Sentences with phrase «good sociologist»

Would you make a good Sociologist?

«Any good sociologist will tell you for every [case] that becomes a scandal, there's probably... 10 to 20» others that go undetected.

Even if it were possible to draw together the best scientific minds (and perhaps even the best sociologists and programmers too), would it even be desirable?

Not exact matches

... in 2015, University of Toronto sociologist Melissa Milkie published a study showing that the amount of time children aged 3 to 11 spent with parents had no measurable impact on their emotional well - being, behavior, or academic success.

In fact there is, according to Christine Carter, a sociologist and happiness expert at UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center.

Writing on the Greater Good Science Center blog recently, sociologist and positive psychology expert Christine Carter made much the same case, writing that the secret to accomplishing more is to stop doing everything you dislike doing.

Between the late Middle Ages and the 20th century, homicide reduced drastically in societies, which sociologist Norbert Elias noted is best seen in European countries, in which there was «the consolidation of a patchwork of feudal territories into large kingdoms with centralized authority and an infrastructure of commerce,» Pinker said.

Yes, answers Christine Carter, a sociologist, author, and positive psychology expert at UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center, in a recent Washington Post op - ed.

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

Rallying together makes us feel less alone in the experience, explained the sociologist Christine Carter, a fellow at the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley.

Glen Elder, the sociologist at the University of North Carolina, who's done field work in Baltimore, said, «At a lower level of skill, if you lose a job and don't have fathers or brothers with jobs — if you don't have a good social network — you get drawn back into the street.

Consciously or unconsciously, the movement also validates an insight which sociologists confirm: The best predictor of whether a child will remain religious as an adult is not the religiosity of the mother — for children tend to take that for granted — but of the father, because he is not expected to be religious.

After all, «Good people go to heaven after they die» is one of the tenets of Moralistic Therapeutic Deism that sociologist Christian Smith identified in his omnibus study of religious youth in America (Soul Searching).

Having witnessed this scene, I can well believe German sociologist Christine Swientek's account of another well - intentioned pastor's ineptness.

Increasingly, denominations are loose coalitions, but the one thing they do best, as sociologist Nancy Ammerman has observed, is to behave like denominations.

In the winter of 1954, Will Herberg, the best untrained sociologist in America, turned his attention to the sociology of American religion.

And this is something Berger the theologian, as well as Berger the sociologist, is unwilling to do.69

When sociologist Orrin Klapp, in 1962, categorized the five most popular American social types, he included among «winners» giants of intellect as well as exemplars of brawny physique (Heroes, Villains, Fools: The Changing American Character [Prentice - Hall], chapter 1).

Anthropologists, psychologists, and sociologists, especially those who study folklore and oral traditions, have done much good work in classifying such stages, all the way from the most primitive animism to the most sophisticated philosophical monotheism.

the preoccupation of the psychologist with purely human behavior, its description, and development; the preoccupation of the sociologist and cultural anthropologist with the forms and development of society, make these mental health professionals unable to define the function of the churchman, though their professions may well be of immense importance in providing information when the clergyman thinks through his unique and necessary role as pastor to persons.

There can be some doubt as to how the work of the special sociologist of religion should be organized, that is, in which order he would proceed best.

The growth and decline of specifically religious organizations and groups is a theme of the greatest importance to the sociologist as well as to the historian of religion.

The idea of plausibility structures has provided sociologists with their best entrée to the study of religion within the perspective outlined by Peter Berger.

There has been much discussion whether the sociologist of religion is right in viewing his material from a special point of view and handling it according to a special method, or whether he has a more or less well - circumscribed field which he can call his own.

The two cultures, she proposes, are best understood in terms of an «ethics gap,» and here she draws upon and reinforces the important work of sociologist James Davison Hunter, whose writings have done so much to give empirical substance to the culture war metaphor.

There emerge types of religious leaders — whose lives the historian has illumined, whose intellectual and emotional makeup the psychologist has investigated, and whose social role the sociologist has explored — as well as types of religious groupings and religious institutions.

Sociologist Julie Phillips has documented how from 2000 to 2005, suicide rates among less - educated middle - aged men increased between 12 percent and 30 percent even as they remained stable for better - educated men.

