Sentences with phrase «social ecology of»

Society of pediatric psychology presidential address: Toward a social ecology of pediatric psychology

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study used an experimental, longitudinal field trial involving random assignment to the Family Check - Up (FCU) to explore the social ecology of adolescent antisocial behavior.

The social ecology of middle childhood: Family support, friendship quality, and self - esteem.

This study used an experimental, longitudinal field trial involving random assignment to the Family Check - Up (FCU) to explore the social ecology of adolescent antisocial behavior.

Working with white wood glue and multi-coloured inks, where their flows on her canvases are directed by gravity and the nature of the materials as much as by the artist's own hand, she opens her process up not just for scrutiny but for deep engagement with the audience and with the political and social ecology of the world around her.

American women religious today still seem not to have discovered what it is that might assuage their longings, and the seriously ill social ecology of their lives is very much in danger of permanent demise.»

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I am not sure what more I would add... That we need to develop utterly new moral, ethical and social philosophies that recognize human consciousness as embedded in a process of evolutionary ecology which is in turn embedded in a thermodynamic process.

By linking ecology with social morality, Laudato Si utterly rejects the pagan conception of environmentalism, which retains its affection for the sexual revolution.

The unique contribution a Christian ecology can make to the earth is the assertion that we can insist on a reasonable harmony with our world without abandoning our commitment to social justice for all members of our unique and self - consciously alienated species.

The present Indian government is committed to a pattern of development which is destructive of ecology and destructive of social justice and it has to be fought.

At every level — world - political, social, economic, class, family, individual — the ecology of existence reveals itself.

Presumably he means by this that it is for the Greens to think through the relation of the contributions of deep ecology to those of social, political, and economic analysis, feminists, and liberationists.

The social and spiritual processes of a community's response to change drive Ammerman to use the biological metaphor of ecology.»

At the same time, one wonders if there are unwanted theological implications involved in treating American congregations merely from the viewpoint of religious ecology and social change.

(6) The setting for the dialogue was a national gathering of Presbyterians with deep concerns for issues of social justice and ecology.

These groups were less concerned about market fluctuations and more concerned with issues of social equity, environmental health and having fun, which meant they unwittingly epitomised the goals of political ecology, by challenging the dominant agricultural methods of production and marketing.

Committed to ecology, social justice grassroots democracy and non-violence, Greens are renewing democracy in the United States through community - based organizing without the support of corporate donors.

Nonviolence is a core principle of the Green Party and was adopted as part of the party's official principles, along with grassroots democracy, ecology and social and economic justice.

The Green Party of New York is committed to the principals of ecology, grassroots democracy, nonviolence and social and economic justice.

We must build the electoral arm of the peace, democracy, ecology, and social justice movements — the Green Party.

«We were able to show clever lemurs — some of our earliest primate relatives — increasing their social centrality as the result of their problem - solving,» said Daniel Rubenstein, Princeton's Class of 1877 Professor of Zoology and a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and the lead author on the April 5 paper in the journal Current Biology.

The work applies expertise in ecology, hydrology, geography, and the social sciences to decision - making about urban landscapes and the valuation of ecosystem services, among other policy issues.

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Although the general approach and results are «positive and useful,» says economist Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University, «we don't learn very much about how levels of community development, government policies, local ecology, prevalent farm systems, and social organization influence the outcomes.»

«More social marmots are less likely to survive over the winter, and they live shorter lives, on average,» said lead author Daniel Blumstein, UCLA professor of ecology and evolutionary biology.

«Humans are crazy for Facebook, but our research suggests that primates have been relying on the face to tell friends from competitors for the last 50 million years and that social pressures have guided the evolution of the enormous diversity of faces we see across the group today,» said Michael Alfaro, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in the UCLA College of Letters and Science and senior author of the study.

«The social environment will determine how visible you are to predators,» says Lancaster, an ecology graduate student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, whose finding is the first known instance in which a mother's hormones were found to change a fundamental aspect of her offspring's appearance.

«Our results indicate that when animals respond to each other's vocalizations, they are in fact also working on maintaining their social bonds,» said Kulahci, who worked with her co-authors and doctoral advisers Asif Ghazanfar, a professor of psychology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, and Daniel Rubenstein, the Class of 1877 Professor of Zoology and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology.

Besides discussing empirical and theoretical findings on the roles of hormones in casual and crucial social interactions, the contributors link their topics to related fields such as reproductive ecology and life - history theory.

Research interests: Primate behavioral ecology, between - group competition, evolution of within - group social relationships

The emergent spatial structure of cell lineages during biofilm growth is important to numerous other facets of microbial ecology, especially for the evolutionary trajectories of social phenotypes [16].

Body mass is also tied to an animal's physiology (including speed of metabolism and length of pregnancy), ecology (diet, home - range size) and behaviour (social status, aggression).

The project includes the subjects of human ecology, philosophy, political science, sociology of law, social geography, economic history, physical geography and ecosystems analysis.

She is also a Nereus fellow, which means she is part of the collaborative Nereus program between six leading marine science institutes with the aim of undertaking research that advances our comprehensive understandings of the global ocean systems across the natural and social sciences, from oceanography and marine ecology to fisheries economics and impacts on coastal communities.

«Every day human beings make choices among multiple options in how to respond to various social situations,» says lead author of the current study Sergey Gavrilets, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and mathematics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in a statement.

He has developed research approaches that integrate a range of disciplines including soil science, ecology, development studies and environmental social sciences and has led inter-disciplinary research projects across African drylands.

Professor Tsutsui specializes in the behavior, chemical ecology, genetics, and genomics of social insects, particularly the invasive Argentine ant and the European honey bee.

His book Demonic Males popularized ideas he has developed in scholarly research focused on the influence of ecology on the evolution of primate social behavior.

We do not mean to be Apocalyptic, but, in the catalog of wars launched by states and of examples of dysfunctional management of our global ecology, we should also include the social wars that have broken out more or less openly, revealing an almost permanent demonstration of exclusion and of economic and social inequalities in the low - income districts of towns, both large and small, in every continent.

Ashwani Vasishth (USA) is an Associate Professor in Environmental Planning, and directs the Master of Arts in Sustainability Studies at Ramapo College and is also engaged with urban ecology projects from within a social - ecological - systems perspective, at http://sustainablejc.org.

The 4 dimensions of sustainability (ecology, economy, the social and the cultural) are all integrated into a holistic approach.

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Sara Lawrence - Lightfoot, a sociologist, examines the culture of schools, the broad ecology of education, and the relationship between human development and social change.

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It reflects an understanding of civil society that views the state as the guarantor of a rich social ecology, not its chief actor.

The student who forgets to do her book report or math problems as homework may get absorbed in a learning project that involves interviewing a grandparent for social studies (interpersonal), taking pictures of animals in the neighborhood for an ecology unit (spatial - naturalist), or writing a song on an electronic keyboard about a character in a short story (musical).

Out - of - school time programs have the opportunity to provide affirming and supportive environments for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning youth facing a variety of stressors and risks due to victimization that occurs within their social ecologies.

The theoretical basis of Positive Action describes how the physical, intellectual, social, and emotional domains of the whole child interact with the different ecologies that child is in: school, family, and community.

These new networks of actors creates positive communal relationships and social ecologies.

Social ecologies are the collective of environments in which development occurs: for children, this includes school, home, and neighborhood (Lawson and Lawson 2013, 441).