Sentences with phrase «as social scientists»

I think we need to keep trying our best, as social scientists, to make sure people can accurately see how various romantic patterns can bend the whole curve of their future possibilities in life.

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.

As social scientists, we would prefer that practitioners rigidly adhere to the convention of treating all non-significant findings as null or essentially 0, regardless of whether they are positive or negative in their direction, but we also eschew utopianism.

Medical researchers face similar issues, but not necessarily to the same degree as social scientists.

Non-cognitive skills, as social scientists call them (the rest of us call them personality traits)-- persistence, grit, curiosity, self - control, delayed gratification, conscientiousness — play a crucial role in life's outcomes.

As social scientists assist pastor and people in developing a rich fund of the stories, traditions, world views, character, symbols, and rituals of a congregation, chances for God's Word impacting the congregation in profound ways are greatly enhanced.

Although he carefully denied (as social scientists do) that he was making predictions, he wrote that «we may expect these gradual changes in population composition to encourage many, or most, of the following developments.»

But as any social scientist worth their salt will tell you, happiness is a state, not a trait, which means the confluence of conditions necessary to sustain it are ever - changing.

With his academic background as social scientist, he is passionate about new trends in urban affairs and the creative labor market, two things which are perfectly combined in the concept of coworking.

As social scientist Arthur Brooks has documented, religious people give far more to all manner of do - gooding than do secular people.

What interests me as a social scientist is this strategy of creating social capital.

As a social scientist, I also question the assertion that fundamentalism arises or gains prominence in times of crisis, actual or perceived.

This reviewer should point out that Berger acknowledges that the book was written over a period of two years «in moments snatched from other busy activities as a social scientist.»

As a social scientist Berger avoids taking the position that religion is an irreducible reality sui generis (i.e., in a class all its own), as does someone like Ninian Smart, the popular professor of comparative religions, in his book The Science of Religion and the Sociology of Knowledge (1973).

She does not tell us whether she has come to identify fully with this version of Christianity, but she makes clear that in this book she writes as a social scientist who in this role can not make statements about the ultimate validity of the Evangelical experience of God.

They just wanted to get some of the new money, I thought, whereas I was approaching the issue administratively, and as a social scientist.

Changing one's mind as a social scientist is both an occupational hazard and a point of professional honor.

«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.»

Knowledge brokering is different in that it creates «an ongoing dialogue and exchange» between researchers and stakeholders, explains Christine Knight, a policy research fellow at the Economic and Social Research Council Genomics Policy and Research Forum in Edinburgh, U.K. Knight works as a knowledge broker — among genomics researchers, social scientists, and policy makers — and as a social scientist studying knowledge brokering roles in the United Kingdom.

«For example a designer works in a different way to how I, as a social scientist, would work and both are different again to the way a computer scientist works.

As social scientist George Ansalone reported in 2003, «The practice of tracking is entrenched in the philosophy of American education and is practiced in 60 percent of all primary and 80 percent of all secondary [public] schools in the United States.»

Hirschman, as a social scientist, wanted us to consider the interplay between them.

As social scientist Yuval Levin has argued, this enables the system to «channel social knowledge from the bottom up rather than... impose technical knowledge from the top down.»

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.

Barnett has taught in an urban high school, worked as a social scientist at the RAND Corporation, led policy initiatives at a state education agency, and served as a professor of education.

I read a lot professionally, so when I read for pleasure, I want to detach from work or other external responsibilities (I should note that as a social scientist and a critic I'm never fully detached from what I do for work or professionally, but there's still a difference in intent that is important when it comes to reading).

As social scientist Timur Kuran noted in his 1995 book Private Truths, Public Lies, there are all sorts of reasons, good and bad, that lead people not to show how they truly feel.

As a social scientist, I am interested in this perspective.

So to the extent that you are trying to criticize my argument based on the field from which I write, you should know that I approach these things, not as a law professor, but rather as a social scientist with fairly heavy training in statistics.

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.»

As a social scientist, though, the first thing I want to know is this: Based on the best available science, do marriage and relationship education programs work?

