A
sociological study refers to research conducted to understand how society works, including how people interact, how institutions function, and how beliefs and behaviors are shaped by social factors. It aims to provide insights into patterns, trends, and social issues, helping us better understand human societies.
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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».
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).
Important sociological studies today are showing that the technological cultures of the West, shaped by the secularistic world views derivative of Protestant religious traditions, are dramatically shifting the balance of «intended death» away from homicide to suicide.
Using common information systems as templates — figures and charts from educational books and magazines, maps of racism and fascism and graphics
from sociological studies — he linked data - management to the operations of capitalism, and anticipated much of the effects of its globalisation familiar today.
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.
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.
Over the past forty years,
voluminous sociological studies have repeatedly reached the same stark conclusion: children overwhelmingly do best in life when they grow up with a mum and a dad who are married.
These notions, as
sociological study made clear, also brought with them the legitimacy of an absolutist economic and political orthodoxy.
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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.
Wilson collects an astonishing array of psychological and
sociological studies relating to nearly every facet of the moral life from every conceivable quarter and synthesizes them to support the general ideas that he posits.
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.
Like a
creepy sociological study on Tinder, knowing how often black holes hook up tells us how dense they are (pun totally intended) distributed through space, which in turn tells us both about how much things managed to clump up in the early days of the Universe as well as some things about gravity.
The official online dating blog that feature research and
sociological studies about online dating trends and the economics of romance.
Östlund's method, as always, is to stage the human comedy in miniature: Nearly every scene is presented as an impeccably framed tableau, a tactic that effectively transforms characters, extras and audiences alike into participants in a
grand sociological study.
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.
Horace R. Cayton, co-author of the
groundbreaking sociological study «Black Metropolis,» sits pensively in a portrait from 1949, his skin lit into fulvous brown by sunlight from a single window.
Moreover, the American Civil Liberties Union's report on parenting by same - sex couples contradicts the Family Research Council's conclusions, stating that the vast majority of peer -
reviewed sociological studies indicate that children raised in same - sex households are «relatively normal.»
From deadly Nazi medical experiments to
sociological studies on children, past science has taken paths we wouldn't tread today, but the results still have value
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.
It can be argued that the film has more value than many historically
important sociological studies, which often depend on questionnaires that attempt to quantify the unquantifiable and rely on college students as subjects.
Working from her own photos and pictures found in magazine and film archives, her canvases act
as sociological studies.
- Booklist «Part thriller,
part sociological study, the novel sheds light on poverty, corruption, and greed while bringing readers intimately close to the plight of those who illegally cross borders with the hope of a brighter future.»
Sociological studies show that people are highly skeptical about professional politicians and all three branches of government.