Sentences with phrase «social scientists today»

They viewed public schools — even though public schools in those days usually charged a fee — as akin to voluntarily supported charities and as part of what Tocqueville then, and social scientists today, call «civil society.»
They viewed public schools as akin to voluntarily supported charities and as part of what social scientists today call civil society.
And in the 20th century the ideas were developed into decision theory, an elegant formulation beloved of economists and social scientists today.

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I asked Dunbar what he made of social scientists» claims that people have fewer close friends today than they did years ago.
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.
They themselves are usually future - oriented — a tendency evidenced in the futurism fad among today's social scientists, and the ahistorical approach if not downright antihistoricism seen in many aspects of social science.
The term «pluralism» is widely used today by social scientists.
In other words, [today] there are more defined issues, and more people who definitely believe, more social scientists who believe, there is no cause - and - effect relationship between televised violence and social behavior.
One truth that is self - evident is that if corporate executives, union officers and employee clubs had waited to get a statistical O.K. from the social scientists, there would be precious little ping - pong played in industry today.
The project also will examine disaster preparedness, bringing in social scientists to assess how well communities around Kīlauea and Long Valley are prepared today and to identify better ways of communicating information on possible hazards to the public.
As a scholar of science and technology studies (a social science field that aims to understand the social processes of knowledge production), I focused the 4 years of my Ph.D. on studying how the academic landscape in which today's postdoctoral life scientists develop their careers influences their working practices.
Several university presidents have encouraged their staff and students to vote against Le Pen, newspaper Le Monde writes today; on Wednesday, the paper reported that four historians and social scientists supported Macron.
LONDON — Women with a single copy of the X chromosome from their mothers are more likely than those with a copy from their fathers to have problems coping with social situations, scientists reported at a press conference here today.
All of this suggests that circadian clocks can be cued by social roles and that the rhythms can be much more complicated than scientists thought, the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. «People seem to think about daily activity patterns as something that's more or less fixed in a species,» Kempenaers says.
Today, judges — including scientists, choreographers, and past winners — announced the finalists in four categories: physics, chemistry, biology, and social sciences.
On 22 November 1956, this magazine's very first edition hit the news stands, and today New Scientist is still living up to its promise, made in that first issue, to inform and entertain «all those men and women who are interested in scientific discovery and its industrial, commercial and social consequences».
«This is another reason why we must take steps to curb global warming pollution as much and as quickly as possible,» said Amanda Staudt, a climate scientist with the National Wildlife Federation, which released the report today with Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Today, a Penn physician, scientist, nurse, technician or social worker will find another way to heal or help give the gift of more time and change the course of human life.
The new synthetic biology centre at Imperial College London will focus on ethics as well as science.ICLA synthetic - biology centre opening today at Imperial College London is hoping to pre-empt public concerns about the field by integrating social scientists into its research team.
Harvard University today announced the establishment of a new research and policy center bringing together neuroscientists, molecular biologists, and a range of social scientists to advance understanding of the biology of health, learning, and behavior in young children.
Today, statisticians or social scientists looking at Jack — or a class full of Jacks, or a country full of them — possess the tools to tell his success story.
«In light of all this, I wanted to investigate [by interviewing scientists, politicians, journalists, and social workers] why the backfire effect is having more impact today than it did ten, twenty, or forty years ago.
A major quantitative analysis by social scientists Nolan McCarty, Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal found today to be the most polarized period in 130 years.
An internationally acclaimed social scientist and family therapist offers timely and welcome news for the millions of separated and divorced parents: in more than 50 percent of divorces today, couples succeed in preserving their families for their children.
This transparency paradox is at the core of Facebook's existential crisis today, and there's a real risk that the Cambridge Analytica story will make it more conservative in what it shares, which would affect the research of hundreds of good scientists who are working with the social network every day without breaching its terms of service in order to understand how Facebook is affecting our society.
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