Sentences with phrase «history of social sciences»

The history of social sciences, certainly of economics, however, may not be quite so dubious as he portrays.

In 1972, eminent Harvard statistics professor Frederick Mosteller and Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote that the Coleman Report had «turned understanding of a major area of social policy upside down as perhaps no comparable event in the history of social science.»

The study, led by the sociologist James Coleman, was one of the most ambitious in the history of social science.

These policy explorations have been extraordinarily fruitful, yielding findings that are as clear and convincing as any in the history of social science.

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If you go to an Ivy League school, «there are prestigious companies that will take a chance on you even if you majored in classics or medieval history,» he writes, but «the problem is that while we need lots and lots of people with humanities and social science backgrounds, in today's increasingly anti-intellectual climate, majoring in philosophy is becoming a risk that fewer and fewer people can afford to take.»

While recipients come from a wide range of disciplines, including anthropology, fine arts, history, social justice, computer science, and mathematics, the selection criteria is a bit of a mystery.

«Social science tells us that people's experiences, people's demographics and people's histories come with them to decide questions of fact,» Aviram said.

We might note the obvious influence of Leo Strauss's Natural Right and History upon Bénéton's framing of modernity, but he works out the implications of historicist relativism and Weberian social science in ways that are more attuned to both the contemporary academy and to our day - to - day lives.

Though I don't want to let go of any insights from the social sciences, all this «nothing but» leaves me a bit edgy, and Lord Zealous has seized on my restlessness: There is a hint of a taunt behind her slightly glazed smile as she keeps reminding me that my community is devoted to scholarship; the history of religion.

This dual focus on reason and ethics similarly explains the close attention religious liberals have paid to the sciences — physics as a source for better cosmologies, and the biological and social sciences as a source for both ethics and philosophies of history.

Indeed, as Harnack correctly observed of historical study itself, history (and, we can now add, social science) must have the first word in theology but can not have the last.

Because Troeltsch, at the beginning of this century, was keenly aware of many trends that became apparent to most observers only at its end: the collapse of Eurocentrism; the perceived relativity of all historical events and knowledge (including scientific knowledge); an awareness that Christianity is relative to its Western, largely European history and environment; the emergence of a profound global pluralism; the central role of practice in theology; the growing impact of the social sciences on our view of the world and of ourselves; and dramatic changes in the role of religious institutions and religious thought.

The student is helped to acquire the aptitudes needed in order to do history or philosophy or a social science as aptitudes needed to inquire critically into the validity of Christian witness.

Perhaps the pressure of the guiding interest of theological inquiry will so shape theological engagement in history, philosophy, social sciences, etc., as to make the theological disciplines actual — that is, institutionalized in their own right.

An effort to analyze the authority of the ministry as this was exercised and recognized in the early and medieval Church and in the centuries immediately after the Reformation would lead us deep into social history and psychology, into theology and political science.

His analysis calls for reintegration of the history of science with social, economic and political history just as his philosophical proposals call for integration with current reasons for making science, technology and medicine more accessible and accountable.

The most urgent immediate task, therefore, is the development of education on the basis of the sciences, both natural and social, for only with their help can society as a whole be taught to construct a life completely in accordance with that knowledge which has become the factor by which our age is distinguished from all preceding periods of history.

The final result was the rejection within mainstream culture of biblical literalism with its repudiation of history, geology, and the scientific method, and an acceptance of the contributions of science, of evolution and Freudian psychology, of a «higher criticism» of the Bible, of the move from an agrarian economy to an industrial economy and its need for high technology, and of a rearrangement of political views to accommodate social planning and reform which became known in the churches as the Social Gsocial planning and reform which became known in the churches as the Social GSocial Gospel.

It is fundamental to any adequate understanding of Ricoeur to note that his phenomenology is so constructed as to be open to the «signs» generated by «counter-disciplines,» and indeed to read the meaning of human existence «on» a world full of such expressions generated by the natural and social sciences, as well as in the history of culture.

His phenomenology of perception and the body led him to explore widely, and deeply, history, political life, art, language, and the social sciences.

Knowledge about individual community leaders, the history and development of a town, the way decisions are made in its institutions and social groups, the deals being made in the world of politics and business, the norms and values in the arts and sciences, the presuppositions and operational concepts of the professions — this is grist for the mill of a core group which has the responsibility of planning strategy for the mission of a particular church in an American community.

WORLD: It's been shown to you, all around you and in you, for your whole life, if you were paying attention close enough, especially in science and history and social cla - sses, but also outside of them as well.

With few exceptions, these theological perspectives have not done the kind of descriptive analysis of the interplay between biography and history that is characteristic of classical studies in the personality sciences, especially social psychology.

At best, history of religions found its place in a rather uncomfortable position between the social sciences and the humanities.

Because of the vast amount of research in the social sciences, American universities are especially well equipped to become great centers for the study of the history of religions.

