Sentences with phrase «social change theory»

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He explained his findings in nontechnical terms in Slate magazine: «Although doubt will always remain about what causes a change in social custom, the technology - shock theory does fit the facts.

Focusing on schizophrenia as a particular exemplar of this change, Luhrmann examines the evolution of psychiatry from psychoanalysis (mental illnesses are caused by emotional conflict) to a purely biomedical scheme (mental illnesses are caused by genes) to present theories, which incorporate both the biological and the social causes (and treatments) of mental illness.

Lentricchia, whose earlier work earned him the epithet «the Dirty Harry of literary theory, is the author of Criticism and Social Change (1983), which urges us to regard all literature as «the most devious of rhetorical discourses (writing with political designs upon us all), either in opposition to or in complicity with the power in place.»

Lifeworld colonization theory credits secular cultural patterns (e.g., rational communication processes) with an active role in social change, but it minimizes the importance of religion.

Theories of modernization, despite the rather serious attacks to which they have been subjected in recent years, have been so prominent in the social sciences, and have played such an important role in our thinking about social change, that any effort to consider the changing relations between states and religious institutions must begin here.

would require a detailed theory of the dynamics of social change — a task that is beyond the scope of this discussion, even if I were equipped to carry it out.

There is a determined attempt to impose gender theories in many countries — with attempts to change language or to castigate parents for bringing up children as male or female, as if the structures of language and grammar bore no necessary relation to human biology and were just a social construct of a patriarchal or «straight» society — and forgetting that «non-binary» language is itself a construct and an attempt to ideologically cleanse language to suit a particular theory.

Factors in the struggle of a people to exist as a corporate body are set forth in the four - function paradigm of Talcott Parsons.10 Although the adequacy of his analysis is challenged by other theories, especially those focused upon social change, 11 Parsons's model provides a useful delineation of the actions implicated in a group's toil to perpetuate itself.

Nevertheless, it takes seriously the developments in critical Bible studies, the new insights gained from the social sciences of cultural anthropology and sociology, the impact of technology and political theory in rapid cultural change and the issues raised by cross-cultural communication on a global scale.

Deneen, to the contrary, argues that social contract theory radically changed the founders» conception of natural law — the «common good,» for example, was no longer an objective human good knowable to reason, but merely a collection of personal preferences.

Although Pius XII was influenced by the fundamental changes in economic theory initiated by Keynes, it was not until Pope John XXIII in 1961 published Mater et Magistra (Mother and Teacher) that a new methodology and the identification of the problem of «development» emerged, requiring substantial changes in the social teaching of the Church which were expressed in Pacem in Terris (Peace throughout the World) in 1963.

To move beyond mere theories of church growth or models of social change, one will need to supplement this fine study with additional materials.

I thought Evangel readers would appreciate knowing about my Christianity Today interview with James Davison Hunter, Professor of Religion, Culture, and Social Theory at the University of Virginia and author of To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World (Oxford, 2010), which promises to be the most important book written on Christian cultural engagement in the last 50 years.

I have slightly improved the thrust of this quotation: Whitehead actually (somewhat embarrassingly) claims that the «struggle for existence gives no hint why there should be cities» even though Hobbes» social theory provides just such an account, illustrating that cultural change and even transformation per se has necessarily little to do with the issue of evolution.

In tracing broad processes of social and cultural change, these theories also offer some guidance in thinking about the possible direction of changes in the future.

Political theory needs to deal as much or more with the question of the type of social change that is itself healthy as with the question of the goal that is being sought through such changes or the principles to which one supposes changes should conform.

41 The pattern in this section of formulating Christian principles by which both capitalist and Marxist theory and practice are to be judged parallels the work of Peter Berger in Pyramids of Sacrifice; Political Ethics and Social Change (New York: Basic Books, 1974).

The theory and practice of love in direct action for social change received new impetus in the 20th century.

However, in light of changing social realities in which mothers play an increasingly larger role in providing financially for their children, more research is being done on the role of fathers in attachment theory.

Stakeholders» input was integrated into development of A Healthy Start for Minnesota Children: Supporting Opportunities for Life - Long Health, a theory of change that depicts how public understanding, health in all policies, and community innovation lead to 1) safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments and 2) social and economic security, which in turn will help the state achieve its ultimate outcome — that every Minnesota child, prenatal to age three years, will thrive in their family and community and achieve their full potential regardless of their race, where they live, or their family's income.

Models provide a kind of map for thinking about the overall direction of political change, which is undeniably useful, but these theories require considerable fleshing out in terms of their understanding of social life.

