Sentences with phrase «social theorists»

From the outset, German Catholic social theorists and activists played a prominent role in addressing the social question, shaping what we now know as the Catholic social thought tradition.

According to many social theorists, the world is getting smaller.

WASHINGTON — A group of social theorists from divergent political backgrounds declared last week that it was uniting behind a common agenda: restoring the nation's «moral order» by strengthening communities and families.

Max Weber, the renowned late - 19th century social theorist, who probed the concept of authority, made two important distinctions.

Social theorists today seem largely unaware of any such distinction, and this is why they pay so little attention to solitude.

Cognitive neuroscience, including social theorists from Weber to Bourdieu, has recognized that humans act, most of the time, habitually, not reflectively.

The French social theorist Pierre Bourdieu as well as Marx's theory of value are among his references in a 54 - minute film that also includes an attack on the British Museum's director Neil MacGregor for being a wishy - washy liberal who defends the museum's ownership of Benin sculptures stolen from this west African state in 1897.

Social theorists who neglect solitude logically enough condemn individualism; today, individualism is as rarely praised as is solitude.

Where Descartes turned to the language of substance to explain certain philosophical problems, social theorists like Morton frequently establish a body / culture dualism in its place.

Horace Bushnell was typical of almost all Victorian social theorists and pastors.8 They described human nature in dualistic terms by misconstruing the meaning of the New Testament concerning «spirit and flesh.»

Marx called this rising class the proletariat, a term he borrowed from the polymath and early Catholic social theorist Franz von Baader.

This, at least, was Luhmann's position until recently — a fairly pessimistic view of modern religion that did not differ substantially from that of many social theorists in the nineteenth century.

Berger's approach has been criticised by social theorists for reproducing, rather than transcending, the very errors of voluntarism and determinism that he strives to avoid.

The internet and low production costs will free us from work and want, says social theorist Jeremy Rifkin — but what will we do then?

The so - called Enlightenment Project persisted throughout much of the 20th century; in the 1980s and»90s, social theorists still maintained that respectful open dialogue on foundational matters would advance truth and strengthen democracy.

His critical discourse also went beyond the page to the salon — in the 1930s, Schapiro would organize dinners with his peers, including pioneering MoMA director Alfred Barr, art historian Erwin Panofsky, curator James Johnson Sweeney, art dealer Jerome Klein, and critical and social theorist Lewis Mumford.

For «Carried on Both Sides», the four artists worked together to collectively investigate the material history of classical shapes from the Roman Empire as they have come to structure our online world and our current economic environment, which social theorist Jodi Dean calls «communicative capitalism.»

Artists have created works inspired by the foundation of the Edinburgh Festival in 1947 and the town planner and social theorist Sir Patrick Geddes's 1917 pamphlet The Making of the Future: A Manifesto and a Project, which put forward a vision for a more holistic society with art and culture at its core.

SARA LAWRENCE - LIGHTFOOT: Max Weber, the renowned late - 19th century social theorist, who probed the concept of authority, made two important distinctions.

Chan's work presents the unlikely mash - up of the famously reclusive Chicago «outsider» artist and the nineteenth - century French social theorist, set to a sound track of Jay - Z and Bach.

They were assisted in this by the other members, both clerical and lay, of the «Königswinter Circle,» a group of social theorists.

Here's what that social theorist says: Modern individualism is the cause of modern statism.

Of course these principles are not consciously applied in the actual tasks of going about our daily business, but they can be inferred by the social theorist.

During the 1960s change in sexual behavior and family roles led some social theorists to predict the end of the family.

Within weeks of the war's end, these social theorists and activists were drawing up plans for a new economic and social order.

Nor must the need for integration seduce us to reinvent a Christian «tradition» (mostly intended for «the masses») for social or political purposes, as some social theorists do today in America.

A more recent generation of social theorists — including Talcott Parsons, Marion Levy, Jr., E. 0.

Today we speak and assemble in ways unknown to past generations of theologians, political leaders, and social theorists.

Economists, social theorists and philosophers have long analyzed the incentives of human actions, decision making, rationality, motivation, and other cognitive processes.

Allport, Watson, Shaw, and Mead were the social theorists that established cooperative learning prior to WWII, suggesting that group work is more effective and efficient, than working alone.

According to social theorist and philosopher Slavoj Zizek, today, production is being moved to the periphery of our life, consciousness and language.

Explore the value of play as understood by the highly creative writer and social theorist, H.G. Wells.