Sentences with phrase «sociologist writing»

C. Wright Mills, an American sociologist writing in the 1950s on «Intellectual Craftsmanship» (an appendix to his book, The Sociological Imagination) captured nicely the tension in academic writing that can equally apply to legal writing.

Richard Madsen is the only sociologist writing about «The Upsurge of Religion in China.»

A sociologist wrote that men are ingrained with the responsibility of approach, but the internet has revolutionized that notion.

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Writing on the Greater Good Science Center blog recently, sociologist and positive psychology expert Christine Carter made much the same case, writing that the secret to accomplishing more is to stop doing everything you dislikeWriting on the Greater Good Science Center blog recently, sociologist and positive psychology expert Christine Carter made much the same case, writing that the secret to accomplishing more is to stop doing everything you dislikewriting that the secret to accomplishing more is to stop doing everything you dislike doing.

«Bill Gates is one of the richest people in the world,» writes sociologist Waqar Ahmed, stating the obvious.

Comedian Aziz Ansari teamed up with sociologist and author Eric Klinenberg to write «Modern Romance,» an in - depth investigation into the reality of what it's like to date and look for love in the digital era.

Galen Cranz, a sociologist and professor of architecture at the University of California Berkeley who has long crusaded for more active work environments writes via e-mail: «It will take cultural change in order to make significant change.»

Drawing on the work of New York University sociologist Patrick Sharkey, Richard Florida wrote that 70 percent of black residents in America's poorest and and most segregated neighborhoods «are the children and grandchildren of those who lived in similar neighborhoods 40 years ago.»

Thus Columbia University sociologist Courtney Bender writes about «Spirituality and the «Occupy Wall Street» Movement»:

In the course of writing my book Catholic Matters (forthcoming from Basic Books), I had occasion to revisit Gerhard Lenski's The Religious Factor: A Sociologist's Inquiry.

I. I. Mitroff and W. Bennis, two sociologists, wrote a book in 1989 called The Unreality Industry.

A sociologist like William Julius Wilson can underline the importance of economic factors, pointing to the precipitous decline in manufacturing, and at the same time write frankly about the destructive influence of ghetto culture which lacks a viable middle class that once served as a «social buffer.

And anyone — except possibly an illiterate idiot or a professional sociologist — can write that story successfully.

Another sociologist, George Stewart, had written in 1954 that if Americans did expect foreigners to change their language, «we did not really expect a man to change his faith.»

A group of 17 historians, theologians, and sociologists of religion were invited to write articles on specific topics.

It's this kind of research that led Princeton sociologist Sara McLanahan and her colleague Gary Sandefur to write that if they we were to design a family, the «two - parent ideal... [would ensure] that children had access to the time and money of two adults... would provide a system of checks and balances that promoted quality parenting... [and the] fact that both parents have a biological connection to the child would increase the likelihood that the parents would identify with the child and be willing to sacrifice for that child, and it would reduce the likelihood that either parent would abuse the child.»

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...

Since 1960 over two hundred books and countless reports have examined either single congregations or their species, and any new work such as mine gratefully follows the tracks that many sorts of explorers — consultants, management specialists, sociologists, psychologists, ethnographers, historians, and others — have already laid down.1 Prior to 1960 the investigation of the local church was more occasional, and except for a few books written to enliven parish programs2 and the pioneering sociology of H. Paul Douglass, 3 the analysis occurred primarily in Europe.4

Writing in 1982, after a decade in which the church as a whole had pursued the inner mechanisms of congregations, several sociologists reported as follows: «We share the conviction that in recent years congregational analysis has over-emphasized the internal dynamics of congregational life and has failed to sufficiently account for the influence of the social and ecological context of the church's inner life.

In his column today, Michael Gerson writes about a Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life event at which the sociologist Robert Putnam spoke.

As evangelical sociologist (and CT board member) Michael Lindsay once wrote in 2008, «Political movements like the Religious Right don't need a «god» to succeed, but they do need a devil.

That volume, along with four other notable books written in a burst of creative energy while he was still in his thirties — The Noise of Solemn Assemblies (1961), Invitation to Sociology (1963), The Sacred Canopy (1967), A Rumor of Angels (1969)-- made him the best - known sociologist of his era.

Several decades ago German sociologist Helmut Schelsky wrote an influential article under the title «Can permanent reflection be institutionalized?»

While the impact of these classical theories has remained strong, I would like to point to a specific contribution that, in my view, has served as a kind of watershed in our thinking about the cultural dimension of religion: Clifford Geertz's essay «Religion as a Cultural System,» published in 1966.1 Although Geertz, an anthropologist, was concerned in this essay with many issues that lay on the fringes of sociologists» interests, his writing is clear and incisive, the essay displays exceptional erudition, and it provides not only a concise definition of religion but also a strong epistemological and philosophical defense of the importance of religion as a topic of inquiry.

