Sentences with phrase «as sociologists call»

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.

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Alternatively, many sociologists predicted that, with the increasing emphasis on individualism and the therapeutic in American culture, religion would have an increasingly marginal influence on domestic life, and the traditional family as the 1950s knew it would gradually disappear in the face of «family modernization,» as some theorists called it.

These are to be distinguished from fraudulent pretenders to the title such as Colonel Qaddafi's Popular Democratic Republic, the so - called Democratic Republics of the old USSR, etc.) The sociologist Peter Berger, against his own earlier predilections, has shown in The Capitalist Revolution that among all existing nations capitalism is a necessary (but not sufficient) condition for democracy.

To be sure, the ULCA at that time was very much an American institution, and as such it partook of American normality (which, much later, as a sociologist, I would call the «OK world» of middle - class America).

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.»

As Willer points out, whether one calls it gossip or «reputational information sharing,» as sociologists and psychologists do, this behavior, along with ostracism, seems fundamental to human naturAs Willer points out, whether one calls it gossip or «reputational information sharing,» as sociologists and psychologists do, this behavior, along with ostracism, seems fundamental to human naturas sociologists and psychologists do, this behavior, along with ostracism, seems fundamental to human nature.

[7] As the late sociologist James S. Coleman pointed out, [8] large school size often leads to student alienation from the school and strong affiliation with what he called «the adolescent society.»

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.

Also called stereotyping or the labeling theory, this originated with sociologists (such as Edwin Lemert, Howard Becker, Albert Memmi, and Erving Goffman) in the 1960s and is based on the idea that individuals form their identity through interactions with other people.

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.

The notion of love as passion, so much at the core of Surrealism, has evolved with the sociological changes of intimacy toward a tension between romantic love versus marriage and the attempt to build a new form of relationship based on a more egalitarian exchange, that we could call «amour convergent» or «pure relationship», thanks to the battles of feminism and new intimacy, as discussed in «The Transformation of intimacy» from sociologist Anthony Giddens.

Green consumption became what sociologists call «positional consumption» — consumption that distinguishes one as elite — and few things were more ecopositional than the Toyota Prius, whose advantage over other hybrid cars was its distinctive look.