Sentences with phrase «more sociological»

Pierre Trudel, in the National Paper proposed an historic perspective with some reference to Duplessis; Michel - Adrien mentioned a more sociological approach.

15 Two aspects of the development of the summary judgment jurisprudence have received little attention because they involve considerations that are more sociological than juridical.

Drawing partly on more sociological literature, and the systems innovation literature (Unruh, 2002), tends to support a view that we are now «locked in'to carbon - intensive systems, with profound implications: «Carbon lock - in arises through technological, organizational, social and institutional co-evolution... due to the self - referential nature of [this process], escape conditions are unlikely to be generated internally.»

The «big bang» of 20th century abstraction was always more sociological than aesthetic in its character, and so 21st century abstraction out to be more aesthetic, i.e. rooted in a physical experience of the world perceived through the body's senses.

Elsewhere, more sociological and semiotic registers of blackness are brought to the fore.

Kavi Gupta has a current show of his work here, but I think his work in New Orleans is far more sociological.

Having worked as a travel writer / photographer and guidebook author for a few years, I was bored and frustrated with the way the same soundbites / places were regurgitated endlessly; so I decided to start something that would allow me to go beyond the usual restrictions of guidebooks: no word counts, no deadlines and a commitment to the more sociological or experiential sides of a city (as opposed to only writing about its commercial elements).

The second half is quite a bit more sociological than the beginning (or the terrific PBS series) and doesn't whisk the reader along, but is still interesting.

Soon after Duvivier moved around the casbah of Algiers, Renoir made his own tragic commentary on his country with Grand Illusion, a more sociological - centered statement on class resentment bringing about the Great War (and possibly, the war brewing on the other side of Alsace - Lorraine).

Before transitioning to more sociological research on the process of science, she was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California (UC) at Berkeley working on avian ecology.

Luther placed the institutional Church squarely in the kingdom of the left hand, and the result was a Church more sociological in character.

An educated congregation these days knows more sociological and psychological explanations for its collective behavior than it dares, in its embarrassment, to apply.

The reasons are more sociological than ideological.

My more sociological stages of modernity DO NOT necessarily parallel Strauss's intellectual waves of modernity.

On the issue of sacraments, which dominated much of the discussion (partly due to Leithart's firm insistence on the absolute necessity of weekly communion), Sanders said little, given his low - church Zwinglianism on the issue, Trueman admitted their importance but stressed the centrality of the Word, and Leithart camped out on his own more sociological De Lubacian sacramentology.

Not exact matches

What's more, those 9 - to - 5 schedules aren't a smart strategy: Employees with flexibility in their workday report higher levels of job satisfaction and reduced levels of burnout and psychological stress, according to a study conducted over 12 months at a Fortune 500 company with 700 employees and published in the February issue of American Sociological Review.

It's a much more complicated sociological problem.

And that becomes much more sort of a sociological or social psychological component,» Mauboussin said.

Being an African American, Mormon, or a woman has nothing to do with solid reasonable political views, they are nothing more than physical or sociological traits.

As a result, clergy are often more adept at giving sociological accounts of church life than they are at helping their congregations appreciate that it is the presence of God that makes their life possible.

At a more sophisticated level, we have learned to use sociological and psychological explanations to «understand» (that is, manipulate and scientifically manage) the church.

If the Church did not have this gospel, it would be simply a more or less interesting sociological phenomenon.

Nevertheless, I believe that a nondefensive openness to psychological and sociological knowledge, as well as to the natural sciences is more faithful to Wesley, despite the fact that the consequences of such openness may lead to ideas that were foreign to him.

Today we recognize each other more clearly than formerly as Christians in a theological, not only in a sociological sense.

Indeed, a «sociological imagination» is slowly transforming all theologies — sometimes with unsettling and explicit power, as in the use of critical social theories in political and liberation theologies; sometimes with more implicit but no less unsettling effect, as in the increasing use of sociology of knowledge to clarify the actual social settings (or publics) of different theologies.

Others have insisted that their work is social - scientific in the strong sense of the term — that is, as work guided by the correlation of models and data, as are more purely sociological and social - psychological studies.

More significant than the disagreement over terminology however, has been the issue of which sociological or anthropological methods and approaches are most suitable.

Although colonial rule may have cost the European powers more than they gained economically (as has recently been maintained concerning the British experience), colonialism undoubtably had profound sociological and political effects on the industrialized nations.