I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake.

Which is great and a start, but in order to make it work, people will have to follow that talk with action, and that isn't as easy as it seems, as Canadian sociologist Andrea Doucet has long written about.

Vicki has been a speaker at numerous events, including the Women's Power Strategy Conference, the Capitol City Young Writers conference and the Writing Mamas monthly salon, and has been mentioned on «The View,» the Rush Limbaugh show, the podcast «The Bold and the Beautiful, The Young Turks, Australia's Daily Edition, Your Tango, Café Mom's The Stir, and by Calgary Herald columnist Stephen Hunt, sociologist Andrea Doucet, Madder Men cartoonist Rob Scott, dating expert Evan Marc Katz and websites such as Jezebel, The Good Men Project and Why No Kids.

The study, which was written by sociologists Margaret L. Usdansky at Syracuse University and Rachel A. Gordon at the University of Illinois at Chicago, using data from the Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD), could help in understanding the problem of maternal depression, which is beginning to concern sociologists.

In the above passage, political sociologist Charles Tilly was writing not about modern - day Afghanistan, but about early European states where functional governments took centuries to emerge.

Todd Gitlin, a sociologist and Columbia University journalism professor who has written extensively about social protest movements, said the «odds are strong» that the groups would persist through the midterm elections, but «after that God only knows.»

«I think it's fair to say that the women who have run the gauntlet and gotten advanced STEM degrees will find the labor market quite welcoming if they choose to seek employment in academic STEM jobs,» writes Jennifer Glass, a sociologist at the University of Texas, Austin, in an e-mail.

Other sociologists I admired wrote to me,» Norgaard recalled.

Latour, who retired last month from his official duties at Sciences Po, a university for the social sciences here, shot to fame with the 1979 book Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts, written with U.K. sociologist Steve Woolgar.

«I think there's sort of an assumption in the field of people who study women in STEM that somehow the women are the problem,» says Andrew Penner, a sociologist at the University of California, Irvine who wrote a perspective accompanying the new study.

«Even in one - shot interactions, humans are not as selfish as theory suggests,» write physicist - sociologist Dirk Helbing and colleagues.

In 1968, sociologist Jean Baudrillard wrote on automatism that «contained within it is the dream of a dominated world -LSB-...] that serves an inert and dreamy humanity.»

As sociologist Daniel Bell once wrote, «The nation - state is becoming too small for the big problems of life, and too big for the small problems of life.»

But sociologists often write as unclearly as the abstract indicates.

Social network analysis has its theoretical roots in the work of early sociologists such as Georg Simmel and Émile Durkheim, who wrote about the Traffikd is an internet marketing and social media blog that aims to provide readers with practical, relevant information that they can use in their own

Social network analysis has its theoretical roots in the work of early sociologists such as Georg Simmel and Émile Durkheim, who wrote about the Social Psychology Links: Prejudice, Persuasion, Conflict, Romance, and Many Other Topics

SE: In his seminal 1972 study titled Inequality, the Harvard - based sociologist and statistician Christopher Jencks wrote, «The case for or against desegregation should not be argued in terms of academic achievement.

We asked Nathan Glazer, the Harvard sociologist and Education Next's longtime book reviewer, if he would write an introduction to this issue.

An equally impressive account of district - school life is to be found in The Shopping Mall High School, written by sociologist Arthur Powell and his colleagues in 1985.

In one of his early writings, excerpted in the following pages, James S. Coleman, the brilliant sociologist who later wrote the famous report on the equality of opportunity for education (the «Coleman Report») and the first study of public and private schools, identified the essential high - school problem: «our adolescents today are cut off, probably more than ever before, from the adult society.»

While reading articles for his Ph.D. in Harvard's sociology department, Jack says the story — whether it was written by an anthropologist, economist, or sociologist — was always the same.

«As I write this book, I'm not writing it for sociologists or for a battle to see who understands x theory better,» he says.

As sociologist Joel Best writes in Damned Lies and Statistics, «We may think of statistics as facts, but people make facts meaningful, and analysts» ideologies shape the meanings they assign to social statistics.»

As Northwestern University sociologist Robert Gordon recently wrote, «Companies pay better - educated people higher wages because they are more productive.

This movement had been in the works since as far back as the notorious Coleman Report, a massive 1966 government study written by sociologist James Coleman, officially titled «Equality of Educational Opportunity.»

The study's authors, Dana Beth Weinberg and Adam Kapelner, a sociologist and mathematician, respectively, found that even when you looked at book genres that are dominated by female authors, the percentages only go up by an average of 9 % — so, even if hardly any men are writing, say, romance novels, the women who are writing them are still getting screwed out of equal pay.