Sentences with phrase «sociological theory of»

See Berger, The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1967).

[3] The term was coined by sociologist Peter Berger in his The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion.

Sociological theories of the 1940s and 1950s tended to portray culture as a hierarchy of values that was integrated by higher - order religious values and was internalized by the person, thereby giving unity and direction to the person's behavior.

These polarities can be suggestively associated with the sociological theories of, respectively, Max Weber and Emil Durkheim.

Applying the sociological theories of Durkheim and Mary Douglas to sexuality, Greenberg argues that homosexual identity is a social label.

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R.S. Burt, «Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition» (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992); P. Caligiuri and M. Lazarova, «A Model for the Influence of Social Interaction and Social Support on Female Expatriates» Cross-Cultural Adjustment,» International Journal of Human Resource Management 13, no. 5 (August 2002): 761 - 772; M.S. Granovetter, «The Strength of Weak Ties,» American Journal of Sociology 78, no. 6 (May 1973): 1360 - 1380; and M.S. Granovetter, «The Strength of Weak Ties: A Network Theory Revisited,» Sociological Theory 1 (1983): 201 - 233.

Knowledge of economic history is critical for good policy making because, as valuable as it is to understand models and theories, in real life policies have to be made in societies that are complex and have political and sociological considerations to take into account.

Indeed, a «sociological imagination» is slowly transforming all theologies — sometimes with unsettling and explicit power, as in the use of critical social theories in political and liberation theologies; sometimes with more implicit but no less unsettling effect, as in the increasing use of sociology of knowledge to clarify the actual social settings (or publics) of different theologies.

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.

Rational choice is a presupposition of another sociological model embraced by Stark: the «theory of religious economies,» which posits that churches and other religious groups operate in a market in which they must compete for adherents.

Second, it offers an inquiry into the principles (causes, laws, values), the forms (media, personnel, action, and atmosphere), and finally the general sociological categories of religious communality, in virtual if not conscious agreement with the theories of Scheler, Litt, and Mead.

Girard writes within the genre of sociological theory.

In fairness to Girard, I must say that he realizes very clearly that the key to the whole problem is found in the Prologue of John, but he writes in the genre of sociological theory rather than the genre of theology, which prevents him from speaking as freely as he might of the Incarnation of the Word of God in human history.

It is not possible in this context to develop a theory of religious experience and of its theoretical, practical and sociological expressions.

While Sandel wants to reject the deontological theory of the person, he does so in a different way than that marked out by what he calls «the sociological objection.»

The Songbook was analyzing a set of songs about Loneliness and Individualism, such as Simon and Garfunkel's «Sounds of Silence,» before it got side - tracked into laying out my theory of modernity's sociological stages.

Sociological theory, especially the views of Max Weber, also figured significantly in Alt's approach.

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»?

Talcott Parsons, The System of Modern Societies (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice - Hall, 1971), 4 - 28; With Edward Shils, Kaspar Naegle, and Jesse Pitts, eds., Theories of Society: Foundations of Modern Sociological Theory (New York: Free Press, 1961), 36 - 41; Social Systems and the Evolution of Action Theory (New York: Free Press, 1977), 43 - 53, 111 - 16.

Highlighting aspects of the dissent and dissociation from the Hindu system involved in this movement is likely to add another dimension to the theories on conversion movements in India set forth by Oddie (1975), Webster (1976), Forrester (1977), Manikam (1977), Gladstone (1984) and Kooiman (1989) 1 While these historians observe Christian conversion movements from a purely sociological standpoint they seem to have missed the elements of protest and remonstrance involved.

Robert N. Bellah's theory of religious change was published as a brief article in the American Sociological Review in 1964.

It took two thousand years to achieve «the final inversion of sociological theory, from the presupposition of slavery to the presupposition of freedom».24

We just have to show that being absolute about Christ is what's important rather than science, sociological theories, politics, pleasure, our own self, or any of the other temptations of our age.

the Big Bang theory (which postulates that, soon after the creation of matter and energy, an explosion began the expansion of the universe), to the hydrologic cycle, to the classification of animals and plants, to medical and hygienic statements in the Torah, to environmentalist statements, to psychological and sociological observations

When such schools are located in a cultural context marked by the «triumph of the therapeutic,» [19] there is a strong tendency, to construe those conditions in psychological and sociological categories and to equate the requisite knowledgeabilitv with counseling skills and related psychoanalytical and social - psychological theory.

