Sentences with phrase «in sociological research»

It seeks to address a gap in sociological research, in a subject which is more widely recognised psychologically.

This lesson focuses on Longitudinal and Case Studies, including strengths and limitations and how they are used in sociological research through a variety of activities, including a video clip link to 49 Up.

In her sociological research Glick has documented the stresses on Hispanic and Asian immigrants in Phoenix, which intensified during the recession of the past four years.

Having groups of fishers play two simple games standard in sociological research, Basurto and colleagues show that the players from marine protected areas became both more generous and more cutthroat toward competition, compared with those who did not work in protected areas.

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The research threw up a concept known as homophily — a word invented by social scientists to describe the sociological phenomenon in which people are most drawn to others resembling themselves.

But there has been a remarkable growth in both the quantity and the quality of sociological research in this field recently.

Two decades after «Dover Beach,» the Fabian Socialists in England were busily, busily building on the ruins with education, sociological research and reform.

Andrew Greeley and his associates at the National Opinion Research Center have concluded on the basis of their sociological research that Humanae Vitae, the 1968 papal encyclical condemning artificial contraception, «seems to have been the reason for massive apostasy and for a notable decline in religious devotion and beliefResearch Center have concluded on the basis of their sociological research that Humanae Vitae, the 1968 papal encyclical condemning artificial contraception, «seems to have been the reason for massive apostasy and for a notable decline in religious devotion and beliefresearch that Humanae Vitae, the 1968 papal encyclical condemning artificial contraception, «seems to have been the reason for massive apostasy and for a notable decline in religious devotion and belief.»

Sociological research on the attitudes of the Czech people indicates that in the first four years of freedom confidence in the Church fell rapidly and the number of declared Catholics declined by almost one - half.

It is perhaps significant that the exchange of ideas and mutual interdependence between the scholars of various nations — American, English, Dutch, French, German, Scandinavian — in this discipline has been as strong as, if not stronger than, in other fields of sociological research.

Perhaps so, but that conclusion flies in the face of a long tradition of sociological research that has shown relationships between specific types of beliefs and variations in social class, region, family structure, and political system.

As with other fields of sociological research the question has been asked if there is good enough reason to treat socioreligious phenomena separately instead of handling them in the traditional disciplines (theology, philosophy, anthropology, etcetera).30 Yet, as against such doubts, the work done by modern scholarship has proved the right to an independent existence of «sociology of religion.»

I had been doing research in the Punjab on the social movements of the oppressed untouchables, many of whom had joined the Christian church during the great missionary era; so it was an event of sociological interest to me and to the lower - caste community of converts.

If we agree with him, he has given a strong sociological reason for including theology in a research university; but the very notion of a research university seems necessarily to exclude theology.

For a summary of viewpoints and this consensus, see Robin Scroggs, «The Sociological Interpretation of the New Testament: The Present State of Research,» in The Bible and Liberation: Political and Social Hermeneutics, ed.

One can point to the emergence of a variety of critical approaches to religion in general, and to Christianity in particular, which have contributed to the breakdown of certainties: These include historical - critical and other new methods for the study of biblical texts, feminist criticism of Christian history and theology, Marxist analysis of the function of religious communities, black studies pointing to long - obscured realities, sociological and anthropological research in regard to cross-cultural religious life, and examinations of traditional teachings by non-Western scholars.

It is evident that additional sociological research is needed to give a more comprehensive scientific picture of the role of social class in the causation of alcoholism.

Co., 1978); Thomas C. Campbell and Yoshio Fukuyama, The Fragmented Layman: An Empirical Study of Lay Attitudes (Philadelphia: Pilgrim Press, 1970); James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as an Independent Variable,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 11 (1972): 65 - 75; James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as a Dependent Variable,» Sociological Analysis 33 (1972): 81 - 94; James D. Davidson, «Patterns of Belief at the Denominational and Congregational Levels,» Review of Religious Research 13 (1972): 197 - 205; David R. Gibbs, Samuel A. Miller, and James R. Wood, «Doctrinal Orthodoxy, Salience and the Consequential Dimension,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 12 (1973): 33 - 52; William McKinney, and others, Census Data for Community Mission (New York: Board for Homeland Ministries, United Church of Christ, 1983), part of a denomination - wide study of census data relevant to each congregation in the United Church of Christ; David O. Moberg, `' Theological Position and Institutional Characteristics of Protestant Congregations: An Explanatory Study,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1974).

An assessment of Douglass's contribution both to sociological method and to the study of the local church is contained in Jeffrey K. Hadden, «H. Paul Douglass: His Perspective and His Work,» Review of Religious Research 22 (1980): 66 - 88.

We must seek the deepest possible sociological understanding of the world we live in, apply the best methods, refrain from tampering with the resuits of our research on the ground that they are «spiritually» embarrassing, maintain complete clarity and complete realism - all in order to find out, as precisely as may be, where we are and what we are doing, and also what lines of action are open to us.

