Sentences with phrase «as sociologists say»

Not exact matches

Distinguished sociologist Peter Berger defends what he regards as American civil religion, the first commandment of which is (he says) «Thou shalt be tolerant!»

«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.

George Bernard Shaw Peter L. Berger, the most eminent sociologist of religion in the world today, many of whose sociological works as Berger says «read like a treatise on atheism,» has written a mature and skeptical affirmation of Christianity in his new book Questions of Faith: A...

«Festivals and pilgrimages,» I have said in another context, «are outstanding occasions, for here we find a close interrelation between different cultic activities such as purifications, lustrations, prayer, vows, offerings, sacrifices, and processions all of which are of particular interest both to the historian and the sociologist of religion» (Sociology of Religion, p. 42).

Of the pain that this necessarily entails we shall speak later; here let it be said that it is erroneous to assume, as have some careless theologians and sociologists among others, that human wrong is located in self - concern.

REVEAL Revisited: One sociologist says Willow Creek's research may not be as revealing as we think.

It may be said, speaking in very general terms, that in asserting the zoological nature of the Noosphere we confirm the sociologists» view of human institutions as organic.

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.

As a sociologist, I can not say that such a figure is impossible; I can say that it is unlikely.

I would go so far as to say, with sociologist Christian Smith, that «theological liberalism is not one particular branch of Christianity; it is rather actually a very different religion from Christianity.»

As sociologist Robert Bellah said: «Each individual must work out their own ultimate solutions and the most the church can do is to provide a favorable environment for doing so, without imposing on him a prefabricated set of answers.»

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.

Regnerus (the same sociologist behind a controversial study of how children of same - sex couples fare) says cheap sex — sex with little cost as far as time or emotional investment — is behind a host of societal ills, from fewer people marrying to the rise of unmarriageable men to more people living together to more children being born outside of marriage — you get the idea.

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.

Social infrastructure is just as important, says sociologist Robert Sampson

The trouble with most surveys, however, is that they do not address confounding factors, such as a skyrocketing divorce rate, which could mask the effects of income on happiness, says Glenn Firebaugh, a sociologist at Pennsylvania State University in University Park.

«No experiment is decisive in the way that Eddington's experiment was presented as being decisive,» says Harry Collins, a sociologist of science at Cardiff University in Wales.

As Eric Klinenberg, Sociologist at NYU and author of the book Going Solo, says, «There's so much cultural anxiety about isolation in our country that we often fail to appreciate the benefits of solitude.»

While hesitation to use Tinder might stem from negative preconceived notions, we've actually proven that singles will find just as much, if not more, success using dating apps than dating solely offline,» said Dr. Jess Carbino, Tinder Sociologist.

In graduate school, then, he took an entirely different direction: «I decided to go back to school, either in physical chemistry, which I had especially enjoyed as an undergraduate, or in social psychology, which I had come to be interested in [while] taking an evening course at the University of Rochester,» Coleman said in an interview with the sociologist Richard Swedberg.

In his 1975 book Schoolteacher, sociologist Dan Lortie explained that teachers have had little say over policy because, as a group, they do not believe they possess specialized technical knowledge out of the reach of nonexperts.

«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.

As she once said to me, social scientific portraiture was the way that she learned how to do the work of a sociologist, and her commitment to asserting the artful rigor of this research methodology has forever changed my expectations of social scientific research.

«What is clear is when you choose a charter, you're getting a certain demographic as your child's peers,» says Roslyn Mickelson, a University of North Carolina, Charlotte sociologist.

Pedro Noguera, an urban sociologist and professor at New York University, said there are lessons to be learned from Klein and Rhee's tenures about the limitations of mayoral control and the mistake of seeing it as a panacea.

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.

(I am sure sociologists and anthropologists would have much to say about the fluidity of notions such as «heritage», «religion», «culture» and the difficulty of categorizing the elements of these concepts, as I am sure defining what an «overt» symbol is will create more problems than it seeks to solve).

Another expert on fatherhood, sociologist Tim Biblarz of the University of Southern California - Los Angeles, says the evidence shows economics plays a significant role in the risk for negative outcomes, such as poorer grades and lower educational attainment, substance abuse or poor social adjustment.