In his book, Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives, Professor David Sloan Wilson of Binghamton University in New York state cites an example, from the Lest culture of Micronesia in the 1930s, that shows how gossip can be a first line of defense against social aberration.

Drawing on Greenfield's theory of social change and human development, the authors hypothesized that the use of specific words in Chinese literature would wax and wane as a reflection of psychological adaptation to sociocultural change.

«The results indicated that changes in social relationships are dependent not only on two individuals, but significantly on third parties, which underscores the importance of structural balance theory in explaining the evolution of complex natural social systems,» Ilany said, who was a doctoral student at Tel Aviv University when the research was begun.

The potential power of structural balance theory is its ability to predict patterns in the structure of the whole social network and also predict changes that occur over time, as unstable triads are expected to change to stable ones.

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To evaluate the theories which claim that religion can act as a force for social change.

Learning outcomes: To outline and evaluate the theories which claim that religion is a conservative force, preventing social change.

Unless we think there are big and important genetic differences across countries, the variation in effort across countries has to be explained by factors that are social constructed and, at least in theory, could be changed.

The Theory of Change, presented by Child and Youth Finance International, proposes that financial, social and livelihoods education, combined with access to appropriate financial services, increases financial capability and social empowerment, ultimately leading to greater economic citizenship.

In 1993, political scientists Frank Baumgartner and Bryan Jones introduced this theory to the study of public policy, and it has since become a common lens through which to view change in social systems.

Its strategy draws on advances in the biological, behavioral, and social sciences to: (1) identify causal mechanisms that influence developmental trajectories; (2) formulate theories of change about how to produce better outcomes; and (3) design and test new intervention approaches and measure their effectiveness in reducing barriers to learning and strengthening the foundations of lifelong physical and mental health.

David Armstrong continued: «Identifying two indicators - emotional intelligence and social skills - and mapping these to the Achieving Schools Theory of Change, is an important first step in measuring the longer term outcomes of the programme, such as reduced risk of antisocial behaviour and spending time in prison and reduced risk of mental ill - health and long - term illness.

Proponents of a core curriculum were called «reactionary in political and social affairs,» whereas progressive educators were «radicals who advocate their educational theories and practices to reconstruct society and change the social order.»

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The by - product of the theory should be to change our schools from places that serve «social utilities» to places where boredom is reduced, living enhanced,...

Institutional theories take a different view, arguing that schools (like other major social service sectors) are so constrained by public expectations that they have limited options for becoming very different.137 Public agencies that have limited autonomy, owing to extensive public oversight, find it difficult to develop their own policies and initiatives for change.138 This does not mean that successful leadership activity in schools is impossible, but it does not come easily.

While the impressions presented in this article of the changing landscape of technology and its impact on social studies teaching and learning have been informed by recent theory and research, we also sought to represent, in snapshot form, a slice of the thinking of social studies teacher educators.

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He is a member of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Peer Review College, Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), co-convenor of the BERA SIG Social Theory and Education, and Associate of the Robert Owen Centre for Educational Change, University of Glasgow.

Donald T. Campbell's 1976 paper presented a theory about social change that is now widely revered as Campbell's Law: «The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision - making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.»

The contending theory asserts that black students underperform because they are likely to be poor and underprivileged, and that addressing the academic achievement gap therefore requires first changing the economic and social conditions in which these students grow up.

But Shore stresses that «there's a whole other theory of social change» that says if a majority of charters are independent, and there are all kinds of different flowers growing, «why are we trying to make them all roses?»

By examining the diversity of internal groups and theories of social change within unions, I contest the assumption that teachers» unions are unitary actors simply «blocking» education reform efforts.

According to Giroux (2006), the central goal of critical pedagogy is «educating students to become critical agents actively questioning and negotiating the relationship between theory and practice, critical analysis and common sense, and learning and social change» (p. 5).

Youth development and learning though youth media, multiliteracies and second language learning, community - school - university collaborations for social change, Latina / o education, sociocultural and activity theories of learning and human development, ethnographies of communication, online versus f2f environments in CLD teacher preparation.

3) Environmental education — leveraging social psychological theories to address issues of sustainability, conservation, and climate change especially for adolescents.

Mobile Phones: The Sensei Way to Weight Loss Originally launched in November, 2007, Weight Loss Sensei is among the first «intelligent applications» available based on Social Cognitive Theory and the science of behavioral informatics — the use of technology to promote behavior change.

It is predicted that participants in the social skills training group that incorporates work with dogs will exhibit greater levels of change in social skills, perspective taking, theory of mind and decreased feelings of isolation when compared with those participants receiving the traditional social skills training.