Sentences with phrase «sociological evidence»

Mounting sociological evidence confirms the terrible social costs of fatherlessness: triple the rates of truancy, teen pregnancies and drug abuse, to name a few.

Health technology assessment (HTA), for example, is a tool that tries to combine all available medical, economical, and sociological evidence about the impact of a certain treatment, drug, or medical device.

New sociological evidence from a a small fishing village in Baja California, Mexico suggests that the creation of marine protected areas, which influence who gets to fish and how much of species they can take, generates both extreme pro-social and anti-social behaviors among fishers, a finding that differs from previous economic and psychology studies.

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And the sociological evidence shows that evangelical men are not the obstacles to the new manhood that many feminists, liberals and academics have thought.

It is a small book, and the supporting sociological evidence is mainly referenced in the footnotes, but Greeley does propose evidence that, among other things, Catholics have, compared to non-Catholics, a significantly higher appreciation of the arts and high culture; they have more satisfaction and fun in sex; they better understand the uses of leisure; they have a deeper and more stable relationship to family and community; they have a greater respect for the life of the mind, with educational achievements reflecting that respect; and they understand the nuanced connections between freedom and authority.

The sociological evidence from which Morran and Schlemmer draw generalizations is questionable.

Sociological evidence on the deterrent effect of the death penalty as currently practiced is ambiguous, conflicting, and far from probative.

The Church opposed this development but also highlighted the problems that could be faced by Catholic adoption agencies that would want to follow the Church's understanding (and in fact that confirmed by sociological evidence) that married couples present the best environment for raising children.

The rich truths of the teachings of the Church on marriage and the family are now comprehensively supported by a wealth of sociological evidence.

In this article, Leslie Ford of the Heritage Foundation, a think - tank based in Washington DC, draws upon sociological evidence from the United States to suggest that the Catholic Church's vision of the married family is the best poverty - busting measure available to modern society.

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Not one to mince words, Stark dismissed most earlier sociological explanations of women's greater religiosity as «tautological, inconsistent with the evidence, or silly.»

Reason is the default position so until I can come up with tangible physical evidence that he can verify God or gods simply do not have meaning other than sociological implications of religion.

Alt's work was undermined by shifting sociological theory, Albright's by accumulating archaeological evidence that did not fit his correlations between archaeology and the Bible.

In itself, this is no more than a revision of a sociological thesis under the pressure of empirical evidence.

All of the archeological, sociological, psychological evidence strongly suggests that religion is a construct of man.

apply mostly appropriate sociological theories, concepts, evidence, and methods to UK contexts and some global contexts using some appropriate subject specific terminology

apply relevant sociological theories, concepts, evidence and methods accurately to UK contexts and some global contexts using a wide range of subject specific terminology

We also consider evidence directly connected to the intervention in question (for instance, studies of a particular implementation in an animal advocacy context) as well as evidence more distantly related (for instance, from general psychological studies or from sociological work done on other movements for social change).

The study of law from non-legal or non-black-letter perspectives can usefully be divided into those that treat data derived from experiments and surveys (such as sociological studies of legal systems, or psychological studies of juries), and those look to the written word for evidence, the latter covering the vast majority of what is conventionally considered «legal scholarship».

In my own case, having researched the matter very carefully, and having unearthed a great deal of contemporary & corroborating psychological and sociological scientific evidence demonstrating the harm caused to children as a result of overseas parental separation, I felt that I had an absolute duty to my children to fight the application.

Alongside this research, there is intervention, epidemiological, sociological and qualitative evidence all suggesting that local environments are important in supporting the family capacity necessary to raise children in ways that promote good developmental outcomes.6, 7 The neighbourhoods or communities in which people live appears to impact health and well - being.8 While «neighbourhood» is often used in other studies, in the Australian context «neighbourhood» and «community» are often used interchangeably (these terms are further defined on page 9).7 The research into neighbourhood effects on children was originally motivated by the observation that disadvantage seemed geographically concentrated and intergenerational.

These recommendations misrepresent science, are grounded in hypothesis rather than sound theory, are supported by no efficacy studies, fly in the face of established biological, anthropological, psychological, and sociological knowledge, and ignore or distort established research and other evidence that points the other way.

Miriam Evensen, Torkild Hovde Lyngstad, Ole Melkevik, Arnstein Mykletun; The Role of Internalizing and Externalizing Problems in Adolescence for Adult Educational Attainment: Evidence from Sibling Comparisons using Data from the Young HUNT Study, European Sociological Review, Volume 32, Issue 5, 1 October 2016, Pages 552 — 566, https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcw001