Sentences with phrase «sociological studies in»

Aquiares has been home to research studies for decades, starting with early sociological studies in the 1950's.

Sociological studies in religion will have to include the whole width and breadth of mankind's religious experience.

Not exact matches

But when allowed to set their own pace, taking fewer vacations and working on weekends, they could accept it because it was their choice, Michel explained in the summer issue of The Sociological Quarterly, where her study was published.

«We make a big deal about the controversial nature of our business and market around it,» explains Biderman, pointing out that the thousands of user profiles on Avid's various international sites represent, in the aggregate, a vast sociological study of human infidelity, an area that has traditionally attracted little in the way of sociological scrutiny.

A recent study published in the American Sociological Review clearly showed that, in a white collar environment, allowing workers some control over their own schedules, including being able to work from home, had a positive effect on employees» work - family balance without sacrificing productivity.

What's more, those 9 - to - 5 schedules aren't a smart strategy: Employees with flexibility in their workday report higher levels of job satisfaction and reduced levels of burnout and psychological stress, according to a study conducted over 12 months at a Fortune 500 company with 700 employees and published in the February issue of American Sociological Review.

As a 2006 study in the American Sociological Review found, the number of close confidantes a typical individual has shrank by a third between 1985 and 2006, to about two from three.

It all goes back to a sociological phenomenon called the Familiarity Principle, which Robert Zajonc started studying in the 1950's.

(Unfortunately, I must say that the studies in various issues of Frères du Monde (from which these quotations are taken) seem to me very weak from a political and sociological point of view.)

A number of recent sociological and psychological studies seem to support Jacob Epstein's assertion in his book Divorced in America that «in divorce there are only smaller and larger disasters.»

Moreover, study of each of them may involve the use of any or several of a variety of well - established types of inquiry: sociological, anthropological, psychological, philosophical, or - the dominant mode of inquiry in theological schooling today — historical.

The real Fishtown is a white working - class neighborhood in northeastern Philadelphia that has been the subject of a number of sociological studies over the past fifty years.

In this way, rhetorical criticism fills the gap between historical and sociological approaches to biblical study.

Negative attitudes toward the idea of women as senior pastors are well documented in Edward C. Lehman, Jr.'s, sociological study Women Clergy: Breaking Through Gender Barriers (Transaction, 1985) The author analyzed detailed responses from 1,720 Presbyterian lay - people and 1,143 Presbyterian clergy concerning a wide range of attitudes toward women in ministry.

Others have insisted that their work is social - scientific in the strong sense of the term — that is, as work guided by the correlation of models and data, as are more purely sociological and social - psychological studies.

Robert Bellah and his associates throw some general light on this absence in their recent sociological study of American culture, Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life (Harper & Row, 1985).

Some sociological studies of how the doctrine of karma is actually used in daily life suggest, however, that it does not inhibit a parent seeking a cure for a child who is ill.

In this lecture I am concerned with the sociological study of religion, its rights and assets, its dangers and its limitations.

Two points have been made in the preceding paragraphs that can now be related to specific sociological studies of preaching.

Thus the Holy Catholic Church is both a society of men and women, hence susceptible to study in a sociological fashion, and also the Body in which Jesus (now taken into God's everlasting life) is still made available to succeeding generations down to our own day.

Norman K. Gottwald, «Sociological Method in the Study of Ancient Isrsel» in Encounter with the Text: Form and History in the Hebrew Bible, ed.

One can point to the emergence of a variety of critical approaches to religion in general, and to Christianity in particular, which have contributed to the breakdown of certainties: These include historical - critical and other new methods for the study of biblical texts, feminist criticism of Christian history and theology, Marxist analysis of the function of religious communities, black studies pointing to long - obscured realities, sociological and anthropological research in regard to cross-cultural religious life, and examinations of traditional teachings by non-Western scholars.

Stressing the relevance of a given course or discipline to the modern world, putting more emphasis on psychological and sociological studies, or locating students in field situations, while important, will not solve the problem.

