Sentences with phrase «own social science evidence»

With less panache, but with equal force and even further empirical social science evidence, her method resembles Roland Barthes» Mythologies in its outlines of the deep structure of the contemporary beliefs and practices surrounding our most deeply held moral codes about human sexual desire — or should I say eros.

Just as we encourage parents in intact families to share care of their children, the social science evidence on the development of healthy parent — child relationships, and the long - term benefits of healthy parent — child relationships, supports the view that shared parenting should be the norm for post-divorce parenting plans for children of all ages, including infants and toddlers.

The weight of social science evidence demonstrates that racially diverse schools are associated with achievement in math and reading, better critical thinking, and increased intellectual engagement for students from all racial groups.

Having been involved in the legal defense team that provided social science evidence in Gratz and Grutterat University of Michigan, I...

Having been involved in the legal defense team that provided social science evidence in Gratz and Grutterat University of Michigan, I read the court transcripts for the Fisher case with great interest.

Advocates market favorable social science evidence and enlist sympathetic researchers as spokespersons.

See Hallinan, Diversity Effects on Student Outcomes: Social Science Evidence, 59 Ohio St. L. J. 733 (1998).

2001)(hereinafter Powell); Hallinan, Diversity Effects on Student Outcomes: Social Science Evidence, 59 Ohio St. L. J. 733, 741 - 742 (1998)(hereinafter Hallinan).

She has worked with national organizations to present social science evidence in U.S. Supreme Court cases on racial integration, on state and national initiatives to improve interracial relations in schools, and with non-governmental and international organizations to evaluate applied programs designed to reduce racial and ethnic conflict.

And we believe, based on strong social science evidence, that SEL has particular power to unlock a broad range of human capacities — intellectual and emotional — which prepare children to co-create a kinder, more interconnected, and equitable future.

This paper is another piece of social science evidence reinforcing the case for having more teachers of color and for training teachers to be more culturally responsive.

My issue with «indirect effects» is not with the causal relationship per se (though certainly rights deprivations must be reasonably foreseeable), but with the necessity of relying upon social science evidence to establish a rights breach.

These have been the hallmarks of the Federal government's reform of the criminal justice system, but the policies have been more politically motivated than good policy or social science evidence.

For example in Ishaq v Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2015 FC 156, (a case about whether a woman could wear her niqab during a citizenship ceremony), six public interest groups — including the Ontario Human Rights Commission, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the National Council of Canadian Muslims — were refused permission to intervene, as the court determined that they could not advance their proposed arguments without social science evidence to back them up; nor could the court take judicial notice (facts and materials are accepted on a common sense basis without being formally admitted in evidence) of any of the facts necessary to support the arguments.

The direction these changes set out for the Canadian criminal justice system — jail more often, for longer, with more lasting consequences — is a dangerous route that is unsupported by the social science evidence and has already failed in other countries.

This argument was based largely on social science evidence from the province's expert witness, an addiction specialist at the Homewood Health Centre in Guelph.

I worried, then, about the loss of transparency and accountability that would result from requiring appellate judges, including those of the Supreme Court itself, to defer to trial - level fact - finding, including in the area of «legislative facts» consisting largely of complex social science evidence.

This jurisprudence, not coincidentally, is also largely characterized by judicial unwillingness to engage with relevant facts and social science evidence.

Were Justice Zuker's references to social science evidence in the context of assessing the complainant's testimony the type that under public scrutiny would give rise to a determination based on generalizations rather than specific demonstrations?

In this context, the use of social science evidence was largely directed towards bolstering the assessment of the complainant's testimony, largely by dismissing many traditional lines of attack used to discredit witnesses in these cases.

Not only does this view of family discount the experiences of men and women, like me, who grew up in loving but broken unmarried families, it also ignores the social science evidence on the best family structure for child well - being.

And we believe, based on strong social science evidence, that SEL has particular power to unlock a broad range of human capacities — intellectual and emotional — which prepare children to co-create a kinder, more interconnected, and equitable future.

First, the social science evidence on how healthy parent - child relationships normally develop, and the long - term benefits of those relationships, supports the view that shared parenting should be the norm for children of all ages, including very young children, whose parents live apart from each other.

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«Based on evidence gathered from focus groups and interviews conducted in U.S. coal communities, we argue that coal communities that have experienced mine closures have already begun an economic and social transition, one that is based on reshaping their culture and sense of identity,» wrote professors of Indiana University in a paper published in the March issue of Energy Research and Social Scsocial transition, one that is based on reshaping their culture and sense of identity,» wrote professors of Indiana University in a paper published in the March issue of Energy Research and Social ScSocial Science.

