Sentences with phrase «like social sciences»

Yes, climatology is more of a real soft science, like social sciences and economics.

He took classes he enjoyed, like social sciences and history, and also picked up work as a substitute teacher in the public school district.

... Educationally the natural science faculty feel like the social science faculty or the humanities faculty, that unionization does not affect the educational relationship.

Cloaked in the mantle of science, like the social science texts I talked of earlier, they tend to freeze - frame both the content of what is taught and the ways in which instruction occurs, usually through specific delivery systems.

Climatology really is a junk science like social science, political science, economics or Christan Science, requiring True Believers with no objectiviity left.

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You'll need a university degree, preferably in a related field like business administration, law, or social science.

I do miss some for sure, but even if it's something as small as an «awesome» or a «Like» — that totally makes a huge difference,» he explained on our Science of Social Media podcast.

When one man who has disrupted the energy, automotive and space industries, and another who connected nearly 2 billion individuals in the same social network, make major moves in neuroscience, somehow it feels like science fiction is evolving into history, and that our lives are about to change in unprecedented ways.

A lot of recent social - science research suggests that reminders like these, nudges like these, are pretty effective.

Overview: The Good Food Institute (GFI) seeks a graduate (or exceptional undergraduate) student in the social sciences who would like to apply their research skills to the context of consumer acceptance of plant - based and clean meat.

Other than the lessons discussed above, one must understand the science of social networks and network effects — that people tend to be friends with others like them, or that a product or service is more valuable the more people use it, for example.

Thus, the social sciences, like the natural sciences, show that man's nature and nurture in their relational as in their universal aspects, must be conceived with due regard for the inextricable interdependence of physical, mental, and spiritual factors.

Applied science is sometimes called technics, but since it covers also a vast range of studies affecting human life, as in nutrition and dietetics, medicine and surgery, psychiatry, pedagogy, geriatrics, social casework, penology, and the like, it is hardly accurate to classify all of these under the heading of technology.

In its anti-religious intellectual history and methodology, economics is like the other social sciences.

In this context we should like to warn against the snobbery of certain circles who imagine that natural science, technology and social planning have nothing to do with culture, which in their view can only be created by individualistic elites.

In opposition to the reductionist social science of secular thinkers like Freud, Durkheim and Marx, Eliade took a stand for the autonomy of religion and the humanistic paradigm of explanation.

Speaking of evangelistic methods, I should mention many other avenues, like the arts, the humanities, and the social sciences.

Like Maclntyre, Taylor is unusually knowledgeable about the social sciences (he has taught in...

As a social scientist Berger avoids taking the position that religion is an irreducible reality sui generis (i.e., in a class all its own), as does someone like Ninian Smart, the popular professor of comparative religions, in his book The Science of Religion and the Sociology of Knowledge (1973).

What actually happens with Gutiérez and others close to him is something like this: they turn to the social sciences for help in understanding the dynamics of the world in which they live; among those they read is Marx, who describes a world in which a «class struggle» is going on.

Human beings rarely act like this (see Roger Trigg: Understanding Social Science, Blackwell 1985, pp. 154 184).

And social reform makes the U.S. socialists like europe... oh no that would be terrible... children excelling in science and math again, and everyone having jobs which... get this... means more people spending money!

When studying the strengths of noncategorial dispositions then, introspection, like natural and social science, seems bound to be measuring an amalgam of final and efficient causality, whose relative contributions to a given feeling are probably impossible in principle to distinguish, even for omniscience.

So he was probably here somewhere, and there I was, dressed like a derelict and making my way up the steps of the library's Hope Street entrance at 4:35 p.m. I did a quick circuit of all the rooms and at once found Gordon Brooks standing in the social sciences department.

Kids with an advanced enthusiasm for things like programming, robotics, science, debate, or social justice love the way these camps give them an educational edge.

