Sentences with phrase «as sociological»

The study of law from non-legal or non-black-letter perspectives can usefully be divided into those that treat data derived from experiments and surveys (such as sociological studies of legal systems, or psychological studies of juries), and those look to the written word for evidence, the latter covering the vast majority of what is conventionally considered «legal scholarship».

These alarmist predictions are becoming quite bizarre, and could be dismissed as sociological oddities, if it weren't for the fact that they get such big play in the media.

As a sociological observation, there's no problem at all with pointing that out.

I've got no problem with people quoting it as a sociological fact, with the same lack of implication about the truth of climate change.

In 2050, people may study «climate change» as a sociological phenomenon, not as a scientific phenomenon.

His 1973 show entitled The Troubles: An Artist's Document of Ulster introduced the concept of art as a sociological tool.

Whose Studio (2014), for example, reenvisions Gustave Courbet's critique of French society, The Painter's Studio (1854 — 55), as a sociological study of Chinese citizenry.

At a time when it was commonly thought that using race as a subject identified a work as sociological rather than aesthetic, many wondered if artists, especially African American artists, could remain dispassionate in the face of the brutal events of the early»60s.

In the case of «Sex with Strangers» pornography masquerades as a sociological study and in so doing reveals a range of political, psychological, and comical implications; in the case of «The Celestial Handbook» an amateur's attempt at scientific astronomy ends up revealing the poetic inadequacy of depicting and describing the cosmos.

At Columbia, Paul Lazarsfeld (top) and Robert Merton «spotted Jim as a sociological talent within months after he came to the department.»

Robert Merton, a professor and mentor of Coleman's at Columbia, gave this account of his arrival at the university: «So far as an episodic memory allows me to say, Paul Lazarsfeld and I spotted Jim as a sociological talent within months after he came to the department.

Intended as a celebration of small - town values and hospitality as well as a sociological panorama a la Robert Altman's Nashville — its clearest influence as it builds to a musical performance celebrating the town's sesquicentennial and independence — True Stories walks a fine line between stylized ethnography and flat - out regional caricature.

With clips and critical commentary on westerns from John Ford's Stagecoach through the work of Arthur Penn, Sam Peckinpah, and Clint Eastwood, the program traces the aesthetic evolution of the genre as well as its sociological importance.

The central problem of the picture has a lot to do with the idea that Cronenberg has again taken a pre-existing script and reordered it along distinctly Cronenbergian lines — that what must have read initially as a sociological text on another facet of the immigrant experience (much like screenwriter Steve Knight's Dirty Pretty Things) now plays like one of Cronenberg's investigations into the difficulty of parsing concepts like «normal» and «family» in the crushing crucible of bugs pretending to be human among humans.

In that name, we ought to explore young lady dating and its impact on an online dating strength and as a sociological factor.

Still, it is hard to deny that the series is fascinating as a sociological case study.

Thus, quite typically, discussions of «societies» by process thinkers are quite different from common sense usage of the word as well as sociological definitions, and usually do not refer to human societies.

The pressures due to globalization may lead to religious conflicts if the religious groups behave primarily as sociological.

(«The apostles who proclaim the word may be regarded merely as figures of past history, and the Church as a sociological phenomenon, whose history forms part of the history of religion.

These notions, as sociological study made clear, also brought with them the legitimacy of an absolutist economic and political orthodoxy.

At any rate, Tonnies, who first coined the word «Gemeinschaft» as a sociological category, used the term in both a descriptive and a critical sense.

Not only the leadership, but the rationale and philosophies of the reinforced family, the supporting community, the corrective living experience, come through with theological as well as sociological bases in these programs.

This assumption is common among highly intelligent people, like Weinberg, who haven't thought much about the history and character of Christianity except as a sociological or psychological phenomenon.

His criticism did not focus directly on liberation theology itself, but on the philosophical Marxism it employs as a sociological tool.

Dr. Greg Graffin's PHD thesis found that the overwhelming majority of evolutionary biologists see no conflict between religion and science — so long as religion is recognized solely as a sociological adaptation.

This chapter proposes that the horizons of political theology should be so broadened that it can be formulated as an ecological theology rather than as a sociological theology.

Greeley dedicates the present book to Tracy, offering it as sociological support for Tracy's argument.

They find there to be no conflict between religion and science — so long as religion is recognized solely as a sociological adaptation.

Dr. Greg Graffin's PHD thesis found that the overwhelming majority of the world's eminent evolutionary biologists find no conflict between religion and science — so long as religion is recognized solely as a sociological adaptation.

Not exact matches

One of Michel Maffesoli's sociological criterion for a tribe is ethnocentricity which is best explained, in the business context, as an «Us vs. Them» mentality.

That was never a real concern, as long as immigrants assimilate, and it no longer lies in the mouths of Europeans, struggling with a minority of indigestible and militant Muslims who occupy vast no - go areas across Europe, to comment on the relatively manageable sociological problems of America.

Pantone also claims that its choice was inspired by sociological trends — most notably «a gender blur as it relates to fashion» among younger generations, according to Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute.

As a 2006 study in the American Sociological Review found, the number of close confidantes a typical individual has shrank by a third between 1985 and 2006, to about two from three.

The fact that the bag is proudly toted by high school students (as a stylish backpack alternative) and senior citizens alike would seem to point to something of a sociological anomaly.

As I wrote earlier this year, there are a variety of sociological, psychological and other forces that thwart our best - laid plans to put our financial houses in order.

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.

Every four years, the General Social Survey (GSS)-- often regarded as the single best source for sociological and attitudinal trend data in the United States — asks respondents if they were laid off in the previous year.

«There are psychological and sociological factors as well.

Knowledge of economic history is critical for good policy making because, as valuable as it is to understand models and theories, in real life policies have to be made in societies that are complex and have political and sociological considerations to take into account.

François, who belatedly wakes up to the new realities, sees the revival of social conservatism as not merely a sociological phenomenon, but as the beginning of a second intellectual victory for the right (the first was the victory of neoliberal economics).

Becuase of this, sociological evolution is slowly but inorexably dimishing the importance of these types of spiritualities as humanity begins to knit together a globally cooperative identi / ty.

«The roothas been sociological factors — as family breakdown has increased and children are split between their mothers and fathers at weekends, regular Church attendance is less consistent and is having an impact.

Insofar as a church's identity is consciously fashioned in response to a sociological imperative, it is not likely to be enduring or persuasive anyway.

Sociological theorists such as Amitai Etzioni break holidays into «recommitment holidays» and «tension management» holidays.

This is NOT to say the resurrection did or did not happen, it is to say with Troeltsch, that the resurrection is not a «historical» fact in the sense that it is not possible for historians to consider it — just as a supernova would not be a biological or sociological «fact» because it is outside their scope, don't mean novae don't happen!

As a result, clergy are often more adept at giving sociological accounts of church life than they are at helping their congregations appreciate that it is the presence of God that makes their life possible.

I have to admit I'd read allot of the arguments (I find allot of these movement relationship dynamics fascinating from a sociological and psychological perspective as well as having endured my own share of toxic faith communities that have left me with a perverse fascination with researching what is going on).

It was not in our modern sense of sociological utopianism; but it was something vastly profounder, a religious ethic which involved a social as well as a personal application, but within the framework of the beloved society of the Kingdom of God.

In a recent article for Christianity Today, Ed Stetzer offers some sociological analysis as to why Pentecostals continue to experience growth despite trends of decline or stagnation among many forms of Christianity.

Let me point out first that, as a piece of sociological analysis, the above is sadly wanting.