There is no area in social science in which the evidence stacks up so completely on one side: marriage and traditional family life are associated with good outcomes in terms of health, wealth, and other indicators of well - being.

Since human forms of relation are evidence of mind, it might appear that the social sciences are concerned only with man's mental nature.

The «soft» social sciences, which includes spirituality as well as psychology and sociology, rely on the statistical evidence that has been tested in the crucible of human experience.

since God made homosexuals, and all these heterosexuals keep producing gay kids and we have evidence of homosexuality occurring in another animals as well as neuroscience and social sciences since 1963 stating that being gay isn't a disease but a natural orientation and since the writers of the bible would have no clue that it could be an orientation (just as they could have no idea that the world isn't flat, not up on pillars, nor is it surrounded by water, nor was the earth created from a leviathan carcass) thus it is permissible and subject to the same statutes heterosexuals are.

This is further evidenced in the negative relationship between faith and the academic fields of humanities and social science.

His survey of the social science literature on the topic usefully, if sometimes turgidly, compiles the growing evidence that homeschooled children learn more than their counterparts, at least to the extent that standardized tests measure learning, and are emotionally healthier as well, at least to the extent that psychologists» «self - esteem and self - concept» scales truly capture emotional health.

Today, the movement has realized that science is much more likely to reach an audience which is increasingly looking for demonstrable evidence from which to base their position on social issues.

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.

Highly publicized reactions to science and social science on the part of religious conservatives, as evidenced by lawsuits concerning the teaching of evolution in public schools and court cases challenging the influence of «secular humanism» on school textbooks, suggest that Habermas's forces of «secular rationality» have by no means carried the day.

Social science has accumulated a great deal of evidence about how to improve parenting.

In my opinion what has happened in this area is that a kind of social ideology is now embedded within the medical paradigm, to the extent that that social judgments are masquerading as scientific judgments making the science a pseudo science, as a relatively small number of people have been placed in a position wherein they can choose what relevant lines of evidence (and what counter arguments) are acceptable and which are not, as deemed by themselves.

In addition to social science research, much anecdotal evidence shows that youth in foster care benefit from contact with their fathers; youth often reveal that they value their relationship with their fathers, or wish they had more opportunities to get to know their fathers.

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.

Evidence from the United States and Italy», Social Science Computer Review, 33 (1), 2015, 3 - 20

The report — «If you could do one thing...» Nine local actions to reduce health inequalities — brings together evidence from a wide range of social sciences, and has been led by a steering group of academic and policy experts.

As evidenced by the social science research referenced in the pending legislation, those slurs have negative consequences for groups targeted by the epithets.

The reality is more complex, she said, and will require more use of sound social science and evidence - based approaches to sort out the allure of fake news.

Moreover, the entire article is gainsaid by a massive meta - analysis study by Northwestern University psychologist Michael Bailey and his colleagues published in the September issue of the peer - reviewed journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest, showing that «there is considerably more evidence supporting nonsocial causes of sexual orientation than social causes.»

So far, however, there is no evidence that these trends have created a shortage of scientific workers, says economist William Butz, the former head of social and behavioral science research at NSF, now at RAND's Science and Technology Policy Insscience research at NSF, now at RAND's Science and Technology Policy InsScience and Technology Policy Institute.

The paper, «Discrimination and Drinking: A Systematic Review of the Evidence,» was published online in June in Social Science & Medicine.

With increasing evidence that many studies in biomedicine and social science do not stand the test of time, journalists are facing new challenges in reporting and interpreting the results of such research, NPR science correspondent Richard Harris told a University of Texas audience on Nov. 2.

And realize that science can give us evidence, but what we do with that evidence is fundamentally a social question.

«Apparently, the national conversation really is one conversation, at least among those able to participate in social media; even if they do not interact with each other, the evidence indicates that they are being influenced in similar ways by the news media,» Harvard University professor Gary King and his colleagues write in the Science paper.

The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative at Harvard University gathers disciplines such as public health, medicine, social science, and management to promote evidence - based approaches to humanitarian assistance.

The speech and statement both rattled off achievements in agriculture, information technology, materials, energy, population and health, resources, and the environment as evidence that the ministry's basic science program, according to the statement, «has solved a host of major sci - tech problems and provided important sci - tech support for economic and social development.»

The experiment is the first to suggest that emotions expressed via online social networks influence the moods of others, the researchers report in «Experimental Evidence of Massive - Scale Emotional Contagion through Social Networks,» published online this month in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Science) Social Scsocial networks influence the moods of others, the researchers report in «Experimental Evidence of Massive - Scale Emotional Contagion through Social Networks,» published online this month in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Science) Social ScSocial Networks,» published online this month in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Science) Social ScSocial Science.