Sentences with phrase «n't social scientists»

Immediately, though, I discovered an essential truth about myself: I am essentially a storyteller, not a social scientist or theologian.

Not exact matches

But some scientists think this ingrained social preference for tall husbands and fathers may not be doing us any good anymore.

But as any social scientist worth their salt will tell you, happiness is a state, not a trait, which means the confluence of conditions necessary to sustain it are ever - changing.

The email told employees, including about 2,000 staff scientists, that «starting immediately and until further notice,» they were not to release any documents or post anything to social media.

«Giving someone a stent is expensive; using social media to help people exercise so they don't get cardiovascular disease is much cheaper,» points out Lyle Ungar, a computer scientists working with the team.

Researchers at the New School for Social Research in New York have determined that reading literary fiction — books that have literary merit and don't fit into a genre — enhances what scientists call «Theory of Mind (ToM), or an ability to understand the mental states of others.

«There is a small decline in church attendance over time, but not nearly as large as suggested in popular culture, or even by some social scientists,» said University of Nebraska - Lincoln sociologist Philip Schwadel, who conducted the study.

Survey social scientists with expertise in surveys and the study of religion to learn if they do or do not have confidence in polls about religion.

Too often the church goes to the social scientists who can describe communities and who may be very helpful to Christians as they think about society but who, because of their analytic language, can not create or reinforce community.

To the Christian, such an atheistic approach to human nature is essentially inhuman, since men do not exist without a fundamental religious vocation any more than they exist in this life without physical needs, individuality or communities, all aspects of the human condition eagerly studied by social scientists.

My own view of all of this, as a practicing social scientist interested in the relationship between religious faith and empirical science, is that the general perspective taken by Evans - Pritchard, Douglas, and the Turners is not only entirely reasonable but close to the best account we might give.

Therefore, contra Bloom and Socrates, the «philosophers are not to rule», and neither are the social scientists.

Although, most Ph.D. candidates in the social sciences have well developed writing skills, which you do not), yet your post is peppered with terms used in ways no natural scientist would use them.

However, the major problem with this is, as smart as Richard Dawkins may be, he's not some super social scientist (based on my interactions with scientists, and I am one, we're not the most socially blessed people around), and the reaction to such acts from non-atheists are probably hurting the cause more than anything.

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.

This implies a recognition not only of the central importance of valuing in human life but also of the way in which the values of the psychologist and the social scientist affect their methods.

As a consequence, the social scientist, whether or not he intends it, is implicated in the formation of social policy decisions.

If Levering is correct, we shouldn't expect this problem to be understood adequately by the philosophers and social scientists.

Even non-Marxist social scientists have found the description of globalization in the Communist Manifesto not only prophetic but of validity in analyzing the new stage of capitalism.

She does not tell us whether she has come to identify fully with this version of Christianity, but she makes clear that in this book she writes as a social scientist who in this role can not make statements about the ultimate validity of the Evangelical experience of God.

I'm not that kind of social scientist.

These intensive analyses of the human scene by historian, social scientist, political scientist, and anthropologist, do not cover up the brutal, tragic record.

For this reason, along with the fact that Stevick takes religious belief seriously in a way that many social scientists don't, Growing Up Amish is worth reading.

Ross warned that scientists who undertook this task must not reveal their scientific secrets, because «to betray the secrets of social ascendancy is to forearm the individual in his struggle with society.»

These social scientists have not yet, to my knowledge, turned their attention to the role (s) played by theologians in helping to form the attitudes of clergy and laity.

A professor of education at Vanderbilt, Murphy is a social scientist, not an advocate, which makes his generally positive evaluation of homeschooling all the more significant.

In short, he pursues his subject as an historian and theologian, not chiefly as a literary archaeologist or social scientist.

They themselves are usually future - oriented — a tendency evidenced in the futurism fad among today's social scientists, and the ahistorical approach if not downright antihistoricism seen in many aspects of social science.

Not only do scientists — and especially social scientists — demonstrate radically low levels of religious commitment, but scientific and social scientific meaning systems appear to operate as functional alternatives to traditional theistic ideas for a number of people, and technical rationality plays an increasingly important legitimating function in the wider society.

If I were writing not for church people but for social scientists, I would instead stress the need to give human valuations their proper role in research.

When social scientists, in their efforts to remain simply «objective,» forget that people have a conscience to which they plead, they are in my opinion unrealistic and are not doing their duty as scientists.

We need Hispanic theologians and social scientists who will reflect from within the common experience of faith of our people, not as outsiders but as believers who are seeking to understand, clarify and enrich our own life of faith.

Most social scientists are aware that each of us has an aspect of our personality that does not easily fit into the social settings in which we find ourselves.

We do not really know what to do with religiousness when it expresses itself outside those enclosures which historians and social scientists have carefully labeled religions.

It not only revealed that formula companies were out for the bottom line and apparently had no concern for the infants they were claiming to nourish, but also led morally driven scientists and social activists to question the formula - accepting status quo.

And while scientists can't point to a «happiness» gene or isolate a «moody» nodule in the brain, an abundance of research shows that your baby's temperament — her basic emotional and social style — is hardwired in her brain.

Her Ph.D. was not in science, but she ensures that her scientist partner sees political and social contexts for the science.

In a recent book by Dr. Peter Cook (Mothering Denied) describes better than most others the difficulties that Dr. Jay Belsky has had convincing his fellow scientists that social ideology is passing for, if not dictating, scientific interpretations of studies on this issue (as is true for the bedsharing debate), in favor of dismissing the serious concerns and negative developmental correlates of infants and children being placed for long hours, early in their lives, in daycare centers.

«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.

It took social scientists, for instance, to understand that parents in countries where girls are denied an education were not opposed to educating their daughters in principle, but very often simply wanted a certain kind of education — namely, one which is set within a religious context — for their daughters, and if that wasn't available (which it usually wasn't), they would choose no education at all as the lesser of two perceived evils.

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«But there is not a strong empirical understanding of what scientists believe to be their social responsibilities.»

Researchers have identified a powerful human motive that has not been adequately appreciated by social and behavioral scientists: the drive to make sense of our lives and the world around us.

But I still don't have a clear idea of the issues between scientists (and science start ups) and Social Media.

Please visit Next Scientist if you can not attend the meeting but want to know more about social media for Life Sciences.

French virologist Ali Saïb (pictured left) wasn't born in one of the social spheres that scientists traditionally come from.

But social scientists who do surveys for a living say the data don't pass the smell test.

Scientists would be wise to connect climate change to religious identity and engage with churches because houses of worship are not only engines for social action, but highly effective communication vehicles, said Nisbet.