Not exact matches

Maybe the clearest and most dystopian glimpse of where all of this is headed comes courtesy of Tim Hwang, who breeds artificially intelligent «socialbots» as co-founder and chief scientist of the Orwellian - sounding Pacific Social Architecting Corporation.

Using the streets of Paris as their laboratory, the social scientists tested how environmental cues affect people's generosity.

The research threw up a concept known as homophily — a word invented by social scientists to describe the sociological phenomenon in which people are most drawn to others resembling themselves.

Levitt has worked tirelessly to build development studies as a multi-disciplinary field of scholarly endeavour, in which development economics plays an essential role but must be complemented by essential contributions from other social scientists and historians.

They include structural differences in the skeleton, the muscles, the skin, and the brain; differences in posture as - 0sociated with a unique method of locomotion; differences in social or - ganization; and finally the acquisition of speech and tool - using, together with the dramatic increase in intellectual ability which has led scientists to name their own species Ho - m - o sapiens sapiens — wise wise man.

«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.

A number of other prominent social scientists, including Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Nathan Glazer, and Daniel Bell, also began to identify themselves with the nascent neoconservative movement during the 1970s, as did Neuhaus, one of his close friends.

One thing is clear: this research should be monitored by informed nonscientists as well as scientists for its theological, ethical, social and legal implications.

Ethically, we are in an age in which there is grave doubt among theologians, philosophers, jurists and social scientists as to whether any universal principles exist which can be reliably known and used by the international community to define torture or terrorism as fundamentally wrong.

Too often the church goes to the social scientists who can describe communities and who may be very helpful to Christians as they think about society but who, because of their analytic language, can not create or reinforce community.

My own view of all of this, as a practicing social scientist interested in the relationship between religious faith and empirical science, is that the general perspective taken by Evans - Pritchard, Douglas, and the Turners is not only entirely reasonable but close to the best account we might give.

One appropriate response for the religious liberal, as for the social scientist, is to inquire very closely just what sort of past we are being asked to return to.

One social scientist indirectly concluded as much when he described Lutherans as «indistinct,» «hard to identify,» «unobtrusive,» as well as «on the fringe.»

Economists and social scientists such as Gary Becker, Linda Waite, Steven Nock and Robert Michaels are uncovering once again the economic and health benefits of marriage and demonstrating what kinfolk such as grandparents, uncles and aunts contribute both to marriage and to the children born to marriages.

Gods will is for us humans today to evolved to a level of conciousness that will prepare us for the challenges of our future survival, Scientists now predicts of hardships in the future due to over population and changes to the natural environment.and that is happening now with activists through out the world are reminding us of protecting nature.That is why we need a phsychological revolution to hasten the evolution of consciousness that will address the problems.Ideological and philosophical enlightenment had the past great minds to develop ideas and belief because God sent them to reality in their times.Abraham, Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, and many other religious leaders to teach humanity the doctrines that God willed to be appropriate and applicable in those periods of their existence, Also great philosophers in another dimension of social involvement were born to interprete and connect philosophically as the second element of our conscience, Kant, Marx and countless of them also were born.To complete the triangular structure or dimension of our conscience is knowledge.

However, the major problem with this is, as smart as Richard Dawkins may be, he's not some super social scientist (based on my interactions with scientists, and I am one, we're not the most socially blessed people around), and the reaction to such acts from non-atheists are probably hurting the cause more than anything.

This assertion is not meant to imply that religion is either false or ultimately nothing more than the fabrication of human minds — indeed, Berger argues in other writings that the transcendent seems to break through humanly constructed worlds, as it were, from the outside, However, the social scientist must recognize the degree to which religion, like all symbol systems, involves human activity.

For the open - minded among the social scientists, Girard's work can serve as a gateway for the introduction of Kierkegaardian insights into social scientific thinking, which will always remain woefully incomplete as long as it functions without reference to religious transcendence.

In a recent paper Rogers defines a person as a fluid process and potentiality «in rather sharp contrast to the relatively fixed, measurable, diagnosable, predictable concept of the person which is accepted by psychologists and other social scientists to judge by their writings and working operations.»