Sentences with phrase «sociological terms»

Posner describes the purposes of the intricate theorizing in the legal academy in sociological terms.

It is important to realize that there is this dimension to the notion of the religious community because the secularized understanding of many modern Westerners can not conceive of it except in purely sociological terms.

You also say that you are «not saying that is the threshold», while every definition of the lousy sociological term «tipping point» has severe resemblance and is synonomous to «threshold» as it is understood in «catastrophe theory» (which is an application of more general theory of bifurcations in one - parametric families of dynamical systems).

In sociological terms he spelled out why Black Muslims, Jehovah's Witnesses and other intense groups were growing while liberal and tolerant ones were losing position.

And, while the celebrity leadership of the movement is comprehensible to me in sociological terms, I find it distasteful and arguably unbiblical.

The growth of the acorn into the oak is, from one point of view, the unfolding of latent potentialities that are describable in scientific terms, just as the process of «conversion,» from false centering on the self to releasing openness to God, is describable in psychological or sociological terms.

In sociological terms, the plausibility structure has changed; what was inconceivable 30 years ago is now conceivable, because we have begun to see, experience, and study it.

But describing the crisis of the family among low - income Americans in these economic and sociological terms may itself be a way of avoiding the deeper problem of which these are but symptoms.

Or, in sociological terms: how do work and life interconnect differently in, say, Zurich and Winterthur, as opposed to, say, Calcutta?

(Personal plight is a sociological term for law practices in which (i) the clients are individuals and (ii) the legal needs arise from disputes.)