Sentences with phrase «modern social scientist»

Government is increasingly shaped by criteria of efficiency established by the great high priest of that value, the modern social scientist.

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And yet, the very grounds on which these controversies have been fought — arguing for the «scientific» basis of creationism, making use of the «rational - legal» procedures supplied by the modern court system, and drawing on social scientists for «expert testimony» — all point to the considerable degree to which even religious conservatives have accommodated to the norms of secular rationality.

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.

BOSTON — A scientist and an engineer are charting new courses for their institutions, drawing on their insider status and progressive social views about modern universities.

And it's really the first opportunity that scientists have had to look at the composition of a social group in early modern humans from that time period.

Psychologists extensively study the problem of loneliness in the modern world, with social scientists trying to explain the background and reasons for divorces and failed marriages.

In modern times, these «softer» skills have been most recognized and valued by social scientists whose research has linked them to positive development and wellbeing.

Most modern early - warning systems evolved out of the work of Robert Balfanz, the co-director of the Everyone Graduates Center and a research scientist at the Center for Social Organization of Schools at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and from the University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research.

Selected Foreign Publications about Howard Gardner (PDF) Mind, Work, and Life: A Festschrift On the Occasion of Howard Gardner's 70th Birthday (PDF) «A Blessing of Influences,» an excerpt of an autobiographical essay published in Howard Gardner Under Fire (PDF) One Way of Making a Social Scientist (PDF) Short biography written by Ellen Winner (PDF) «My Way,» a chapter in Psychologists Defying the Crowd by Robert Sternberg (Amazon) Fifty Modern Thinkers of Education: From Piaget to the Present Day (Amazon) «21 years later, «Multiple Intelligences» still debated» (Washington Post) «Thought Leaders: An Interview with Howard Gardner» (Strategy & Business)

Her attention to the illusory surface textures of protean forms is not solely attentive to liquid crystals but extends metaphorically to other social and scientific developments (a fictional Jack - and - the - Beanstalk becomes a modern genetic scientist, or crystals self - organise into a palace whose display function changes consumer society forever). . .

Comedian Aziz Ansari and social scientist Eric Klinenberg cover this in their book Modern Romance, too.