Sentences with phrase «sociologists from»

The research, by a pair of sociologists from Michigan and Oklahoma State Universities, had access to a decade's worth of annual opinion poll data from Gallup.

Survey A group of sociologists from the University of St.Gallen has teamed up with the Pierre Bourdieu Foundation and Art Basel to sketch the state of the art arena from different perspectives.

Sociologists from their ivory towers tell us that by giving beggars money we will be causing them more harm than good.

This is according to a new study on Tinder, relationships and online honesty carried out by sociologists from Manchester Metropolitan University.

The fact that science flourished at all in this period is puzzling, for sociologists from Weber to the present have generally argued that decentralized political conditions are most conducive to intellectual innovation, and yet the seventeenth century was the great age of absolutism.

As one pair of sociologists from The University of North Texas and Rice put it, «in a society that encourages men to be dominant and women to be submissive, having the image of tall men hovering over short women reinforces» the very idea that men must be the aggressors and the chasers when it comes to romantic relationships.

Gummi Oddsson, a cross-cultural sociologist from Northern Michigan University, has found that Nordic governments go to great lengths to build trust in local communities.

Emilio Willems, a sociologist from the United States, sees the growth of Pentecostalism as a reaction to the pressures for survival and social ascent that have accompanied modernization.

Mina Ramirez, a sociologist from the Philippines, reminds us: «The most subtle form of dominance is that of the mind.

In writing about the disinformation campaign, this website has often relied upon the work of Dr. Robert Brulle, a sociologist from Drexel University, and Dr. Riley Dunlap, a sociologist from the University of Oklahoma, along with a few other sociologists who have been examining the climate change disinformation campaign through the lens of sociology for over a decade.

David Finkelhor, a sociologist from the University of New Hampshire, and his colleagues surveyed 3,391 5 - 17 year - olds and asked about their exposure to various violence prevention programs.

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A 2013 survey conducted near its Tasiast mine in Mauritania by local sociologists found that the number of households living below the poverty line had been cut by more than half since 2011 and the unemployment rate had declined from 47 per cent to 24 per cent.

However, as the sociologist Susan Shapiro points out, third parties merely shift the trust problem from one entity to another.

Sociologist Zeynep Tufekci said on Twitter that she believes while media outlets seem incapable of resisting the lure of an email dump from a prominent figure, there are risks to publishing indiscriminately from such hacks that could have long - lasting impact.

Duke University professor and sociologist Jeffrey Swanson, who specializes in studying the link between violence and mental illness, told Vox that even if everyone who suffers from bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and depression in the US were cured overnight, violent crime in the US would only fall by around 4 %.

He is a sociologist with a doctorate in education from Harvard University.

«We just have this great big unknown out there about where all the money is coming from,» Robert Brulle, a sociologist at Drexel University who studies money in the conservative movement, recently told me.

At the same time, climate - denier funding from family and corporate foundations — say, Exxon's foundation — has declined, according to Robert Brulle, a sociologist at Drexel University who studies the climate change «counter-movement.»

Moreover, it is now doubtful whether the efficient market hypothesis makes any kind of sense. Indeed, a great many economists and bankers have discovered Minskyâ $ ™ s views on financial fragility and his financial instability hypothesis, according to which banks and financial markets can not be left to themselves: we need regulations even though regulating markets may not succeed in avoiding another crisis once the memory of the current crisis has faded away.As told to me by a law student recently hired by Blackrock, the largest asset manager in the world, with assets totalling more than 3,500 billion dollars â $ «thatâ $ ™ s one and a half times larger than UBS and twice as large as PIMCO â $ «many asset managers are now turning away from hiring neoclassical economists and actually prefer hiring engineers, sociologists and even philosophers.

Sociologists and psychologists hold that some of the emotionality in prejudice stems from subconscious attitudes that cause a person to ward off feelings of inadequacy by projecting them onto a target group.

A trenchant quote from the sociologist Christian Smith: «Liberal Protestantism's organizational decline has been accompanied by and is in part arguably the consequence of the fact that liberal Protestantism has won a decisive, larger cultural victory.»

