Sentences with phrase «social scientists on»

It certainly took some stretching of disciplinary practices and conversation on the part of the social scientists on our team.

Be sure to register to attend our next S&T Policy Fellowship chat session focused on opportunities for social scientists on June 25 at 2:00 p.m. EDT.

Fortunately, there are a number of articles written by social scientists on the subject.

As the only social scientist on the Board, they hope to provide a broader reach beyond the increasingly common focus on bioscience postdoc career tracks.

In the course of the interviews, culturally meaningful and important categories are meant to emerge so that an appropriate idiom or dialogue is developed.49 This approach generally requires a social scientist on the team who has a first hand understanding of the qualitative research methodology involved, as well as staff with a first hand understanding of the communities to understand the group's recent history and cultural context, and be able to correctly evaluate what norms and values underlie a particular person's expressed opinion or action.50

If you had a social scientist on your shoulder for a day, how many positive interactions would he count between you and your spouse?

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Social scientists, psychiatrists, and conflict mediators around the globe have relied on this tool for years to help solve marital woes, foster better communication between psychologists and their patients, and even mediate international conflicts between warring parties.

Plenty of thinkers have argued that time abroad increases important skills for business success like comfort with ambiguity, confidence when confronted with the unfamiliar, and accelerated learning, but the team of social scientists out of Rice University, Columbia, and the University of North Carolina behind this study wanted to test the effects of extended travel abroad on self knowledge specifically.

The analysis, done by Millennial Branding and analytics company Identified.com, was created by a team of data scientists crunching raw information from 4 million Facebook profiles of young people to uncover how they are representing themselves on Facebook — and whether they're using the social network for business purposes.

The more time young adults spend on social media, the more likely they are to feel isolated, a report from scientists at the University of Pittsburgh reveals.

Fellow scientists offered their condolences on social media, including the renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Effective programs — the kind found on the National Registry — are usually created by psychologists and other social scientists who are better at research than marketing their efforts.

Or try playing on what social scientists call the rule for reciprocation.

Years ago, when I was researching an article on research into stress, one social scientist passed on a simple tip: «At some point every day, you have to say, «No more work.

One social scientist indirectly concluded as much when he described Lutherans as «indistinct,» «hard to identify,» «unobtrusive,» as well as «on the fringe.»

However, the major problem with this is, as smart as Richard Dawkins may be, he's not some super social scientist (based on my interactions with scientists, and I am one, we're not the most socially blessed people around), and the reaction to such acts from non-atheists are probably hurting the cause more than anything.

Other social scientists have resisted the exclusive focus on the economic process as well as the overly benign interpretation of its effects.

Some evolutionary social scientists refer to our species as «the moral animal,» which I suppose means that we have the potential to reflect on the affects of our behavior rather than simply be blindly driven by survivalist insticts.

Social scientists have traditionally focused on a rather limited range of organizational forms in religion — specifically, churches, sects, and cults.

As a result, certain intangibles — such as values based on our more noble human impulses — are gradually entering the scope of leading thinkers, including historians, social scientists, businessmen and bankers — and even economists.

So here's what I think about the election: The forecasts — based on complicated models — found in the APSA's PS by real social scientists — with the exception of the one by the astute James Campbell — are, as usual, too timid in terms of picking up the impending surge....

Thus on both the social and the individual levels the proposal of a simple transfer of the ethical attitudes of science appears to underestimate the complexity of ethical issues, to idealize the purity of the scientist's motives, and to provide no adequate dynamic for concern about the welfare of others.

In the May 2007 issue of the University of California Press journal, Social Problems, the sociologists Elaine Ecklund (University at Buffalo) and Christopher Scheitle (Pennsylvania State University) have presented their findings on «Religion among Academic Scientists.»

More recently, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) established a Committee on the Social Aspects of Science, whose 1956 report spoke of «the pressing need that scientists concern themselves with social action» and urged scientific organizations to abandon their traditional isolation from public proSocial Aspects of Science, whose 1956 report spoke of «the pressing need that scientists concern themselves with social action» and urged scientific organizations to abandon their traditional isolation from public prosocial action» and urged scientific organizations to abandon their traditional isolation from public problems.