Co., 1978); Thomas C. Campbell and Yoshio Fukuyama, The Fragmented Layman: An Empirical Study of Lay Attitudes (Philadelphia: Pilgrim Press, 1970); James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as an Independent Variable,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 11 (1972): 65 - 75; James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as a Dependent Variable,» Sociological Analysis 33 (1972): 81 - 94; James D. Davidson, «Patterns of Belief at the Denominational and Congregational Levels,» Review of Religious Research 13 (1972): 197 - 205; David R. Gibbs, Samuel A. Miller, and James R. Wood, «Doctrinal Orthodoxy, Salience and the Consequential Dimension,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 12 (1973): 33 - 52; William McKinney, and others, Census Data for Community Mission (New York: Board for Homeland Ministries, United Church of Christ, 1983), part of a denomination - wide study of census data relevant to each congregation in the United Church of Christ; David O. Moberg, `' Theological Position and Institutional Characteristics of Protestant Congregations: An Explanatory Study,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1Study of Lay Attitudes (Philadelphia: Pilgrim Press, 1970); James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as an Independent Variable,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 11 (1972): 65 - 75; James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as a Dependent Variable,» Sociological Analysis 33 (1972): 81 - 94; James D. Davidson, «Patterns of Belief at the Denominational and Congregational Levels,» Review of Religious Research 13 (1972): 197 - 205; David R. Gibbs, Samuel A. Miller, and James R. Wood, «Doctrinal Orthodoxy, Salience and the Consequential Dimension,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 12 (1973): 33 - 52; William McKinney, and others, Census Data for Community Mission (New York: Board for Homeland Ministries, United Church of Christ, 1983), part of a denomination - wide study of census data relevant to each congregation in the United Church of Christ; David O. Moberg, `' Theological Position and Institutional Characteristics of Protestant Congregations: An Explanatory Study,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1Study of Religion 11 (1972): 65 - 75; James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as a Dependent Variable,» Sociological Analysis 33 (1972): 81 - 94; James D. Davidson, «Patterns of Belief at the Denominational and Congregational Levels,» Review of Religious Research 13 (1972): 197 - 205; David R. Gibbs, Samuel A. Miller, and James R. Wood, «Doctrinal Orthodoxy, Salience and the Consequential Dimension,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 12 (1973): 33 - 52; William McKinney, and others, Census Data for Community Mission (New York: Board for Homeland Ministries, United Church of Christ, 1983), part of a denomination - wide study of census data relevant to each congregation in the United Church of Christ; David O. Moberg, `' Theological Position and Institutional Characteristics of Protestant Congregations: An Explanatory Study,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1Study of Religion 12 (1973): 33 - 52; William McKinney, and others, Census Data for Community Mission (New York: Board for Homeland Ministries, United Church of Christ, 1983), part of a denomination - wide study of census data relevant to each congregation in the United Church of Christ; David O. Moberg, `' Theological Position and Institutional Characteristics of Protestant Congregations: An Explanatory Study,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1study of census data relevant to each congregation in the United Church of Christ; David O. Moberg, `' Theological Position and Institutional Characteristics of Protestant Congregations: An Explanatory Study,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1Study,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1Study of Religion, 1974).

An assessment of Douglass's contribution both to sociological method and to the study of the local church is contained in Jeffrey K. Hadden, «H. Paul Douglass: His Perspective and His Work,» Review of Religious Research 22 (1980): 66 - 88.

In Wach's view, the sociological (systematic) task of Religionswissenschaff had two main foci: (1) the interrelation of religion and society, which requires an examination, first, of the sociological roots and functions of myths, doctrines, cults, and associations, and, second, of the sociologically significant function and effect of religion in society; and (2) the study of religious groupIn Wach's view, the sociological (systematic) task of Religionswissenschaff had two main foci: (1) the interrelation of religion and society, which requires an examination, first, of the sociological roots and functions of myths, doctrines, cults, and associations, and, second, of the sociologically significant function and effect of religion in society; and (2) the study of religious groupin society; and (2) the study of religious groups.

