Sentences with phrase «sociologist peter»

According to sociologist Peter Frumkin and his co-author JoAnn Jastrzab, every $ 1 spent on AmeriCorps state and national programs provides the federal government with $ 3.52 worth of work.

[2] The Townsend deprivation score is a measure of material deprivation within a population, first described by the sociologist Peter Townsend.

The work of sociologist Peter L. Berger has been particularly influential in guiding us toward an understanding of everyday reality and its relation to the sacred.

Newbigin borrows the idea of «plausibility structures» from sociologist Peter Berger, and links it to the idea of knowledge as personal commitment A la Michael Polanyi.

To better appreciate the nature of the enterprise that Kurzweil and Leibowitz engage in as Orthodox intellectual cranks it would be useful to consider the categories employed by sociologist Peter Berger, the leading academic analyst of the modernization process.

Several of his reviews of books by sociologist Peter Berger are posted online at Amazon.com.

But as sociologist Peter Berger noted some years ago, religious experiences, whatever else they are, are institutionally dangerous.

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

These are to be distinguished from fraudulent pretenders to the title such as Colonel Qaddafi's Popular Democratic Republic, the so - called Democratic Republics of the old USSR, etc.) The sociologist Peter Berger, against his own earlier predilections, has shown in The Capitalist Revolution that among all existing nations capitalism is a necessary (but not sufficient) condition for democracy.

Distinguished sociologist Peter Berger defends what he regards as American civil religion, the first commandment of which is (he says) «Thou shalt be tolerant!»

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Adventures of an Accidental Sociologist: How to Explain the World Without Becoming a Bore by Peter L. Berger Prometheus, 264 pages, $ 26 From Austria to America, from aspiring Lutheran pastor to eminent sociologist, from liberal to neoconservative, Peter Berger has had a remarkable and pSociologist: How to Explain the World Without Becoming a Bore by Peter L. Berger Prometheus, 264 pages, $ 26 From Austria to America, from aspiring Lutheran pastor to eminent sociologist, from liberal to neoconservative, Peter Berger has had a remarkable and psociologist, from liberal to neoconservative, Peter Berger has had a remarkable and peculiar....

The idea of plausibility structures has provided sociologists with their best entrée to the study of religion within the perspective outlined by Peter Berger.

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...

To come up with the new definition, researchers sought input from a diverse group of sociologists, theologians, and evangelical leaders, including: Richard Mouw, Paul Nyquist, Mark Noll, Rodney Stark, Christian Smith, Penny Marler, Nancy Ammerman, Mark Chaves, Scott Thumma, Warren Bird, Andre Rogers, Peter Lee, Tammy Dunahoo, Gabriel Salguero, Heather Gonzales, Samuel Rodriguez, Kevin Smith, Jo Anne Lyon, Leith Anderson, and Lynn Cohick.

And he clearly adores his three pet sociologists, Peter Berger, David Martin, and James D. Hunter.

Sociologist and In These Timescontributor Peter Frase (full disclosure: my boyfriend) crunched the numbers and found that in virtually every county, Cuomo got fewer WFP votes than any of the party's other statewide cross-endorsed candidates.

The anticipated boost in fertility rates is not large enough to alter projections that the global population will level off by midcentury, says study coauthor Hans - Peter Kohler, a sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania.

He interviewed sociologist Nickie Charles who has carried out research into pets as kin.

Peter — i'm talking about actual social networks as studied by anthropologists and sociologists, not the articulated kinds available on services like Orkut and Friendster.

In a recent study, sociologist Riley Dunlap and political scientist Peter Jacques find that 92 percent of the books promoting climate skepticism are associated with conservative think thanks:

The economist Robert Frank; the sociologist Theda Skocpol; the blogger Ezra Klein; and my Brookings colleagues Warwick McKibben, Adele Morris, and Peter Wilcoxen have all in the last few months proposed enacting a carbon tax for purposes of averting «Taxmageddon» and discouraging carbon pollution.