Even the lonely task of the scientist is social, for the material on which he works as well as his personal life are products of the community.

Erzen is a social scientist at Ohio State University, and she reports on her year spent with participants in a California ministry called New Hope.

I suspected when I first heard this claim that the Committee on the Status of Black Americans, loaded as it was with social scientists, had demolished a straw man, a bloodless construct so rigidly defined as to be meaningless in terms of the actual lives of the humans who inhabit the nation's ghettos and who, for the most part, make up what has come to be called the underclass.

Although much research has examined the possible genetic, hormonal, developmental, social, and cultural influences on sexual orientation, no findings have emerged that permit scientists to conclude that sexual orientation is determined by any particular factor or factors.

And yet, the very grounds on which these controversies have been fought — arguing for the «scientific» basis of creationism, making use of the «rational - legal» procedures supplied by the modern court system, and drawing on social scientists for «expert testimony» — all point to the considerable degree to which even religious conservatives have accommodated to the norms of secular rationality.

One social scientist recently replied to a flyer on behalf of a political action committee advocating ethically consistent life commitments in political life (embracing protection for the unborn, welfare reform, and nuclear disarmament):

Even after social scientists had accumulated data demonstrating that the optimistic predictions concerning the impact of divorce and single - parent families on women and children had failed to materialize, most mainline churches ignored this evidence, continuing to say little or nothing about the issues.

Carter's fascination with the West leads him on to learned discussion of Frederick Jackson Turner's «frontier thesis» (which, despite flaws, Carter holds to be the most influential statement ever by an historian of America), along with the views of Russian ecologists, American social scientists, and a wide variety of conservationists.

What social scientist would press social policy on that data size for the survival of the species?

In all these sources, as well as a sizable and growing group of religiously open scientists (including medical professionals and social scientists) who are often neither New Age / Eastern nor Christians, there is a particular, intense focus on learning about the nature of consciousness.

It mixed some longer substantive talks with several short talks from Catholic social scientists reporting on their findings, and interesting conversations with people there.

This was a question posed on a private singles group moderated by social scientist Bella DePaulo, author of Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and -LSB-...]

This was a question posed on a private singles group moderated by social scientist Bella DePaulo, author of Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After.

But the modern, and dominant, view of developmental scientists like Steinberg is that the degree to which parents can successfully parent their children is highly dependent on how well their social environment — education, policy, media, culture, the economy — align to support children's development.

As a sponsor of colloquia and conferences, the Research Institute brings together educators, psychologists, doctors, and social scientists for discussions on current issues related to education.

The plight of fatherless daughters has been gaining some attention on the part of social scientists and parenting experts in recent years.

That chatter, social scientists have shown, has a huge effect on vocabulary and reading ability.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

In a recent book by Dr. Peter Cook (Mothering Denied) describes better than most others the difficulties that Dr. Jay Belsky has had convincing his fellow scientists that social ideology is passing for, if not dictating, scientific interpretations of studies on this issue (as is true for the bedsharing debate), in favor of dismissing the serious concerns and negative developmental correlates of infants and children being placed for long hours, early in their lives, in daycare centers.

He says social scientists tend to equivocate on their conclusions; let the research speak for itself, leaving the issue open for discussion, but just within a new evidential framework.

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.

The conference will bring policy makers, researchers and natural scientists together with EGN social scientists for an event featuring lectures, debates, workshops and exhibitions on the roles of genomics in society.

According to a preview chapter of an upcoming book by Sassha Issenberg, available on Amazon.com as «Rick Perry and His Eggheads,» campaign manager Dave Carney brought in four social scientists (including two from Yale) during the candidate's 2006 gubernatorial reelection bid in Texas.

AAAS is also working on a global survey from which it hopes to help articulate the social responsibilities of scientists and engineers.

In ResearchGate, a social network for scientists, other peers ask questions on specific fields of research.

The second part of the AAAS effort, which is the focus of this report, was to design and pre-test a survey that would produce generalizable results about the views of scientists and engineers on their social responsibilities.