Sociologist and researcher Sherry Turkle says so well, «Who said that a life without conflict, without dealing with the past, or without rubbing up against the troublesome people is better?»

This contrasts with the climate of American public schooling as described by sociologist Anthony Bryk et al. in Catholic Schools and the Common Good (1993, 2009): «Mirroring the spiritual vacuum at the heart of contemporary American society, schools now enculturate this emptiness in our children....

To better appreciate the nature of the enterprise that Kurzweil and Leibowitz engage in as Orthodox intellectual cranks it would be useful to consider the categories employed by sociologist Peter Berger, the leading academic analyst of the modernization process.

He provides personal background which informs this choice, then outlines his case using insights from other sociologists as well as social commentators.

His careful suggestions open up fresh understandings for the religious practitioner as well as the sociologist.

He provides some personal background which informs this choice, then outlines his case using insights from other sociologists as well as social commentators.

the «fantastical» — may well be that they are trying to shield themselves from the devastating criticism of sociologists and political philosophers, who point out the sociocultural rootage and relativity of many of our religious symbols.

A good deal of the material out of New York, Geneva, and the denominational headquarters on the church and ministry reflects this promising line, and a good many religious sociologists and radical religious leaders on the race issue tend to use Bonhoeffer and religionlessness in this way.

Thus they urge historians of religions to concentrate more on the historical, phenomenological, and institutional aspects of religions, depending heavily on the co-operation and assistance of anthropologists, sociologists, philologists, and universal as well as regional historians.

That volume, along with four other notable books written in a burst of creative energy while he was still in his thirties — The Noise of Solemn Assemblies (1961), Invitation to Sociology (1963), The Sacred Canopy (1967), A Rumor of Angels (1969)-- made him the best - known sociologist of his era.

Sociologists have been suggesting for several years now that pornography stunts emotional and psychological well - being, a conclusion to which Time magazine devoted an entire recent cover.

Historians and sociologists have good reason for being skeptical that such a major change is imminent, and they are correct in questioning whether Jewish population surveys have much predictive value.

In between; most of my work as a sociologist was directly concerned not with religion but with modernization and Third World development, as well as with the problem (which first preoccupied me in the Third World) of how sociological insights can be translated into compassionate political strategies.

Robert Wuthnow, sociologist of religion at Princeton University, has studied stewardship in the church and discovered that preachers do a good job of promoting stewardship.

I am (a) A gifted psychologist (b) A well respected geneticist (c) A highly educated sociologist (d) A Christian with the remarkable ability to ignore inconvenient facts.

Sociologists also deal with such topics as the components of culture, i.e., beliefs, values, language, and norms; cultural dynamics; cultural integration; cultural change; ideal culture, what people profess to follow, and real culture, how people actually behave in relation to these claims; ethnocentrism, the proclivity to see one's culture as the best and consequently all others as inferior; and cultural relativity.

The jury also included experts such as Laura Esquivel, author of the best - seller Like Water for Chocolate, the Basque writer Kirmen Uribe, Cristina Franchini, expert in international law, the rural sociologist Matthew Goldfarb and María Fernanda di Giacobbe, winner of the Basque Culinary World Prize 2016.

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.»

«The Poverty Clinic,» [PDF] March 21, 2011 «In the view of Burke and the researchers she has been following, many of the problems that we think of as social issues — and therefore the province of economists and sociologists — might better be addressed on the molecular level.»

Sociologists Tristan Bridges and Melody L. Boyd note that what used to make a man marriage material is changing — it's not just education and jobs (although, yes, women generally want a husband who makes a good salary, and for many lower - socioeconomic women, that's essential).

According to sociologist and author Pepper Schwartz, 53 percent of U.S. women aged 18 an older are single and many may stay that way for good.

Heterosexual marriage, especially among white, educated and well - off couples, is still a gendered social reality and a gendered institution, or so argue sociologists Karyn Loscocco and Susan Walzer in Gender and the Culture of Heterosexual Marriage in the United States.

Unfortunately, Darren Sherkat, a sociologist at Southern Illinois University, found that marriages between people of the same religious beliefs tended to have a better chance of lasting than interfaith marriages.