Sentences with phrase «social scientists in»

We suggest that research stimulated by such models leads social scientists in new and important directions in understanding the social and emotional development of children in their families.

If sceptics were taken more seriously, if there was a debate... if there was a political, or academic culture which accepted debate... Cardiff wouldn't produce such rank pseudo-science, and social scientists in Nottingham could be more confident about the definition of «space in the ecosystem of climate change discourse», but probably would chose his words — and his coordinates — more carefully.

Participation of social scientists in understanding how farmers view their lands and stewardship practices will likely be key to successful engagement of agriculture in monarch conservation», says Douglas Landis

Conservationists, environmentalists, policymakers, artists, activists, writers, historians, political and cultural theorists, as well as scientists and social scientists in many specialisms, are all responding to its implications.

Taking into consideration broad, economic, technological, and demographic changes, the contributors — all leading social scientists in their fields — suggest that these global transformations will require youth to develop new skills, sensibilities, and habits of mind that are far ahead of what most educational systems can now deliver.

M.C.: My guess is that we have around 100 social scientists in MSR alone these days, worldwide, and I might be very shy with that number.

Several disciplines (e.g., social scientists in demographics, or business and agriculture researchers doing needs analyses) have the unique technical knowledge and skills to assist in survey construction, implementation, and data analysis.

It will bring together expert social, biological and medical scientists to take forward thinking and explore the opportunities for promoting co-operation and collaboration between scientists and social scientists in the field of epigenetics The symposium is being organised by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) with support from the Genomics Forum, and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).

Among the signatories are Dame Julie Mellor, former Chair of the Equal Opportunities Commission, as well as some of Britain's top social scientists in this field — Dr Ann Buchanan (Oxford University), Professor Michael Lamb (Cambridge University), Joan Hunt (Oxford University), Professor Judy Dunn (Institute of Psychiatry), Professor Brid Featherstone (Bradford University), Dr Christine Skinner (York University).

• Social scientists in the 1960s believed it would take decades of consistent government pressure to persuade Americans to change their reproductive habits and have small families.

From Christ as workingman Faludi proceeds to a hasty and confused foray among authorities ranging from the twelfth - century churchman Bernard of Clairvaux to various feminists and social scientists in an effort to discover the psychological purposes served by the various images of Christ.

Annet Abenakyo Mulema, social scientist in gender at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), is applying participatory research and gender - sensitive methods to help households and communities assess their situation and develop solutions to problems.

Annet Abenakyo Mulema, social scientist in gender at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), intends to apply some of the same methods to help rural families understand household and community gender dynamics and their role in managing the families» goats, sheep, and other livestock.

Not exact matches

MIT computational social scientist Iyad Rahwan considers in this talk.

The authors, director of research David Ginsberg and Moira Burke, a research scientist, say that recent research blaming social media for an increase in alienation, depression and anxiety is «compelling.»

When the social scientist and derivatives trader sat down at the same table at a friend's wedding in 2011, they got to talking about their shared interest in «epic failures,» like the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Fukushima nuclear disaster and Hurricane Sandy.

To ensure that the social network keeps innovating, the company launched Pinterest Labs earlier this year, bringing together researchers, scientists, engineers and universities to tackle challenges in machine learning and A.I.

Researchers at the New School for Social Research in New York have determined that reading literary fiction — books that have literary merit and don't fit into a genre — enhances what scientists call «Theory of Mind (ToM), or an ability to understand the mental states of others.

The research threw up a concept known as homophily — a word invented by social scientists to describe the sociological phenomenon in which people are most drawn to others resembling themselves.

And the community of social, behavioral and data scientists who work in marketing and communications have never looked more like...

Levitt has worked tirelessly to build development studies as a multi-disciplinary field of scholarly endeavour, in which development economics plays an essential role but must be complemented by essential contributions from other social scientists and historians.

UC San Diego's push to raise a record $ 2 billion in private donations got a big lift Saturday when a scientist who helped turn Facebook into a social - media giant gave the campus $ 75 million.

And the community of social, behavioural and data scientists who work in marketing and communications have never looked more like the enemy.

We too analyze social behaviour, profiles and conversations, at scale, using data scientists, analysts and anthropologists, in order to unearth insights that can make communications and marketing activities more effective.

With his academic background as social scientist, he is passionate about new trends in urban affairs and the creative labor market, two things which are perfectly combined in the concept of coworking.

The Black Church in the African American Experience by C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya Duke University Press, 519 pages, $ 47.50 When we cut through the many good reasons that lead social scientists to study religion, we find ourselves in the end confronting questions about politics.