Here the university ought to combine research with its application for sociological reasons: These are the three professions that are necessary for society's health (presumably civil or mechanical engineering were not «socially necessary» in the same way).

Aquiares has been home to research studies for decades, starting with early sociological studies in the 1950's.

The British Sociological Association annual conference in Birmingham will reveal this using research available from current and former footballers.

I'm no expert, but in addition to the vast amount of research I did before my 2nd child (homebirth), my experience with an ob before I switched to a midwife with that same child, my experience with a medicated vaginal hospital birth w / my first child, my experience in talking to dozens of women that have had surgical births, in addition to all that anecdotal «wisdom», I have taken a graduate level Sociology of Medicine class that was an in depth look at our current medical system from a sociological perspective and we spent a couple of weeks talking about the medical model of birth and the alternatives.

I also think that any government that is intending to bring in such a change would be very wise to look at, and research carefully, the sociological impact.

However, according to new research in the June 2017 American Sociological Review, the hiring of these officers actually led to increases in risky behavior helping lead Wall Street into its biggest crash since the Great Depression.

Browning presented the research Aug. 14 in Montreal at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.

«If the committee could pull together what we already know... and make very strong recommendations» regarding changes in science and engineering education, the effort would be worth it, says Elaine Seymour, who works in the Bureau of Sociological Research at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

These observations seem to have set off a wave of sociological research, the feminists in the van.

But Laird's research, presented this week at the American Sociological Association's annual meeting in Chicago, found that black civil servants, especially women, lost their jobs at rates higher than whites.

Networking expert Dick van Vlooten, founder and owner of di Cuore, an institute that does research on the art of doing «business from the heart,» has been training businesspeople, students, and entrepreneurs in the art of networking for 4 years, as well as publishing sociological articles and giving lectures to project managers, sales representatives, and young researchers.

In science, whether taking a long sociological look at an individual laboratory as a fact factory or reviewing the whole research system, these authors ask how local, provisional knowledge is transformed into the global certainties of natural law.

«I can see that this paper might generate some controversy, in terms of using biological data to determine sociological structures,» says Angelique Corthals, a forensic anthropologist at the City University of New York in New York City, who was not involved in the research.

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«Tradition and Innovation in Scientists» Research Strategies» by Jacob Foster, Andrey Rzhetsky, and James Evans was published online September 1, 2015, by American Sociological Review.

The researchers presented their research as a working paper this weekend at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, and are now studying other states to see if their findings hold true in a larger sample size.

The book is funny, but it's also rooted in sociological findings from a research project designed by Ansari and sociologist Eric Klinenberg.

Dr. Jenny van Hooff, senior lecturer in sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University & the study's author, presented the research at the British Sociological Association's conference this week, saying:

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Warikoo's research has been published in numerous scholarly journals, and she has won grants and awards from American Sociological Association, the British Academy, Guggenheim Foundation, National Science Foundation, Nuffield Foundation, and Russell Sage Foundation.

Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, American Sociological Association, and Spencer Foundation, and she has published in a variety of journals, including Journal of Children and Poverty, Education and Urban Society, Journal of Latinos and Education, Contemporary Sociology, Journal of At - Risk Issues, and Bilingual Research research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, American Sociological Association, and Spencer Foundation, and she has published in a variety of journals, including Journal of Children and Poverty, Education and Urban Society, Journal of Latinos and Education, Contemporary Sociology, Journal of At - Risk Issues, and Bilingual Research Research Journal.

Relatedly, sociological research has established that teachers tend to calibrate the content and pacing of their instruction according to the average prior achievement of their students, [14] implying that these well - prepared students will learn faster in classes with high - ability peers.

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I propose a sociological proposition: there are many retired scientists who are skeptical about global warming theory because they no longer have a vested interest in the outcome of any research.

Political and corporate elites are — apparently — susceptible to the temptations and moral hazards of corruption, and — according to psychological and sociological research — more likely to cheat and act unethically than poorer groups in society.

Aaron's book bridges this gap by examining effective communications skills, as gleaned from a multitude of sociological and psychological research studies, and then provides lawyers with practical tips for implementing effective communications skills in their law practices.

In my own case, having researched the matter very carefully, and having unearthed a great deal of contemporary & corroborating psychological and sociological scientific evidence demonstrating the harm caused to children as a result of overseas parental separation, I felt that I had an absolute duty to my children to fight the application.

An earlier wave of sociological research on the legal profession in the 1960s and 1970s, for example, pushed the legal profession courses of an earlier generation to include more sociology and history — as suggested once again by the Carnegie Report.

Alongside this research, there is intervention, epidemiological, sociological and qualitative evidence all suggesting that local environments are important in supporting the family capacity necessary to raise children in ways that promote good developmental outcomes.6, 7 The neighbourhoods or communities in which people live appears to impact health and well - being.8 While «neighbourhood» is often used in other studies, in the Australian context «neighbourhood» and «community» are often used interchangeably (these terms are further defined on page 9).7 The research into neighbourhood effects on children was originally motivated by the observation that disadvantage seemed geographically concentrated and intergenerational.