Sentences with phrase «sociological work»

Other examples of remedial efforts taken too far include Justice Zucker's decision last year in R. v. Ururyar, which drew significant attention in its extensive reference of sociological work on gender issues and sexual assault in society.

This political effort has been made possible by the sociological work of Dunlap, Brulle, and McCritte, among others.

And so there is a growing body of sociological work that is now available to help citizens understand how the cultural understanding of climate change has been manipulated at the federal level in the United States and in several other countries.

But of course these reviews of climate science butt up against a similarly robust body of psychological and sociological work showing how hard it is for information, even reliable authoritative information, to break through the barriers within the human mind (not to mention our polarized politics) that can impede rational risk management.

This all jibes with earlier posts here on what is perhaps the most unnerving, and under - appreciated, body of science related to problems like the greenhouse - gas buildup — the sociological work showing how poorly people deal with looming risks (from global heating to Social Security insolvency) and exploring ways to improve the situation.

We also consider evidence directly connected to the intervention in question (for instance, studies of a particular implementation in an animal advocacy context) as well as evidence more distantly related (for instance, from general psychological studies or from sociological work done on other movements for social change).

The foundation of most Sociological work is the skill of writing a good Sociology Essay.

Nearly a half century has passed since the publication of Coleman's landmark study, and no sociological work about today's youth has taken its place.

Other sociological work has shown that low - income people are generally able to reach other individuals with low incomes, but not those with high incomes.

However, sociological work is restricted to the function of myths, images and rituals, and not with truth claims.

The notions of «emergence» and «emergent properties» are used to develop an account of the structure - agency relationship that is consistent with Berger's concrete sociological work, whilst avoiding the shortcomings of his explicit reflections about the nature of the social world.

We have to do the sociological work about how a medium or genre's overall popularity might be changing the mores and character of the entire society, or even of modern humanity simply.

George Bernard Shaw Peter L. Berger, the most eminent sociologist of religion in the world today, many of whose sociological works as Berger says «read like a treatise on atheism,» has written a mature and skeptical affirmation of Christianity in his new book Questions of Faith: A...

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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.

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.

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.

During a major topping and declining mood trend, all kinds of sociological forces work against corporations that are visibly successful.

Finally, there are powerful sociological and economic forces at work.

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.

While this may be excusable in Howard and Streck since they are writing a work of social analysis, there are sociological issues that deserve serious engagement.

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.

His work epitomizes a peculiarly modern way of dealing with moral problems: debunk, deconstruct and dissolve them by treating them as products of sociological pressures and ideological mystifications.

The philosophical and historical work of Wilhem Dilthey, himself averse to establishing an independent sociological discipline, proved to be important systematically and epistemologically (Theodor Litt, Joachim Wach).12

The Israelite who did not joyfully rest from his work on that day was one who put his hope in his own work rather than in God's election.22 According to de Quervain,»... when our minds are illumined by faith, we see the Sabbath in Israel as grounded not in a sociological event, but in a theological one, the deliverance of God's people from bondage into the rest which he gave them as a token of the final rest.

As with other fields of sociological research the question has been asked if there is good enough reason to treat socioreligious phenomena separately instead of handling them in the traditional disciplines (theology, philosophy, anthropology, etcetera).30 Yet, as against such doubts, the work done by modern scholarship has proved the right to an independent existence of «sociology of religion.»

Yet it is more accurate to call it a work of sociology than a work of history, for it develops a specific and arresting sociological...

Whether we are speaking of pastoral psychology as a more or less loosely organized body of principles which informed the daily work of increasingly larger numbers of ministers educated in the better seminaries, or whether we are talking about pastoral psychology in its more professional manifestations in the form of institutional chaplaincies or church - related counseling centers, the sociological origins of the movement tended to render it ineffective in relating to the specific problems and life - styles of the poor.

As I use the word in this book, it refers to that group of over forty - five million Americans and millions more worldwide who believe in (1) the need for personal relationship with God through faith in the atoning work of Jesus Christ, and (2) the sole and binding authority of the Bible as God's revelation.5 «Evangelical» is, first of all, a theological term, though its adherents may also have derivative sociological and psychological traits.

In the first part of his work, Crossan draws heavily on just the kind of sociological and anthropological models Meier avoids.

In an ambitious project of precisely this nature, William Everett and T.J. Bachmeyer work out an elaborate paradigm in which they interrelate three theological approaches — cultic (Catholic), prophetic (Protestant), and ecstatic (Anabaptist)-- with three sociological traditions — functionalism (unitary view of society), dualism (conflictual), and pluralism (balance of powers)-- with three psychological viewpoints — conflictual, fulfillment, and equilibrium.

Alt's work was undermined by shifting sociological theory, Albright's by accumulating archaeological evidence that did not fit his correlations between archaeology and the Bible.

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.

But changes in vision, direction or setting have occurred: van Buren became a leader in Christian - Jewish dialogue, Altizer has been working in a department of English to deconstruct God - talk, and Rubenstein has continued a psycho - sociological inquiry into religion.

Yet it is more accurate to call it a work of sociology than a work of history, for it develops a specific and arresting sociological thesis.

In between; most of my work as a sociologist was directly concerned not with religion but with modernization and Third World development, as well as with the problem (which first preoccupied me in the Third World) of how sociological insights can be translated into compassionate political strategies.

In 1998 the International Sociological Association voted the book he coauthored with Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality (1966), one of the five most influential works in the field in the twentieth century.

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.

This is consistent with sociological research indicating work as a respite from stressful home life.

The sociological and economic changes to the country that have shrunk the trade unions, disconnected the working class from Labour, and transformed party membership, such that Labour's politics and culture is increasingly divergent from the mainstream middle and working classes.

The answer to the problem is not the preserve of one discipline or scientist but will be found where several disciplines work together to tackle the biological, ecological, environmental, geographical, agricultural, and even sociological, economic, and financial barriers to feeding the world.

It is my hope that in the conduct and completion of this work some of the barriers impeding the solution of our sociological as well as scientific problems have been removed.»

Hyde Strategy, and it exploited a sociological loophole: What you do after work is your own business and won't be held against you as long as it doesn't distract from your day job.

The study, a working paper presented this week at the 2016 American Sociological Association's annual meeting, suggests that men and women who begin to consume pornography partway through their marriages are more likely to get a divorce than their non — porn - consuming peers.

A working paper presented this week at the 2016 American Sociological Association's annual meeting suggests that men and women who begin to consume pornography partway through their marriages are more likely to get a divorce than their non — porn - consuming peers.

Having groups of fishers play two simple games standard in sociological research, Basurto and colleagues show that the players from marine protected areas became both more generous and more cutthroat toward competition, compared with those who did not work in protected areas.

«If the committee could pull together what we already know... and make very strong recommendations» regarding changes in science and engineering education, the effort would be worth it, says Elaine Seymour, who works in the Bureau of Sociological Research at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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.

I think the work on the molecular basis of sociological phenomena by Tom Insel and Cori Bargmann is very interesting.

«Particle astrophysics does not describe scientific reality but a sociological one: fields of astrophysics on which many particle physicists are working, «says Jean - Pierre Lasota - Hirszowicz, a principal investigator at the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris.

Although working mothers and fathers are almost as likely to think about family matters throughout the day, only for mothers is this type of mental labor associated with increased stress and negative emotions, according to new research to be presented at the 108th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.