If all scientists were constantly attempting to influence the results of their analyses, but had more opportunities to do so the «softer» the science, then we might expect that the social sciences have more papers that confirm a sought - after hypothesis than do the physical sciences, with medicine and biology somewhere in the middle.

They include structural differences in the skeleton, the muscles, the skin, and the brain; differences in posture as - 0sociated with a unique method of locomotion; differences in social or - ganization; and finally the acquisition of speech and tool - using, together with the dramatic increase in intellectual ability which has led scientists to name their own species Ho - m - o sapiens sapiens — wise wise man.

«Tone Analyzer analyzes given text and provides insights about the emotional, social and writing tones reflected in that text,» explained one of the IBM scientists.

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.

«There is a small decline in church attendance over time, but not nearly as large as suggested in popular culture, or even by some social scientists,» said University of Nebraska - Lincoln sociologist Philip Schwadel, who conducted the study.

Although he carefully denied (as social scientists do) that he was making predictions, he wrote that «we may expect these gradual changes in population composition to encourage many, or most, of the following developments.»

Then and now, although much less now, sociologists and political scientists tended to ignore or downplay «the religious factor» in social attitudes and behavior, including politics.

Poverty research also tends to isolate policy deliberations from politics by wrapping them in a cocoon of statistical methods that only trained social scientists can fathom.

Ethically, we are in an age in which there is grave doubt among theologians, philosophers, jurists and social scientists as to whether any universal principles exist which can be reliably known and used by the international community to define torture or terrorism as fundamentally wrong.

Survey social scientists with expertise in surveys and the study of religion to learn if they do or do not have confidence in polls about religion.

In the time since its release, the book has been featured in nearly everything from The Washington Post to BBC Radio to Oprah, spurring off its own website, speaking engagements, and recognition from social scientists and sociologists alikIn the time since its release, the book has been featured in nearly everything from The Washington Post to BBC Radio to Oprah, spurring off its own website, speaking engagements, and recognition from social scientists and sociologists alikin nearly everything from The Washington Post to BBC Radio to Oprah, spurring off its own website, speaking engagements, and recognition from social scientists and sociologists alike.

Barbara Ehrenreich picked up the cue, even if she misinterpreted it, when she questioned in her review in the Nation how «five atheistic social scientists» could counsel Americans to go to church.

To the Christian, such an atheistic approach to human nature is essentially inhuman, since men do not exist without a fundamental religious vocation any more than they exist in this life without physical needs, individuality or communities, all aspects of the human condition eagerly studied by social scientists.

That having been said, however, social scientists who understand both the usefulness and limitations of their craft know that the religious phenomenon, at its heart and in its totality, escapes the nets of social theory and analysis.

My own view of all of this, as a practicing social scientist interested in the relationship between religious faith and empirical science, is that the general perspective taken by Evans - Pritchard, Douglas, and the Turners is not only entirely reasonable but close to the best account we might give.

No church I've ever been in has ever said 1 thing about «cheap grace» nor have the changes in society EVER been linked by ONE historian or social scientist to «cheap grace».

You state that you are a scientist (perhaps in the social sciences?

Although, most Ph.D. candidates in the social sciences have well developed writing skills, which you do not), yet your post is peppered with terms used in ways no natural scientist would use them.

As a social scientist, I also question the assertion that fundamentalism arises or gains prominence in times of crisis, actual or perceived.

Gods will is for us humans today to evolved to a level of conciousness that will prepare us for the challenges of our future survival, Scientists now predicts of hardships in the future due to over population and changes to the natural environment.and that is happening now with activists through out the world are reminding us of protecting nature.That is why we need a phsychological revolution to hasten the evolution of consciousness that will address the problems.Ideological and philosophical enlightenment had the past great minds to develop ideas and belief because God sent them to reality in their times.Abraham, Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, and many other religious leaders to teach humanity the doctrines that God willed to be appropriate and applicable in those periods of their existence, Also great philosophers in another dimension of social involvement were born to interprete and connect philosophically as the second element of our conscience, Kant, Marx and countless of them also were born.To complete the triangular structure or dimension of our conscience is knowledge.

The social gospel spawned ethicists who became social scientists, or at least read social science, in the interest of social transformation.

But Kierkegaard was in his own way and in his own time a kind of social scientist.

This assertion is not meant to imply that religion is either false or ultimately nothing more than the fabrication of human minds — indeed, Berger argues in other writings that the transcendent seems to break through humanly constructed worlds, as it were, from the outside, However, the social scientist must recognize the degree to which religion, like all symbol systems, involves human activity.

This implies a recognition not only of the central importance of valuing in human life but also of the way in which the values of the psychologist and the social scientist affect their methods.