His contributions to his discipline were impressively varied: the sociology of knowledge, the sociology of religion, sociological theory, and the cultural effects of modernization.

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.

There are a myriad of anthropological and sociological explanations for the rise of the helicopter parent, but to place blame on or make connection with the Theory of Attachment Parenting is to be woefully, grievously misinformed.

3) Your theory of science is appalling (all human endeavour is «made up» and this doesn't differentiate valid sociological from invalid sociological knowledge).

Sociologists Without Borders and American Sociological Association, pre-meeting conference on the theory and practice of human rights prior to the ASA annual meeting, 2012

Using a sample size of 11,860 adults in the United States (5,922 men and 5,938 women) obtained from the National Violence Against Women Survey's database, the researchers sought to challenge a sociological theory that explains that men are more likely to respond to sexual assault with anger and by engaging in criminal activity, while women are more likely to respond with depression and sadness.

I mean so I don't know if there's a sociological or socioeconomic theory or body of work behind this yet; but it seems like if those are your choices and you don't like socialism, communism and you realize you can't continue growth, you need something different.

Dating apps are, in their own way, a form of social networking — especially as they expand into new areas like friend - finding or professional Social exchange theory is a social psychological and sociological perspective that explains social change and stability as a process of negotiated

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To push the crime rate below one percent for the rest of the year, the New Founding Fathers of America (NFFA) test a sociological theory that vents aggression for one night in one isolated community.

This prequel to «The Purge» trilogy which looks at the very first time «The Purge» was implemented as the New Founding Fathers of America test a sociological theory that vents aggression for one night in one isolated community.

In her current position as distinguished university professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, Collins works with graduate students in examining race, feminist scholarship, and sociological theory.

Students will embark on a range of activities surrounding Becker, Labelling theory, Producing a Web Page based on the theory and will be briefly introduced to the overlap between sociological / criminological theory and philosophy by looking at John Stuart Mills and Jeremy Bentham.

The concepts covered are: * Camera techniques * Audio techniques * Editing techniques * Mise - en - scene codes * Narrative structure * Genre conventions * Representation * Ideologies * Cultural Spheres and Universes * Institutional Techniques * Audiences models and theories * A wide range of media theories broken into contextual areas into sociological and political This is vital tool in the lead up to the exam period, where it can be used as a revision guide for key concept development, and as a compliment to other units you are teaching.

apply relevant sociological theories, concepts, evidence and methods accurately to UK contexts and some global contexts using a wide range of subject specific terminology

Introduction to Education describes the historical, sociological and philosophical concepts that form the theory and objectives of effective learning

The study, which will be framed by neo-institutional sociological theory and development theories, will document the history of a highly underresearched organization whose role as focal point and norm - setter of educational trends warrants attention, and it will make a theoretical contribution to the body of knowledge related to educational planning.

Gain in - depth knowledge of sociological, psychological, language, literacy, learning assessment and curriculum design theories and their application to teaching diverse learners in K — 12 classrooms.

As an artist whose practice re-thinks the body as «carrier of continually weaving narrative», Hahn often uses textiles to interweave the conceptual with the metaphorical, all the while feeding her art with richly layered sociological and anthropological theories.

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.

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).

Huang HL, WC Huang: A reexamination of sociological and economic theories of suicide: a comparison of the U.S.A. and Taiwan.

I propose a sociological proposition: there are many retired scientists who are skeptical about global warming theory because they no longer have a vested interest in the outcome of any research.

Yes, from a sociological perspective I wonder what the leading lights of the Enlightenment would have been saying about AGW theory.

Thus, the tension between a plural understanding of regulations and a more general understanding of law is bringing into view a new landscape in which general legal frameworks — grounded in well - known legal theories stemming from 20th - century legal positivism or sociological jurisprudence — are made compatible with specific forms of rights management on the Web.