Borrowing from the work of sociologist Donald Miller, Wells sees «postmodern spirituality» at work in emerging, extra-denominational «new paradigm churches» characterized by three modes of thinking» the therapeutic, the individualistic, and the anti-establishmentarian.

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But any genuine recovery of a «particular language of faith» will entail developing and appropriating a theological tradition and embodying that tradition in faithful living — a project that necessarily requires motivations and insights deriving from a quite different kind of authority than the sociologists possess.

It might be objected here that one can not leap from sociological reality to ecclesial mission: the church is not called simply to follow sociologists» recipes for institutional growth.

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.

Both men, from their differing perspectives on culture — Berger as a sociologist of religion and Lewis as a professor of English literature — have allowed play to be the activity we have described in Chapter Two.

More recently, most antipoverty research has been oriented to verifying the theories of William Julius Wilson, a prominent sociologist, that the ghetto is poor because it is cut off from mainstream society.

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.

Some sociologists and anthropologists have begun to study community life from the perspective of narrative and dramaturgy.

In the time since its release, the book has been featured in nearly everything from The Washington Post to BBC Radio to Oprah, spurring off its own website, speaking engagements, and recognition from social scientists and sociologists alike.

My findings confirm what sociologist Robert Wuthnow discovered in his study of American religious life: people divorce economics from religion.

He borrowed the phrase from Ruby Jo Kennedy, a sociologist who published in 1944 an article on intermarriage in New Haven called «Single or Triple Melting Pot?»

Anthropologists, psychologists, and sociologists, especially those who study folklore and oral traditions, have done much good work in classifying such stages, all the way from the most primitive animism to the most sophisticated philosophical monotheism.

No theory need cover the entire range of social realities, of course, but it is worth noting that sociologists seem to have gained more mileage from this framework for their considerations of individual beliefs than for analyses of large - scale institutions.

Again the historian, the sociologist, and political scientist lend him material for the examination of historical societies and civilizations from the point of view of his interest.

There has been much discussion whether the sociologist of religion is right in viewing his material from a special point of view and handling it according to a special method, or whether he has a more or less well - circumscribed field which he can call his own.

The recent work of German sociologist Jurgen Habermas, in which questions about the formal characteristics of social systems in general and the dynamics of the lifeworld are the focus, exhibits a clear preference for deductive theory of a prescriptive sort.13 Habermas has drawn eclectically from modernization theory and Marxism to create what he calls a reconstructive model of cultural evolution.

One Jewish sociologist has estimated that if we extrapolate from present trends, by the year 2076 there will be only 10,240 Jews in the United States.

But Berger, the sociologist - turned - lay - theologian, curiously doesn't don his sociologist hat to tell us how to separate out the false from the true prophets of perception in a world of often distorting mass communications.

Sociologist Julie Phillips has documented how from 2000 to 2005, suicide rates among less - educated middle - aged men increased between 12 percent and 30 percent even as they remained stable for better - educated men.

McDonough, a trained sociologist, is the author of Men Astutely Trained, a long book describing the difficulties of American Jesuits as they make the transition «from a rule - governed hierarchy to a role - driven network.»

Those accustomed to reading analysis of faith - based reforms by sociologists, theologians and social workers can learn much from the political science perspective.

One was the work of a sociologist, Earl Brewer, who, with the aid of a theologian and a ministries specialist, sought by an extensive content analysis of sermons and other addresses given in a rural and an urban church to differentiate the patterns of belief and value constituting those two parishes.67 The second was the inquiry of a religious educator, C. Ellis Nelson, who departed from a curricular definition of education to envision the congregation as a «primary society» whose integral culture conditions its young and old members.68 James Dittes, the third author, described more fully the nature of the culture encountered in the local church.

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.

The acceleration of congregational studies in the last quarter century sprang in part from fresh and troubling inquiry by sociologists who probed the parish as a social organization.

He provides personal background which informs this choice, then outlines his case using insights from other sociologists as well as social commentators.

He provides some personal background which informs this choice, then outlines his case using insights from other sociologists as well as social commentators.

the «fantastical» — may well be that they are trying to shield themselves from the devastating criticism of sociologists and political philosophers, who point out the sociocultural rootage and relativity of many of our religious symbols.