Sentences with phrase «social historian who»

Ken Worpole is a writer and social historian who has lived in Hackney for more than forty years.

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This program gives Wilson many opponents: anti-functionalists among theorists and historians of religion (it's no accident that among theorists of religion Wilson chooses arch-functionalist Émile Durkheim as his hero); evolutionary theorists who don't think that such theory is usefully applicable to social groups; those who think it is applicable to social groups, but conclude that religious groups are maladaptive; and theological realists, who think the whole enterprise vitiated by its procedural naturalism.

Wasserstein cites almost all historians of European thought who are critical of Arendt, but he cites no political scientist or social scientist who responded to her work in a positive way.

Le Goff's body of work, then, stands as a challenge to historians who argue for the Italian Renaissance and Reformation as a break that unleashed a series of forces, intended or not, ultimately leading to the current social imaginary.

A nostalgic reminiscence from the Clinton years: Social historians, the addlepated media, and other leftists have delighted in categorizing those of us who are «post-war baby boomers,» as self - indulged, morally challenged, half - wits who follow the remnant of the Grateful Dead around in....

Historian David Bebbington suggests a respected paradigm for those who identify as an evangelical: a transformed life through following Jesus, faith demonstrated through missionary and social reform efforts, a regard for the Bible as ultimate authority, and a central focus on the sacrificial death of Jesus.

Social historians proceed in the same way as 19th - century novelists, and both differ from historians who base their work on the social sciSocial historians proceed in the same way as 19th - century novelists, and both differ from historians who base their work on the social scisocial sciences.

Yet somebody thought it would be a good idea to airlift this ancient spectacle to Las Vegas, where any old - timer who once saw the Rat Pack is considered a social historian.

Stereotypes of older people are being dashed,» says biological anthropologist Helen Fisher, who helped facilitate the study, along with social historian Stephanie Coontz and evolutionary biologist Justin Garcia.

A book we reported on earlier this month by historian of science Alice Dreger also describes some severe personal and professional consequences suffered much more recently by scientists who became involved, through their research, in disputes with strong ideological and social overtones.

The portrayal of women in the Grimms is a historic survey that reflects real social conditions, and was originally told to the Grimm Brothers by women, according to historian Marina Warner, who has written extensively about the Grimms from the feminist perspective.

We have high editorial standards — including a strict conflict of interest policy (below)-- and our team is made up of artists, curators, and art historians who thoughtfully examine contemporary arts and art practices where they overlap with cultural and social issues.

Considered in terms of the social history of American art, however, he's an important figure, because, as the art historian David Driskell writes in the exhibition catalog, he was «among a small number of African - American painters in the nation working abstractly at the time, and he was among the few artists of color who were represented by a mainstream gallery in New York.»

In it, Steinberg declared that by inventing what he dubbed the «flatbed picture plane,» Rauschenberg derived a «pictorial surface that let the world in again» — a bold and profound claim from an art historian who had upon their emergence in the 1950s loudly decried the Combines.2 Implicitly contrasting Rauschenberg's achievement with the conventions of Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting, Steinberg claims for Rauschenberg not simply a great formal advancement, but one that forced a shift in the discourse of visual art to include once more the social world.

to some of the qualities of books that are well known by every bibliophile, librarian and book historian, but not well known for most people who fall somewhere in between: the social value of books, their virus - like valences, and their unique physicality.