Sentences with phrase «like social scientists»

To do so requires liberals to quit speaking and reasoning like social scientists.

Munich professor of theology Wolthart Pannenberg, sounding strikingly like a social scientist, has observed that «it is only by symbols and symbolic language that the larger community to which we belong is present in our experiences and activities.

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Plenty of thinkers have argued that time abroad increases important skills for business success like comfort with ambiguity, confidence when confronted with the unfamiliar, and accelerated learning, but the team of social scientists out of Rice University, Columbia, and the University of North Carolina behind this study wanted to test the effects of extended travel abroad on self knowledge specifically.

When the social scientist and derivatives trader sat down at the same table at a friend's wedding in 2011, they got to talking about their shared interest in «epic failures,» like the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Fukushima nuclear disaster and Hurricane Sandy.

And the community of social, behavioral and data scientists who work in marketing and communications have never looked more like...

And the community of social, behavioural and data scientists who work in marketing and communications have never looked more like the enemy.

This assertion is not meant to imply that religion is either false or ultimately nothing more than the fabrication of human minds — indeed, Berger argues in other writings that the transcendent seems to break through humanly constructed worlds, as it were, from the outside, However, the social scientist must recognize the degree to which religion, like all symbol systems, involves human activity.

Social scientists like Gilpin are invaluable conversation partners.

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).

At the same time, however, I have called attention to the difficulty of trying to work out an «ecological» approach to social policy when we, like the chaos scientists, know so little about how to predict and influence long - term developments.

This book constitutes a sophisticated transformation of the intellectual puzzle of the mystery; like Oedipus, Philippa Rose Palfrey, the adopted daughter of a nonbelieving social scientist who is also a television personality, decides to seek out the identity of her natural parents.

The social scientist engaged in this pursuit is like the proverbial physicist struggling up the steep cliff of higher learning to discover the meaning of life, only to find upon reaching the top a humble guru who had - been sitting there all along.

Like other social scientists who use survey data, we trusted Gallup poll results because we knew they employed sound sampling methods.

And I have defended due process for years and have several public rants about the social media age and online lynch mobs setting a scary precedent - but hey just like Rueben you already know me, my intentions and my history - you are a rocket scientist.

But the modern, and dominant, view of developmental scientists like Steinberg is that the degree to which parents can successfully parent their children is highly dependent on how well their social environment — education, policy, media, culture, the economy — align to support children's development.

«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.

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.

Even though new technological infrastructures or individual tools rarely, if ever, change the world in one blow or cause particular events, they still have implications, biases, long - term implications, like the ones discussed by careful, deep thinkers of long - term change like Harold Innis and Elizabeth Eisenstein and more immediate ones for how we live our lives, as studied by social scientists willing to let the chips fall as they may.

Critics like Matt Browner - Hamlin, the SEIU's deputy director of new media, and Michael Cornfield, a political scientist and longtime analyst of online politics, have chimed in to dismiss the study's import, arguing that simply counting the presence of social media tools being deployed by an organization means little, or nothing.

It's pretty clear,» said University of Maryland political scientist Robert Koulish, who said the second - term governor appears to be positioning himself as a hybrid: a centrist in the mold of Clinton who supports social policies championed by liberals like Sanders.

In 1986, Ivan Chase of Stony Brook University made the first observations of hermit crabs exchanging shells in a «vacancy chain» — a term originally coined by social scientists to describe the ways that people trade coveted resources like apartments and jobs.

Social networks like Friendster depend heavily on software programs, while social scientists frequently rely on computers for statistical anaSocial networks like Friendster depend heavily on software programs, while social scientists frequently rely on computers for statistical anasocial scientists frequently rely on computers for statistical analysis.

For data about wars, there are many databases that estimate war deaths, and in recent eras, governments and social scientists have tracked just about every aspect of life, so we really can get a clear view of things like child abuse, spousal abuse, rape and so on.

She is a professor of social psychology and neuroscience at Northeastern University in Boston, and like many scientists with large, active research labs, she watches with dismay as some Ph.D. s and postdocs struggle to find a secure job, as she did 2 decades ago.

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.

He says he gained this expertise early in his career by hobnobbing with social scientists at places like the Aspen Institute: «I taught them climate, they taught me economics.»

Computational social scientists have shown that digital footprints such as Facebook likes, language samples, and credit card or Web - browsing histories can reveal an individual's sexual orientation, political and religious views, intelligence, and personality.

The findings give hope to social scientists trying to understand broader phenomena, like how rumors about a candidate spread during a campaign or how information about street protests flows out of a country with state - controlled media.

Furthermore, there are now social media places for scientists, and thus one can easily look for like - minded researchers (if one does not know enough from the literature already).

The goal, which one early participant called the «widgetization of social science,» was perhaps best summed up in 2005 by Starnes Walker, then the Office of Naval Research's chief scientist, who said he wanted a Star Trek — like detector that could scan for evil intent.

Firstly, the scientists use local survey statistics to examine the state of a region's social foundation, covering factors like health, clean water, income levels and education.

Social scientists have long known that women working in numerically male - dominated occupations like physics and firefighting report experiencing workplace stress, but men who work in numerically female - dominated occupations like nursing and child care do not.

Many social scientists say people are hesitant to act on climate change because, especially in Western industrialized countries like the U.S., it feels like such a distant threat.

Humans have intricate memories that allow them to keep track of individuals, but scientists have long thought that social insects like wasps eschew recognition of specific individuals in favor of general social rules that apply to everyone.

When political scientist Gary King of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University and Ph.D. students Jennifer Pan and Margaret Roberts began examining censorship in China in 2011, many scholars assumed that calling for policy changes, criticizing government leaders, and raising sensitive topics like the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989 were verboten.

Social scientists have long observed that imprisonment behaves like a contagious disease, says Kristian Lum, a statistician at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg.

«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.

That may mean, the scientists write, that people with these conditions respond less strongly to social signals like smiles — but far more work is needed before such a link could be shown.

Social scientists have long observed that imprisonment behaves like a contagious disease.

A team of scientists led by Virginia Tech researchers has received a $ 950,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to study the ways that ideas and behaviors are spread through large social networks like Twitter.

The study done by scientists from the University of Grenoble - Alpes in France managed to find a relation between how much spicy food a man likes and his tendency for aggression, social dominance and risky behaviors.

Scientists from that point forward became like the social insects: They made their progress steadily, as a buzzing mass.

And yet it will come as no surprise that social scientists, like people in general, find that most adolescent witnesses remain uninvolved when someone else actually suffers the impact of bullying, be it by the fists of a lone assailant or by the cutting words of the members of a popular clique.

Like many other statistically minded social scientists of his time, he thought of regression and analysis of variance as tools that did not merely break an outcome, such as achievement, into partial correlations.

A different question — a good think - tank question — is how social scientists can determine, in the initial stages of a major reform like the Common Core, whether the «theory of action» is playing out as expected.

Of course skilled social scientists observe pedagogy in action and share their observations, but it's still only good guidance and not a proven principle like buoyancy.

The foundation embraced what many social scientists had concluded was the prime solution: Instead of losing kids in large schools like Manual, the new thinking was to divide them into smaller programs with 200 to 600 students each.

Research by US social scientists found that those who read novels by the likes of Toni Morrison and Harper Lee do better on «theory of mind» tests.

ring the bells that still can ring... there is a crack in everything Kapwani Kiwanga In her most recent works, Kapwani Kiwanga appears like a scientist, mobilizing her knowledge in social sciences to develop research projects.

Lives and works in Paris (FR) In her most recent works Kapwani Kiwanga appears like a scientist, mobilizing her knowledge in social sciences to develop research projects.