Sentences with phrase «social science area»

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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.

In the border areas between philosophy, the humanities and the social sciences there are some significant openings.

David Hubbard, for example, in his taped remarks on the future of evangelicalism to a colloquium at Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary in Denver in 1977 noted the following areas of tension among evangelicals: women's ordination, the charismatic movement, ecumenical relations, social ethics, strategies of evangelism, Biblical criticism, Biblical infallibility, contextual theology in non-Western cultures, and the churchly applications of the behavioral sciences.2 If such a list is more exhaustive than those topics which this book has pursued, it nevertheless makes it clear that the foci of the preceding chapters have at least been representative.

Yet, as Giddens remarks, they have intensified, in the social sciences, the subject / object dualisms which have dogged most areas of social analysis (CPST 96 - 130).

Such a view of the role of technical scientific knowledge, broadly conceived to include the social sciences and most other disciplines, in effect cleared a huge area of academic inquiry in which religious considerations would not be expected to appear.

If I were choosing recent books in this area which most deserve to be read outside the country, I would start with Oliver O'Donovan's political theology in The Desire of the Nations; John Milbank's critique of the social sciences in Theology and Social Theory; Timothy Gorringe's provocative political reading of Karl Barth in Karl Barth: Against Hegemony; Peter Sedgwick's The Market Economy and Christian Ethics; Michael Banner's Christian Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems; Duncan Forrester's Christian Justice and Public Policy; and Timothy Jenkins's Religion in Everyday Life: An Ethnographic Approach, which argues with a dense interweaving of theory and empirical study for a social anthropological approach to English religion which has learned much from thesocial sciences in Theology and Social Theory; Timothy Gorringe's provocative political reading of Karl Barth in Karl Barth: Against Hegemony; Peter Sedgwick's The Market Economy and Christian Ethics; Michael Banner's Christian Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems; Duncan Forrester's Christian Justice and Public Policy; and Timothy Jenkins's Religion in Everyday Life: An Ethnographic Approach, which argues with a dense interweaving of theory and empirical study for a social anthropological approach to English religion which has learned much from theSocial Theory; Timothy Gorringe's provocative political reading of Karl Barth in Karl Barth: Against Hegemony; Peter Sedgwick's The Market Economy and Christian Ethics; Michael Banner's Christian Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems; Duncan Forrester's Christian Justice and Public Policy; and Timothy Jenkins's Religion in Everyday Life: An Ethnographic Approach, which argues with a dense interweaving of theory and empirical study for a social anthropological approach to English religion which has learned much from thesocial anthropological approach to English religion which has learned much from theology.

There are three areas in which this change of sensibility, this move from pessimism to optimism, can be discerned — in the social sciences, in the field of art, and in the civil rights movement.

It can put the weight of its educational program solidly behind the movement which aims at disbursing to people in general the precious discoveries of the social sciences in the area of healthy personality growth.

A recent catalogue of Harvard University shows that all students are required to elect three elementary courses in general education, one to be chosen from each of three areas (humanities, social - sciences, and natural sciences).

To list just some of the areas he influenced: agriculture, architecture, art, care of the dying, drama, economics, education, medicine, religion, science, and social organization.

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.

A child needs to be taught many decoding strategies and needs support to use those strategies in every subject area because reading is required in language arts, writing, math, social studies, science.

One of the main problems that I was confronted with on - site, and one which many social scientists encounter too, is that «traditional» Western theory and methodology adequately prepare undergraduate and graduate students for carrying out research in their own societies, but neither prepare them for dealing with difficult research circumstances, nor do they train students for conflict areas in post-traumatic societies.Such history (and political science) courses seem to be functional and have roots in European reality.

Findings also showed it as an empirically and conceptually innovative, diverse, vibrant discipline that in many areas sets the intellectual agenda The UK publishes more than its share of major disciplinary journals; bibliometric indicators reveal international primacy both in volume and citation impact; and a large number of the seminal publications (books as well as articles) continue to have a UK origin UK human geography is radically interdisciplinary and with the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences has become an exporter of ideas and faculty to other disciplines There was confidence that research in human geography had substantial impact on policy and practice and would successfully meet the challenges of the current impact agenda

2) As part of the ESRC Genomics Network (EGN), the Forum acts to: integrate the diverse strands of social science research within and beyond the EGN; develop links between social scientists and scientists working across the entire range of genomic science and technology; connect research in this area to policy makers, business, the media and civil society in the UK and abroad.

For the purposes of this initiative the social sciences are defined as inclusive of the subjects of economics, economic and social history, political science, socio - legal studies, education, psychology, cognitive studies, linguistics, management and business studies, human geography, environmental planning, international studies, area and development studies, social statistics, demography, social science computing, sociology, social anthropology, social policy and social work.

At this juncture, Olsen was dealing with programs in social and behavioral sciences, geosciences, engineering — all of the areas covered by NSF.

The role of the sciences in schools intensified between 1960 and 1980, when areas such as the social sciences (i.e. educational science and psychology) were added to the subjects in disciplines such as history, German, Romance languages, mathematics, etc..

Please remember that if you post any of your personal information in public and / or Social Network areas of the Science Websites, such as in online forums or chat rooms, such information may be displayed to other users of these services and may be collected and used by others over whom we have no control.

Before that, he was an STPF fellow serving at DoD where he led efforts to bridge computational and social sciences in such areas as social network analysis to help foresee emerging threats.

