Sentences with phrase «social studies provides»

The Faculty of Humanities and Social Studies provides classes and faculty to all three programs.

Social Studies provides instruction for every day of the school year through an innovative combination of print and media that will engage and challenge your students.

The National Council for the Social Studies provides Curriculum Standards for Social Studies.

It is also important to recognize that social studies provides an important avenue for focusing on literacy.

He asserted that» a theoretical foundation for social studies provides an answer to why we employ various teaching strategies in the social studies» classroom and why we recommend those strategies to others» (p. 14).

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In general, the social platforms studied provided some significant benefits on the average, particularly in the areas of emotional support from others, awareness of others» experiences, self - expression, self - identity, and community building.

According to a 2013 study by the social action group Center for American Progress, if the undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States were provided legal status, the 10 - year cumulative increase in the gross domestic product (GDP) would be $ 832 billion.

Among the many tips Lichtenfeld provides in his excellent, comprehensive study, he suggests that if you are in good health, you should wait until age 70 before taking Social Security.

Since young adults perceive evangelical Christianity to be... «unconcerned with social justice», it's a shame that more evangelical churches don't know about the Just Faith program, which provides «opportunities for individuals to study and be formed by the justice tradition articulated by the Scriptures, the Church's historical witness, theological inquiry and Church social teaching» (from jusfaith.org/programs).

A job search led me to a position as a ministry - based social worker for an organization that provided job skills, mentoring, childcare and Bible study for low income women in the inner city of Nashville.

Compilations such as Ph. Schaff's Creeds of Christendom, Neve's Churches and Sects, Frank S. Mead's Handbook of Denominations, Marcus Bach's They Found a Faith, E. T. Clark's «Small Sects, the Study of Organized Religion in the United States,» in the Annals of the Academy of Political and Social Science, W. W. Sweet's The American Churches, and H. W. Schneider's Religion in 20th Century America provide lists and summary descriptions of the groups that compose the American religious scene.

Scientific naturalists who take this line sometimes add that they do not necessarily object to the study of creationism in the public schools, provided it occurs in literature and social science classes rather than in science class.

In a recent study, Tradition, Rationality, and Virtue: The Thought of Alasdair MacIntyre, Thomas D. D'Andrea provides a helpful overview that rightly directs attention to MacIntyre's engagement with psychoanalysis and the philosophy of social science.

Religions are to be studied and understood for their own sake and not simply to provide self - knowledge, social knowledge, or ammunition to uphold a given religion.

(As part of a much larger study, this work provides useful information on characteristics of the audience and non-audience of religious programs, particularly in regard to how the use of religious programs corresponds to other personality characteristics and social stances.)

«The buyer's (and his or her family's) social networks within the local community also provide a broader range of options for «punishment», with examples provided to the study including social isolation, physical intimidation and sometimes violence.»

The United States, along with Papua New Guinea, Swaziland, Liberia and Lesotho are some of the only countries in the world that provide no type of financial support for mothers, according to a study done by McGill University's Institute for Health and Social Policy.

Additional evidence from studies which have looked at other aspects of social support such as the level of received support or sources of social support also provided evidence to support the hypothesis that the level of social support is an important factor in postpartum depression and that if social support is absent then it can be a potential risk factor for postpartum depression.

A study of voters» social values provides a better indicator of how they voted than their political attitudes based on a left - right split.

The British Election Study has served the social science community since 1964, and will continue to provide a public resource for understanding the political upheaval our country is experiencing.

The social policy approach may be fruitful in studying other authoritarian regimes, as it provides a window into often invisible complex relationships between the state and non-state actors.

«The stimulus that Election Day provides by giving people information, imposing social pressure to encourage them to vote, giving them social rewards from seeing neighbors and friends at a polling place — all the things that happen on a traditional Election Day — tend to be diluted,» said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, who worked on the AJPS study.

It supports the development and training of the UK's future social scientists and also funds major studies that provide the infrastructure for research.

Three years after Beveridge's report Clement Attlee announced that the study would form the basis of the new welfare state that would provide «social security.»

«This study provides physiological evidence that the proximity of animals eases the stress that children with autism may experience in social situations.»

When asked about what sparked the study, author Keith Anderson from the University of Montana commented «As a geriatric social work researcher, I've always been interested in finding creative, cost effective ways to improve the lives and well - being of older adults... My co-authors direct the Veterinary Outreach Program, affiliated with The Ohio State University, which provides mobile wellness care for the pets of older adults and / or homebound residents.

