Sentences with phrase «sociological studies of»

, Sociological Studies of Child Development.

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».

Sociological studies of science ad something important to the physical reductionist world of the natural sciences: it adds humans, power, motives, culture, interest etc etc..

Together these books suggest to this reader that we need a new round of sociological studies of youth.

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.

Columbia University's Bureau of Applied Social Research carries on sociological studies of homelessness under a contract with Operation Bowery.

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

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.

«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.

He is writing Awaiting the Apocalypse, a sociological study of Seventh - day Adventism.

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).

Yet a warning should be voiced against too unguarded an application of terms and viewpoints derived from the sociological study of other human activities.

Miller, a professor of religion at the University of Southern California, has produced a sociological study of three successful non «mainline church movements: Calvary Chapel, Hope Chapel, and the Vineyard.

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

8 For a striking sociological study of the «affective» aspect of computer programming, see Sherry Turkle, The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984), especially Chapters 3, 5, and 6.

Klausner, S. Z. Psychiatry and Religion: A Sociological Study of the New Alliance of Ministers and Psychiatrists.

The question of the sociology of religion may be cited as an example of the relation between Religionswissenschaft and another discipline According to Professor E. A. Shils: «It is scarcely to be expected that American sociologists would make contributions to the sociological study of religion along the lines of Max Weber's Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Religionssoziologie.

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

Pimp turned successful urban fiction author Robert Beck gets a loving, burnished treatment in the new documentary «Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp,» a film which awkwardly straddles the line between amiable hagiography and a more discerning sociological study of the constricted economic opportunities for African - Americans in the pre-Civil Rights era.

Aside from the operatics of Scarlett and Rhett, the novel is a sociological study of the before and after of the Civil War, and the irrevocable transformation of the South by opportunistic industrialists from the North.

Whose Studio (2014), for example, reenvisions Gustave Courbet's critique of French society, The Painter's Studio (1854 — 55), as a sociological study of Chinese citizenry.

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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.

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.

Research from several sources, including a study by the American Sociological Review, has found that people with flexible schedules report that their overall sense of well - being increases with flexible work options.

(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.)

Sociological studies have been made but the limitations and detachment with which such studies are produced rarely shed great light on the lived existence of the Catholic collectivity.

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.

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.

Sociological studies show that people are highly skeptical about professional politicians and all three branches of government.

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.

Herberg attempted to demonstrate the lack of intermarriage between the three big faiths, and he cited several sociological studies to prove the point, including Kennedy's.

Like other sociological disciplines — the sociology of art or of law — the sociology of religion is the offspring of two different scholarly pursuits, the study of society and the study of religion.1 Its character, methods, and aims reflect this parentage.

It is the task of general sociology to investigate the sociological significance of the various forms of intellectual and practical expression of religious experience (myth, doctrine; prayer, sacrifice, rites; organization, constitution, authority); it falls to the specific sociological study to cover sociologically concrete, historical examples: a Sioux (Omaha) Indian myth, an Egyptian doctrine of the Middle Kingdom, Murngin or Mohammedan prayer, the Yoruba practice of sacrifice, the constitution of the earliest Buddhist Samgha, Samoyed priesthood, etc..

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

To Pinard de la Boullaye we owe the best existing history of the study of religion and a thorough discussion of its methods, including the sociological approach.

Inasmuch as these authors did not limit themselves to a discussion of primitive society, though they did concentrate on non-Christian religions, a rapprochement between sociological and socio - psychological studies, on the one hand, and the efforts of the school of «comparative religions» (F. Max Mueller, C. P. Tiele, W. Robertson Smith), on the other, was effected.

But that such a «right dividing of the word of truth» is precisely what we have aim for is borne out by recent sociological studies as well as theological - ecclesiastical investigations like Fackre's.

Nevertheless, the sociological approach to the study of religion has great rewards.

Failure to do that has marred many sociological studies since the beginning of the twentieth century.

But equally important has been the sociological approach to the study of the religious group, systematically and typologically organized, thus supplementing historical and psychological investigations.

The title of a classic sociological study, Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn Against Liberalism, sums up my cultural and social surroundings.

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.