A purely sociological or anthropological study of a Christian congregation or of «the church» that purports to give a full account of what a congregation is, how and why it functions as it does, and when and why it succeeds or fails, would meet severe objections in most theological schools.

Critical realism would encourage a variety of ways of studying religion in addition to the phenomenological approach.4 The contribution of sociological methods would be welcomed, since religion is indeed a social reality expressed in social institutions.

2:2 — «The pure milk of the word of the sociological Gospel, perfected in the late eighteenth century has gone sour» («The Study of the Past» in ESP 155).

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.

This is not to disparage sociological studies of preaching such as those found in a special issue of Social Compass, 27, 1980, 345 - 438, and in Osmund Schreuder, «The Silent Majority,» in Communication in the Church, ed.

For example, the historical and theological areas may be combined into an area described as «Interpretation of Christianity» while the older «practical» field is divided into two, one dealing with «Church and Culture» (sociological, psychological, and philosophical studies of church phenomena in American culture) and the other dealing with the practice of ministry construed as the application of social scientific and psychological theory to clergy responsibilities.

We have in the sociological literature a rich tradition of field work, including in recent years a large number of participant - observer studies conducted in new religious movements and an increasing number of congregational studies, many of which have paid close attention to the ways in which religious symbols (both verbal and behavioral) are patterned.

A 2001 study published in the American Sociological Review found that moms pay a «penalty» of 7 percent of their wages for every child they have.

An epidemiological and sociological study of unexpected death in infancy in nine areas of southern England.

The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity A Study in Sociological Semantics and the Sociology of Science.

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.

Her study will appear in the April edition of the journal American Sociological Review.

King presented the study Aug. 22 in Seattle at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.

Myers will present his study, «Trading in Crisis: Coffee, Ecological Rift, and Ecologically Unequal Exchange,» at the 110th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA).

The study, published in the Chinese Sociological Review, found that women with less marital power — shaped by their relative income, resources and education — had lower «fertility autonomy» and were likelier to succumb to pressure to have a second child even if they did not want to.

Their study — «Using Facebook to Engage Learners in a Large Introductory Course» — was published in Teaching Sociology, a journal of the American Sociological Association.

In a companion study published online on 1 September in the American Sociological Review, Evans, Rzhetsky, and Jacob Foster — an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, who is also a co-author of the PNAS paper — found that this possibility of prize - winning is «the most plausible explanation» for why researchers take the risks they dIn a companion study published online on 1 September in the American Sociological Review, Evans, Rzhetsky, and Jacob Foster — an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, who is also a co-author of the PNAS paper — found that this possibility of prize - winning is «the most plausible explanation» for why researchers take the risks they din the American Sociological Review, Evans, Rzhetsky, and Jacob Foster — an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, who is also a co-author of the PNAS paper — found that this possibility of prize - winning is «the most plausible explanation» for why researchers take the risks they do.

The «Great Recession» may have put a dent in many older adults» pocketbooks, but a new study, which will be presented at the 109th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, finds that more than 40 percent reported a decrease in «financial strain» between 2006 and 2010.

«Income inequality has an effect only half as large among childless folks,» said Owens, whose study will be published online on April 27 and in the June print edition of the American Sociological Review.

Study lead author Joseph DiGrazia, a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology, will present the findings at the 108th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.

Janette Dill, a University of Akron sociology professor, and her colleagues try to answer that question in a new study she will present at the 109th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.

Titled «The Reversal of the Gender Gap in Education and Trends in Martial Dissolution,» the study, which appears in the August issue of the American Sociological Review, considers heterosexual U.S. marriages formed from 1950 - 2009.

Also, a 2006 study in American Sociological Review found that the average person now has a smaller number of people in whom they could confide than folks typically did 20 years ago.

And the besetting sin, you see as an amateur coming from outside, it struck me almost immediately — because I've never taken psychology or read a psych text book — and what I've noticed over my 20 - years holiday in this discipline is the extent to which people who study IQ data and even other data about individual differences never concoct a sociological scenario that might explain the data.