Examining cases such as Easter Island, the Greenland Norse, and the Classic Maya, the author provides a comparative study of the economic and social ruin that occurs when societies undermine their ecological foundations.

Pet dogs provide valuable social support for kids when they're stressed, according to a study by researchers from the University of Florida, who were among the first to document stress - buffering effects of pets for children.

However, Miller and Bobkowski said the study does provide some insight into how different people use social media and how people are discussing politics among their social ties.

Darlene Kertes and colleagues tested the commonly held belief that pet dogs provide social support for kids using a randomized controlled study — the gold standard in research.

As representatives of our disciplines, we encourage U.S. states that still lack paper trails to adopt systems that provide for them before 2018 elections,» said the leadership of the AAAS Section on Social, Economic and Political Sciences, which includes scholars who study election processes.

«This study provides critical insight into the origins of social group bias by allowing researchers to understand how positivity and negativity toward groups develops independently,» said Andrew Baron, the study's senior author and associate professor in the UBC department of psychology.

According to study co-author Larry J. Young of Emory University, the results provide evidence in a comparatively simple animal model that changes in the activity of a single gene profoundly can change a fundamental social behavior of animals within a species.

«Egypt and the Nile are very sensitive instruments for climate change, and Egypt provides a unique historical laboratory in which to study social vulnerability and response to abrupt volcanic shocks,» says Manning.

«The fact that the present study found that Oxytocin may improvement compassion among patients with post-traumatic stress disorder toward women provides new evidence that oxytocin may be able to improve the social behavior of these patients,» said Professor Simone Shamay - Tsoory from the Department of Psychology at the University of Haifa, who led the study.

«Although this wasn't an experiment, it was a well - controlled longitudinal study in a racially diverse sample — so it provides a strong clue that being socially integrated early in life is good for our health independent of a number of other factors such as personality, weight in childhood, and the family's social status in childhood,» she explains.

The study, published in the International Journal of Business Information Systems, found the widespread popularity of social media and associated mobile apps enables campus authorities to instantly reach a large percentage of students to provide timely and accurate information during crisis situations.

«Considered in total, this study provides important early archaeological evidence for meat eating, hunting and scavenging behaviors - cornerstone adaptations that likely facilitated brain expansion in human evolution, movement of hominins out of Africa and into Eurasia, as well as important shifts in our social behavior, anatomy and physiology,» Ferraro said.

A new study — the first to quantify the social lives of parrots using social network analysis — provides intriguing new insights into parrot sociality revealing a sophisticated social structure with layers of relationships and complex interactions.

Rie Davies said: «This study provides support for prior research by Kirschner and Tomasello (2010) 1 and also highlights the need for schools and parents to understand the important role music making has in children's lives in terms of social bonding and helping behaviours.

«Our study provides additional evidence suggesting that peer social support buffers the association between experiences of relational victimization and depressive symptoms in adolescence,» says Cooley.

In a study spanning molecular genetics, stem cells and the sciences of both brain and behavior, researchers at University of California San Diego, with colleagues at the Salk Institute of Biological Studies and elsewhere, have created a neurodevelopmental model of a rare genetic disorder that may provide new insights into the underlying neurobiology of the human social brain.

According to the study, stories in these materials, in addition to the services provided during the Head Start school year, helped children to develop their social skills and learn how to calm down during tense moments, so they could overcome frustration and resolve conflicts.

Strassmann says the study provides an interesting opening for future research to identify the neural and genetic building blocks of social interaction.

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation observes that many of the issues raised by the inquiry have been studied by social scientists for years, and suggests that the best answers will be provided by objective research rather than by gathering opinions.

The findings from the two studies provide support for the restricting social class hypothesis on both a local and a global level, say the researchers.

«No studies to date have been able to provide such a comprehensive and fine - grained account of what kinds of information individuals are exposed to [on social media sites], and what they choose to consume,» said study co-author Eytan Bakshy, a data scientist on the Core Science Data team at Facebook.

«But our comparison of national data from the NHIS with data from the EHDIC study provides a more nuanced picture of the factors underlying these behavioral differences and suggests that the disparities found at the national level may be a function of social and environmental differences.

New studies show that money and social values are processed in the same brain region, providing insight into how we make choices

«This study provides a foundation for future studies to evaluate the value of psycho - social interventions, such as cognitive therapies, to lessen the effect of major life events, as well as the use of estrogen therapy during perimenopausal and menopausal stressful times.»