Sentences with phrase «sociological fact»

I've got no problem with people quoting it as a sociological fact, with the same lack of implication about the truth of climate change.

That sociological fact is warrant, in Hough and Cobb's judgment, for the conclusion that «the minister as Manager is the strongest candidate for the dominant image of professional leadership» (78).

Plurality is sheer difference: a sociological fact, a staple of the human condition.

The negative role of the university in relation to discipleship to Jesus is a sociological fact that is hardly disputable.

Genuine pluralism is not simply the sociological fact of a plurality of worlds of meaning; it is a social and cultural achievement.

This is simply historical and sociological fact.

The moral issue is not denied but reinterpreted in the light of medical, psychiatric and sociological facts.

He also imparts the cultural implications and scientific nuances of food by combining the ever - popular gross - out factor with culinary, scientific, and sociological facts.

Not exact matches

The fact that the bag is proudly toted by high school students (as a stylish backpack alternative) and senior citizens alike would seem to point to something of a sociological anomaly.

This is NOT to say the resurrection did or did not happen, it is to say with Troeltsch, that the resurrection is not a «historical» fact in the sense that it is not possible for historians to consider it — just as a supernova would not be a biological or sociological «fact» because it is outside their scope, don't mean novae don't happen!

These various affirmations are matters of belief, based on misinterpretation of facts, misunderstanding of psychological and sociological discoveries, and, finally, on popular, commonly held notions.

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.

But this is to close one's eyes to the fact that the characteristics of nationalism are always the same, that a young, liberating nationalism has exactly the same sociological structure as German or French nationalism, and that the transition from «young» to «old» nationalism is tragically swift.

Nevertheless, I believe that a nondefensive openness to psychological and sociological knowledge, as well as to the natural sciences is more faithful to Wesley, despite the fact that the consequences of such openness may lead to ideas that were foreign to him.

This was realism, for the function of the family was changing; and here was recognition of the fact, even though there may have been little sociological theory behind it.

Jared has clarified his critique of evangelicals, which seems to be a sociological critique that, regardless of what we say at the end of the day, our orientation reveals that the political has in fact become an idol.I think it's worth bringing up at this point Joe's post from way back....

It seems to me that the current general statements made by historians, literary historians, and sociologists about American civilization often do not do justice to the fact that a considerable part of the American ethos is still, though less than in earlier periods of American history, expressed in religious commitment and its sociological expression.

We also capitulate to the dictatorship of relativism when we substitute the sociological idea of «religious identity» for the objective reality of religious fact.

Who would suspect from this statement that biologists of the stature of Ludwig von Bertalanffy had been writing: «I think the fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in «hard» science has become a dogma can only be explained on sociological grounds»?

Given the pervasive nature of caste and the implications of the caste system in India it is not at all surprising that historically Christians did, in fact become a sociological group, virtually a «Christian caste `.

In his conclusion of Sociology of Religion he states: «The fact that this study is limited to a descriptive sociological examination of religious groups need not be interpreted as an implicit admission that the theological, philosophical, and metaphysical problems and questions growing out of such a study of society have to remain unanswerable.

In science, whether taking a long sociological look at an individual laboratory as a fact factory or reviewing the whole research system, these authors ask how local, provisional knowledge is transformed into the global certainties of natural law.

What makes «Very Bad Things» a more rewarding experience than other films in its genre is that writer - director Peter Berg seems to be onto the fact that he's making a piece of shock schlock and not a sociological pronouncement.

So faithful, in fact, that The Grudge is completely free of those tedious drags character development, tension, scenario, narrative, plot, intelligence, point, sociological relevance, technical aptitude, and scares, really, since it leaves «pacing» somewhere back where the rest of that stuff was jettisoned.

Since there was no guarantee that these facts would be raised in student - directed discussions, and because students had no particular reason for remembering these details (there was no test or grade associated with the tours), it is impressive that they could recall historical and sociological information at such high rates.

In fact, many sociological studies show that most people have no idea what it is that makes them happy.According to a poll taken by psychiatrist Robert Waldinger about what the most important goals were in life for today's young people, 80 % of the respondents said «being a millionaire.»

If you set aside conspiracy theories, and ignore the fact that sociological, sexual and racial factors often do stack the art - world deck against certain artists, this show allows you to understand why some moments are more doomed to the dustbin of history than others.

For some this might be literature, film, architecture, music, scientific facts or data, and these might be influences that are visual, philosophic, sociological, and so on.

Complete Idiot's Guide to Global Warming (Paperback) by Michael Tennesen (Author) $ 14.78 · Paperback: 352 pages · Publisher: Alpha (April 6, 2004) The time is right for this comprehensive guide separating the facts from the fiction about global warming - and how it affects ecological, sociological, and economic environments worldwide.

These alarmist predictions are becoming quite bizarre, and could be dismissed as sociological oddities, if it weren't for the fact that they get such big play in the media.

This empirical information would be gleaned from our law society dues, and may result in an increase in fees given the fact we're now calling for LSUC to conduct independent sociological observations of the public and their perceptions of their role as the regulator.

In fact, former prime minister Stephen Harper, speaking at Yukon College in Whitehorse in August 2014, following the death of 15 - year - old Tina Fontaine — who was killed after she left her foster home — stated that violence against Indigenous women and girls in Canada should not be viewed as «sociological phenomenon.»