Andrew M. Sugden Deputy Editor, Research; International Managing Editor Education: B.A., D.Phil., University of Oxford Areas of responsibility: General inquiries about editorial procedures and policies (environmental, life, and social sciences); ecology, paleoecology, archaeology, anthropology, conservation E-Mail: [email protected]

has increased its direct contact with the wider public through beefed up social media initiatives, a new email newsletter on trending topics on its site, and improved portals to spotlight important areas such as climate change, marine science, and cancer research.

Barbara R. Jasny Deputy Editor, Emeritus Education: B.A., New York University; Ph.D., The Rockefeller University Areas of responsibility: Genomics, genetics, biomedicine, molecular evolution, public policy, computational social science E-Mail: [email protected]

Lisa D. Chong Deputy Editor, Insights Education: B.A., Cornell University; Ph.D., Yale University Areas of responsibility: General inquiries about Insights section; perspectives in all biological sciences and biomedicine, social science, economics, policy, history of science; editorials, opinions E-Mail: [email protected]

Sethna, who represents not only postdocs in the Akron - Cleveland area but also social science and humanities scholars, says the new law isn't ideal.

To recognize the achievements of the younger cohort of policy researchers, in 2000 the PRI teamed up with the federal funding agencies (CIHR, NSERC, and SSRHC) to establish the Graduate Student Prize, which covers the areas of health and natural sciences, social sciences and humanities, and technology.

To achieve this transformation, scientists must collaborate across disciplines — and not just across closely related disciplines but across all areas of the natural and social sciences, according to Hackmann.

In agricultural applications, that means you also need a strong background in areas such as soils, crop production, pest management, crop biology, and / or social sciences such as economics and sociology, depending on the type of position you're interested in.

The grants cover all areas of the natural and social sciences, engineering, and the humanities.

In the spirit of Lombardy's open innovation model, the Forum will feature professionals from diverse areas: responsible research and innovation; science and technology studies; public communication of science; participative and deliberative methods; public engagement; social innovation; social impact and its assessment; sociology of risk; sociology of science; technology assessment and governance; open innovation, science, and data; data ethics; and bioethics.

This summer, Japan's education minister, Hakubun Shimomura, sent a letter asking all of the country's national universities to eliminate or scale back their humanities and social science programs in favor of departments that «serve areas that better meet society's needs.»

Some areas of science do attract more women than men, such as biology and social and behavioral sciences.

He is a behavioral ecologist and historian of science and his main area of research interest is the evolution of social behavior.

Earlier in the hearing, he had explained that his opposition to the Democratic push for a rejuggling of accounts was based on his belief that the social and behavioral sciences and the geosciences «are areas for which the United States already has a wide lead among nations.»

In these experiments, subjects were asked about their interest in different majors, jobs, and internships in areas such as STEM, business, social sciences, and the humanities.

Both were co-organized by Carnegie Mellon University's Baruch Fischhoff, a leader in bringing together the social, behavioral and decision sciences into this emerging area.

Dewasha is convinced that more emphasis should be placed on educating and directing young aboriginal people into high - demand areas and that increasing the number of aboriginal students in science and technology is an important step toward the community's transition from being social dependents to contributing to the economy.

New advances needed in all pain research areas, from micro perspective of molecular sciences to macro perspective of behavioral and social sciences.

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to enhance the diversity of the mental health research workforce by providing dissertation awards in all research areas within the strategic priorities of the NIMH to individuals from diverse backgrounds underrepresented in biomedical, behavioral, clinical and social sciences research.

As the participating organisations represent the whole landscape of the sciences, including natural sciences, life sciences, humanities and the arts and social sciences, the speakers of the conference will paint a broad canvas of the facts and challenges in various areas and will offer their visions and solutions.

PNNL scientists also have contributed intellectual frameworks that influenced IPCC assessments and the broader climate change community in areas as diverse as integrated assessment, technology's role in mitigation, carbon dioxide capture and storage, and social science contributions in addressing climate change challenges.

Ideally, fellows pursue unconventional projects in new areas of science, engineering and social sciences.

The appointment process is conducted in collaboration with the Swedish universities and science academies, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in particular, in the areas of natural sciences; social sciences, engineering and technology; humanities; and medicine.

The systematic review methodology has been applied as the method of summarizing the scientific information about a topic to many areas in the clinical sciences, social sciences, food safety regulation and environmental sciences [15]--[17].

UEA is also home to to the Climatic Research Unit; the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research; International Development UEA; and the Water Security Research Centre, as well as important research groups in the areas of Science, Society and Sustainability; Global Environmental Justice; and Globalisation and Corporate Social Responsibility.

Goethe University is a research - oriented university in the European financial centre Frankfurt The university was founded in 1914 through private funding, primarily from Jewish sponsors, and has since produced pioneering achievements in the areas of social sciences, sociology and economics, medicine, quantum physics, brain research, and labour law.

Samuel McConkey's areas of expertise can be summarised as follows: HIV, Hepatitis B, HTLV1, Malaria and Tuberculosis, Clinical trials, social sciences.

The School comprises of many experts in the field of public health, producing innovative and dynamic research and projects in the areas of epidemiology, biostatistics, clinical trials, clinical registries, evidence synthesis and health social science.

Dr. Chris McGee serves the Webster Groves school district located in the St. Louis suburban area as a curriculum coordinator for Science and Social Studies.

Students may create several exhibit pieces per module; exhibits must include contributions from each of the core subject areas: language arts, reading, math, and science or social studies plus the related arts teams (art, foreign languages, and library).