for prisons to sociologists and political activists, though it was early education reformer Horace Mann who noted, «Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.»

My mind was really opened when I went to Harvard College and had the opportunity to study under individuals — such as psychoanalyst Erik Erikson, sociologist David Riesman, and cognitive psychologist Jerome Bruner — who were creating knowledge about human beings.

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.

Roger Hart, a sociologist for UNICEF who developed the original Ladder of Children's Participation in 1994, identified the first three rungs as representing forms of non-participation.

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, 2001).

Not someone who has ever worked in publishing, who knows what publishers do behind the scenes, or what the issues are, or how the distribution works, or what the boots - on - the - ground challenges are, or how the industry is changing, or what publishers do to help authors build long term careers, or the differences between large and small presses, or the history of returnable books or what it's like to work with major distributors such as Amazon... a sociologist, armed with some numbers.»

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.

He interviewed sociologist Nickie Charles who has carried out research into pets as kin.

This group of portraits includes well - known figures such as playwright, actress, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr.; the community activist Mercedes Arroyo; and the widely published academic Harold Cruse; alongside more anonymous individuals of a nurse, a ballet dancer, a taxi driver, a businessman, and a local kid who ran errands for Neel.

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.

This group of portraits includes well - known figures such as playwright, actress, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr.; the community activist Mercedes Arroyo; and the widely published academic Harold Cruse; alongside more anonymous individuals of a nurse, a ballet dancer, a taxi driver, a businessman, a local kid who ran errands for Neel, and other children and their families.

Alice Neel, Uptown features both well known figures such as playwright, actress and author Alice Childress; sociologist Horace R. Clayton Jr.; and community activist Mercedes Arroyo, as well as anonymous individuals like children, families, a taxi driver, a ballet dancer, a nurse and a boy who ran errands for Neels.

It includes essays by poets, artists, philosophers and sociologists: from civil rights figures such as the scholar and African - American activist W.E.B. Du Bois and the Trinidadian - American Stokely Carmichael; to writers including Gertrude Stein and Joan Retallack; from artists of different generations such as sound poet Hugo Ball (who wrote one of the founding Dada manifestos), Ad Reinhardt, Joan Jonas, William Pope.L and Felix Gonzalez - Torres; to new essays by curators Adrienne Edwards, Laura Hoptman, Susan Thompson, Jenny Schlenzka and the critic Tom McDonough.

As you know, I wrote about the «Be Worried» message last year and talked to a lot of sociologists who said anyone who hopes that message will galvanize sustained behavior changes should be very worried.

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.

@vigilantfish: «Although I am a historian and hence see sociologists as disciplinary parasites who have appropriated history's domain...»

@ Patrick B. Although I am a historian and hence see sociologists as disciplinary parasites who have appropriated history's domain to create a «science» of society, there have been valuable contributions by sociologists to our understanding of the history of science, notably in the work of Robert Merton.

A physicist is no more likely than a sociologist to know what human emissions will be 50 years from now — if a slight warming would be beneficial or harmful to humans or the natural world; if forcings and feedbacks will partly or completely offset the theoretical warming; if natural variability will exceed any discernible human effect; if secondary effects on weather will lead to more extreme or more mild weather events; if efforts to reduce emissions will be successful; who should reduce emissions, by what amounts, or when; and whether the costs of attempting to reduce emissions will exceed the benefits by an amount so large as to render the effort counterproductive.

Nika Kabiri is a sociologist who conducts research and leverages learnings from political science, economics, psychology, and sociology to understand what people go through as they navigate their legal issues.

The U.S. is presently the only country with enough lawyers, as well as journalists and sociologists who specialize in studying them, to have widely available data on salary structures at major law firms.

Indeed, most people who develop interests in S&M are older in age (20s to as old as 40s), and sociologists now believe that the practice is more an expression of a social role preference than a psychological pathology.3

Diane Vaughn, a sociologist and the author of Uncoupling (1986), provides a valuable insight into this apparent contradiction of emotional calamity and predictable emotional patterns: «Uncoupling is perceived by those who experience it as woefully chaotic and disorderly.

Also, the sociologist is used to help reincorporate people who feel left out of the community of workers, as well as to help define a role within the family, which has a different set of expectations now that the worker is in the home more.

In truth, published sociologists refer to the Millennials, in part, as the generation who «work to live».