Sentences with phrase «important social phenomenon»

New York University psychologist Elizabeth Phelps says the study is «clever,» because it links a well - studied brain region to an important social phenomenon.

Their opinion was shared by the recently deceased management guru Peter Drucker, who once said that megachurches «are surely the most important social phenomenon in American society in the last 30 years.»

«The Internet offers a tremendous opportunity to understand important social phenomena like family structure and also to help us explore how sharing information influences people's emotional states and decision - making,» says Adam Kramer, a data scientist at Facebook.

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Equally important in the evangelical surge, say students of the phenomenon, are deteriorating social and economic conditions.

Slavery, as social phenomenon and as metaphor, has been an important topic, as has the role of prophets and prophecy, the practice of magic, and the class status of early converts to Christianity.

It is surely one of the most important and welcome religious phenomena of recent years that conservative Protestants are becoming vigorously involved in a kind of «social gospel» of their own.

According to the results of a meta - analysis (Karau & Williams, 1993), social loafing is a pervasive phenomenon, but it does not occur when the group members feel that the task or the group itself is important.

The one approach says merely that social interaction with like - minded believers is an important phenomenon and that we should know more about how often, with whom, and in what settings this sort of social interaction takes place.

One evening, while chastising myself for slacking off on this important parenting / birth activist / blogger task, I got to wondering about birth stories as a social phenomenon: Why do (some) women write their birth stories?

A research led by Pablo Ortellado, from USP (University of Sao Paulo), has scratched the surface of this phenomenon, and shown that these rumours circulating on a social media played an important part in how middle - class and formally educated people were (mis) informed about the investigations.

Listed here are a few important papers in social neuroscience, which have increased our understanding of a range of social phenomena, including knowledge about the self, fear, social exclusion, and inferences about others.

«We believe our theory also will help to better understand other important contagion phenomena, such as the spread of computer viruses, information and fads, or contagion phenomena in social networks,» Helbing added.

When failed concert promoter Uncle Sweetheart (John Goodman) asks down - on - his - luck folk singer Jack Fate (Dylan) about the importance of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin to American rock - and - lore, the inanity of the answer (and the evasiveness of Dylan's demeanour — «Well, it matters to someone, I guess») isn't mysterious so much as inane and disingenuous; even the evocation of social phenomena as important and galvanizing to roots rock and the inner city as the myth of Stagger Lee is tossed off with a wry flick of the hand.

This book shines a fascinating light on this process by revealing how climate change has been transformed from a physical phenomenon, measurable and observable by scientists, into a social, cultural and political one... This book is so important because Mike Hulme can not be dismissed as a skeptic yet he is calling for a radical change in the way we discuss climate change.

However, calculating risk is a complex phenomenon in which many factors — ranging from social and economic conditions to individual habits — play an important role.

Restrictive covenants are a terrific example of a social phenomenon in which social norms and law both play important roles.

Instrumentalism is the belief that legal rules are important because they cause social phenomena.