Sentences with phrase «social theory»

I will have to bypass the many interesting implications and problems of this «social theory of feeling» because they are too complex to deal with adequately in the space available here.

If an office situation or staff member behavior doesn't align with one of their coveted social theories, they don't know how to react.

Now a provocative scholar known for innovative social theories is suggesting that the disparity lies in the biochemistry of certain men.

What should strike us immediately is that it rewarded individuals for individual performance — the essence of applied conservative social theory.

This one emphasizes the connection to actual science and social theory regarding the subject.

As well as sculpture and performance, his work as an artist came to encompass social theory and political action.

Like with all good social theories, there is usually more criticism involved, than the actual content discussing the theory.

Indeed, a «sociological imagination» is slowly transforming all theologies — sometimes with unsettling and explicit power, as in the use of critical social theories in political and liberation theologies; sometimes with more implicit but no less unsettling effect, as in the increasing use of sociology of knowledge to clarify the actual social settings (or publics) of different theologies.

Applicable too are insights from social theory and from the field of organizational communication since it is a challenge to coordinate dialogical responses within Church structures.

First, it would seem to need to use some body of critical social theory as a tool to help unmask and analyze unjust distributions of power; and second, it would seem to need rigorous and critical reflection, such as is found in the second position, to examine what it means to say that we experience God in experiences of personal relationship and indeed how that could be possible.

Dr. Hackmann read for a M.Phil in contemporary social theory at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and holds a PhD in science and technology studies from the University of Twente in the Netherlands.

The real task is to figure out what is happening at the nexus between the order of meaning presupposed by Christian faith and the order of events predicted by modern social theory.

I make that unhappy admission not just because I still do not know my own mind clearly and systematically enough about four central issues of that practical theology task — contemporary social theory, ethics, ecclesiology and the history of spirituality.

But in Girard, this idea is developed into a comprehensive social theory which is articulated in conversation with current philosophical anthropology, taking into consideration a broad swath of social scientific data from the ancient Aztecs up to the present day.

Translated into social theory by John Dewey and Horace Kallen (James's student), poetry by Wallace Stevens (another James student), social science by George Herbert Mead, semiotics by Charles Morris (a Mead student), and jurisprudence by Oliver Wendell Holmes — not to mention the philosophy of F. C. S. Schiller, Sidney Hook (a Dewey student), C. I. Lewis, W. V. O. Quine (a student of Lewis), and many others up to and beyond Richard Rorty — pragmatism swept through the universities.

It is worth making an effort to stock one's bookshelves and learn some of the prominent psychological and social theories about LGBT people — not to become a therapist, but as a way of increasing one's awareness of the inner world of LGBT people.

His idea that «the crowd is untruth» was developed by Girard into a comprehensive social theory.

In India, theology, ethics and social theory as critical sciences are not widely developed, and topics treated by these fields appear in local communities primarily as confessional commentary, caste practice or expressions of communal interests.

What Hamilton's analysis shows is that we need social science, not just social theory, to explain the emergence of ideas like geoengineering, and make sense of the Anthropocene.

He taught social theory and public policy at Trent University.Currently Bob is Director of Communications and Political Action for the United Steelworkers union.

The problem to which Tillich refers is clearly evident in the writings of two contemporary individuals who have had a decided impact on the rising social and political consciousness of the evangelical community — namely, Jim Wallis, editor of Sojourners, and John Howard Yoder, whose book The Politics of Jesus is probably the most profound restatement of Anabaptist social theory in the past quarter of a century.

Basically the assumption revolves about the strong element of biblicism still present in evangelical social theory.

By presenting a domesticated version of Catholic social theory, I worry that Michael Novak continues the venerable American tradition of rendering faith subservient to politics.

When applied to social theories dualistic philosophies make social pluralism impossible.

Yet this very analysis of why conservative churches are growing assumes the presumptions of liberal social theory and practice that I am suggesting is the source of our difficulty.

In the long run, because there were no universally accepted norms for truth, religion became a private matter, and this privatization became one of the building blocks of Enlightenment social theory.

The willful blindness of the liberation theologians, their unwillingness to search in the world of social theory beyond the lucubrations of socialism, has had very high costs for the poor during these past twenty years.

It's French social theory wedded with Calvinist theology: Everyone is inextricably bound up in self - perpetuating systems of sinful behavior; when everyone is totally depraved, no one is; God, in the end, becomes a celestial umpire, naming this one «just» and that one «damned» according to arbitrary fiat.

Whitehead's social theory supercedes without destroying both types of social coordination.

We are aware that as a response and reaction to the predominant presence of social theories rooted in the West, there is a growing recognition of and movement towards understanding theories through the wide range of diverse contextual and cultural perspectives available in the East, and that the production of local theories have started a long time ago.

In this paper, Obsidian reviews the literature on learning theories, in particular social theories of learning; describes the Obsidian Learning model of distributed learning; and presents case studies of Obsidian's Distributed Learning model in practice.

Haste, H. (1993) Morality, self and sociohistorical context; the role of lay social theory.

He is a member of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Peer Review College, Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), co-convenor of the BERA SIG Social Theory and Education, and Associate of the Robert Owen Centre for Educational Change, University of Glasgow.

Even in the relatively few cases where aggression is related to rank, applying animal social theory and mimicking how animals would respond can pose a problem.

Marshalling Social Theory in Defense of Personal Impulse 2015 watercolor, gouache and ink on paper 16 x 14.75 inches Image courtesy of Charlie James Gallery

A professor of psychology and social theory at Swarthmore College, Schwartz applies Simon's ideas to the human psyche, with happiness replacing profitability as the desired outcome.

The 1993 show — the «political one» — curated by Elisabeth Sussman, was heavy on social theory and light on beauty.

But it is equally possible it was born from social theories that arose out of a fear of the rise of industrialism.

Where it could be a boring read to someone who is not into social theory and the power dynamic of mass media, it is very tantalizing in forcing a reader to become more critical about processing thing