A study published in the Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science found that dads who were actively engaged in raising their children had kids who were better at problem solving and less likely to suffer emotional problems like anxiety and social withdrawal.

By using a method like Pick Up, Put Down neurons link together into circuits controlling learning, memory, and social behavior, according to Science News, and in turn, the method affects where neurons end up and the connections they form.

Starting at $ 17 a month, you get a kit centered around a theme like science, social studies, and more.

Like any finding in the social sciences, uncovering patterns is much easier than explaining them.

Reading with good comprehension sets kids up for success in all of their other subjects, like social studies, math, and science.

I mean, with so many different social media networks, so many online streaming services to choose from and so many dive bars you could easily frequent on a weekly basis, who in the world has the time to come up with such an awful name like Audio Science?

«Ultimately, it is the tendency of all too many social scientists (and the public) to deny, dismiss or minimize findings they do not like, while embracing, if not playing up, those they do like, that gives social science a bad name — as ideology masquerading as science.

Family — A lover of books, art, music, food, travel and the great outdoors, Alyson lives in Toronto and has two young adult daughters who are finishing their university studies in the social sciences... just like their mom.

I don't really put too much stock in academic authority of people in social sciences until they talk about testable predictions like real scientists do; or at the very least deal with # s. Without that, they're just people who have opinions that are no more nor less valid than anyone who isn't an academic social scientist.

Let us all hope that ministers like David Willetts are not just paying lip - service to the social sciences, and he — and his colleagues — are serious about making policies based on evidence not ideology.

As a result, dams have received much criticism from academics in the social sciences, and national and international NGOs, culminating in anti-dam social movements like those seen against the Narmada project in India.

These questions barely scratch the surface, because the complex interplay between general advancements of computational social science and hovering satellite topics like political bots will have an enormous impact on research and using data for policy.

People like to claim there's «science» in «social - sciences» but the reality is that there's not.

Wince - Smith also made a plea for the arts, humanities and social sciences as important for a society that hopes to remain economically competitive in the future «Business disciplines like management, marketing and design need to also be the purview of science and engineering,» she said.

On the map, computer science is linked more closely to social sciences like psychology and sociology than to applied physics.

«The only thing surprising in the data is how much the data from these absolutely brilliant women look like data from any group of high - achieving women in general,» says Diane Halpern, the dean of social sciences at the Minerva Schools at Keck Graduate Institute in California.

Try informal gatherings, too — like DC's science policy happy hours, or Science Writers in New York's quarterly sscience policy happy hours, or Science Writers in New York's quarterly sScience Writers in New York's quarterly socials.

Political science; social, cultural, and religious studies; law; and economics are obvious targets, but other disciplines like archeology, physics, and math are not immune to attacks.

«A social media campaign is practically obligatory for candidates today, and the key to social media is that it's interactive; it's not one - way like traditional political advertising,» said Paul R. Brewer, professor of communication and of political science and international relations and director of UD's Center for Political Communication (CPC).

Like other cybersecurity training programs around the country, the CAE programs draw students from computer science, engineering, math, statistics, forensic sciences, criminal justice, business administration, public policy, law, education, and the social sciences.

I'd also like to see a commitment from governments to support research across the disciplines, and from researchers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to stand up for social scientists and humanities scholars who find themselves under attack in the media or through reductions in research funding.

During the course of the experiment, sixth, seventh and eighth graders learned about science and social studies in one of two ways: 1) material was presented once, then teachers reviewed it with students three times; 2) material was presented once, and students were quizzed on it three times (using clickers like the ones in Bain's current classroom).

Examples of this shift include the familiar social media and social networking sites, like Twitter and Facebook, many people use on a daily basis as well as the likes of Wikipedia and other collaborative ventures, such as citizen science projects.

The first is that «science is a social institution, with a mission and «baggage» like all other social institutions created by human beings,» he said.

As the authors see it, it's only natural that social - science fields like linguistics increasingly exchange knowledge and techniques with fields like statistics and biology.