I recalled that the last time I looked at the book, more than ten years ago, I felt embarrassed by the naïveté and piety of the young writer who sought to authorize her insights and proposals by quoting numerous theological, psychological and sociological authorities.

The Songbook inevitably has to analyze modernity, precisely because it is interested more in what rock reveals about our overall sociological and spiritual situation than it is in rock itself.

Yet it is more accurate to call it a work of sociology than a work of history, for it develops a specific and arresting sociological...

Until a far greater percentage of churchgoing Americans and Canadians have become more articulate about the faith, it is absurd to imagine that North American church folk could stand back from their sociological moorings far enough to detach what Christians profess from the mish - mash of modernism, secularism, pietism, and free - enterprise democracy with which Christianity in our context is so fantastically interwoven.

Whether we are speaking of pastoral psychology as a more or less loosely organized body of principles which informed the daily work of increasingly larger numbers of ministers educated in the better seminaries, or whether we are talking about pastoral psychology in its more professional manifestations in the form of institutional chaplaincies or church - related counseling centers, the sociological origins of the movement tended to render it ineffective in relating to the specific problems and life - styles of the poor.

As I use the word in this book, it refers to that group of over forty - five million Americans and millions more worldwide who believe in (1) the need for personal relationship with God through faith in the atoning work of Jesus Christ, and (2) the sole and binding authority of the Bible as God's revelation.5 «Evangelical» is, first of all, a theological term, though its adherents may also have derivative sociological and psychological traits.

Broadly speaking, the regulation of the relation of the whole institution to its government or leadership, of its parts to the whole (the individual congregation), and of the individual to the higher sociological and ecclesiastical units may be either more democratic or more authoritarian.

While the character of certain movements and groups is to a large extent defined by sociological criteria, such as the earlier so - called Frontier religion or now the Buchmean (Oxford group) Movement, which Allan Eister has recently analyzed in his book Drawing Room Conversion, we find that the more definitely a religious group is a religious group — as distinct from an economic, political, or cultural association — the more important, both for members of the group and students of it, will become its worship and its theology.

Perhaps if you knew a little more about what the Church was about, then you would at least be in a position to throw actual stones (i.e., reasoned theological or sociological arguments against the Church).

Section III shows that without altogether ceasing to be anthropocentric sociological theory can become much more sensitive to ecological issues and that ecological theology needs to be informed by sociological understanding.

It is a small book, and the supporting sociological evidence is mainly referenced in the footnotes, but Greeley does propose evidence that, among other things, Catholics have, compared to non-Catholics, a significantly higher appreciation of the arts and high culture; they have more satisfaction and fun in sex; they better understand the uses of leisure; they have a deeper and more stable relationship to family and community; they have a greater respect for the life of the mind, with educational achievements reflecting that respect; and they understand the nuanced connections between freedom and authority.

Form and redaction criticism, now more recently audience criticism, structuralism, psychohistory and sociological analysis, all of these, if only added serially to the old objectivist paradigm, can do nothing to dislodge us from our alienated distance.

Sociological data and theory are not uninteresting, but scholars who draw that conclusion are claiming to know ever so much more than they can possibly know.

Stressing the relevance of a given course or discipline to the modern world, putting more emphasis on psychological and sociological studies, or locating students in field situations, while important, will not solve the problem.

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.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that no one had ever devoted more profound and more penetrating thought to the nature of speech, to the structure of language, to its psychological and sociological problems, to its typology and its function in the development of human civilization than the sage of Tegel.

It is not just that it is more or less futile (for the sociological reasons I have mentioned) or that it is philosophically dubious.

Given our current sociological inclination, the formula has come to have different, and perhaps more radical, implications than originally suggested by Bultmann.

For a more general critical survey of recent sociological thought, see Robert W. Friedrichs, A Sociology of Sociology (New York: Free Press, 1970).

McGavran and his disciples suggest that those desiring church growth should become more conscious of sociological «people movements» and encourage people to become Christian through the people - movement route.

Yet it is more accurate to call it a work of sociology than a work of history, for it develops a specific and arresting sociological thesis.

Frankly, I find more serious discussion of the problems of moral relativity and political ideology in the sociological writings of Karl Mannheim and Max Scheler, and even in the structuralism of Claude Levi - Strauss, than I do in the writings of many contemporary theologians.