Today the history of religions will either develop into a major specialty, playing a key role within and between the social sciences, humanities, and theology, or it will lapse into respectably tolerated standing within one or several of these disciplines.

Under the combined influence of Science and History, and of social developments, the twofold sense of duration and collectivity has pervaded and re-ordered the entire field of our experience; with the twofold result that the future, hitherto a vague succession of monotonous years awaiting an unimportant number of scattered individual lives, is now seen to be a period of positive becoming and maturing — but one in which we can advance and shape ourselves only in solidarity.

Is the history of religions a discipline auxiliary to philosophy of religion or to a social science?

Drawing on history, theology, and the social sciences, Senn demonstrates that the working assumptions of the church growth movement and its forms of worship have their roots in European pietism and rationalism of two hundred years ago.

The social sciences also offer an interesting variety of subjects, such as «Natural Man and Ideal Man in Western Thought» and «Freedom and Authority in the Modern World» in the elementary courses, and «History of Far Eastern Civilization,» «Introduction to the Civilization of India,» and «Introduction to the Civilization of the Middle East» in the secondary group.

The harmonic principle is agreement of interest, as studied in ethics, history, and the social sciences.

One wonders whether, in the future, when we shall know so much more about what literature says and how it hangs together than we now do, we shall come to see literary myth as a similarly constructive principle in the social or qualitative sciences, giving shape and coherence to psychology, anthropology, theology, history and political theory without losing in any one of them its own autonomy of hypothesis.»

«In 35 - years of teaching, I've taught PE, English, religion, theology, anthropology, math, biology, all the social sciences, AP World History and American History, economics and American Government.»

We're going to work with the month of observances and give the kids some history and social science, as well as holiday observances and what they mean.

I still believe, as I put it in chapter two, that «software», not «hardware» — the long, slow waves of cultural change, not the more obvious technological and economic changes that figure so prominently in public debate and academic social science — hold the key to the British predicament; that our ills form an interdependent system or, in medical language, a «syndrome»; and that they reflect the bewilderment and disorientation of a people who have forgotten the history that shaped them, and who therefore no longer know who they are.

However to do so it must establish a close and fruitful dialogue, as it has attempted to do in the past, with the social sciences (the sociology of work, psychology of work, history of work, but also sociology of science and technology).

It also included an evening session going beyond economics and political science to look at how times of fiscal austerity were reflected in film, cartoon and gallery art, with experts exploring these issues from the perspective of social history.

One of the main problems that I was confronted with on - site, and one which many social scientists encounter too, is that «traditional» Western theory and methodology adequately prepare undergraduate and graduate students for carrying out research in their own societies, but neither prepare them for dealing with difficult research circumstances, nor do they train students for conflict areas in post-traumatic societies.Such history (and political science) courses seem to be functional and have roots in European reality.

The senior high level school curriculum has core subjects and elective subjects of which students must take four the core subjects of English language, mathematics, integrated science (including science, agriculture and environmental studies) and social studies (economics, geography, history and government).

The journalist and social commentator Paul Valery said that history is the science of what never happens twice.

For the purposes of this initiative the social sciences are defined as inclusive of the subjects of economics, economic and social history, political science, socio - legal studies, education, psychology, cognitive studies, linguistics, management and business studies, human geography, environmental planning, international studies, area and development studies, social statistics, demography, social science computing, sociology, social anthropology, social policy and social work.

Each of the three cities have a proud humanist history, Manchester being associated with Robert Owen, the eighteenth century social reformer and founder of the co-operative movement; Alan Turing, mathematician and founder of computer science; Professor John Harris, philosopher and bio-ethicist; and Professor Brian Cox, physicist, TV presenter and former pop - star.

Jonathan D. Moreno, a professor of medical ethics and health policy and of the history and sociology of science and philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, pointed to the social and ethical implications such technologies introduce.

In one of the strangest twists in social science history, their results show that the canvassing strategy really can influence biases.

Even projects that appear to meet CSIC's priority criteria are suffering delays due to added layers of bureaucracy and confusion, says Elisa Garrido, a Ph.D. student in the science history department at the Center of Human and Social Sciences in Madrid, in an e-mail to Science Cscience history department at the Center of Human and Social Sciences in Madrid, in an e-mail to Science CScience Careers.

Montillo uses the classic novel Frankenstein as her starting point to explore the shady science and changing social mores that inspired Mary Shelley's 1818 tale, and folds details of Shelley's personal life into a broader history of early anatomists and alchemists.

The role of the sciences in schools intensified between 1960 and 1980, when areas such as the social sciences (i.e. educational science and psychology) were added to the subjects in disciplines such as history, German, Romance languages, mathematics, etc..

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But Wertheim did not set out to argue a case or to complain — her initial intention was to fill a perceived gap by writing, as a physicist, a popular «history of physics» that took into account social studies of science.

Also valuable are classes that focus on a particular group of people — African - American studies, Native American culture, for example — as well as social science and history courses.