Sentences with phrase «sociologists like»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Again I would like to point out that the video I linked to is excellent and basically starts with the sociologist sharing his own alarming personal revelation.

It's because of Dawkins that I now take biology classes so that I can be an historian, theologian and sociologist just like him.

Increasingly, denominations are loose coalitions, but the one thing they do best, as sociologist Nancy Ammerman has observed, is to behave like denominations.

Sociologists of religion like Max Weber and Émile Durkheim have observed that being religious in this broad sense refers not to a matter of personal choice but to a fundamental human drive to make sense out of reality.

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...

It is not surprising that the slums in our cities, where there is an intense struggle for basic necessities, have become scenes of violent conflict, M.N. Srinivas, the eminent sociologist, observes «The richest soil for communal frenzy to build on is poverty, illiteracy, unemployment and slum — like conditions — all of which are m plenty in urban India» (India Today, January 16 - 31, 1993).

Sociologists and anthropologists have spoken of the way in which the nuclear family — the small group of three or four persons — can be vicious because it may (not must) become centered on its own existence and, hence, entirely inward - looking — like a pond with no outlet.

The human conglomerate which the sociologists needed for the furtherance of their speculations and formulations now appears scientifically defined, manifesting itself in its proper time and place, like an object entirely new and yet awaited in the sky of life.

Indeed, Baylor University sociologist Rodney Stark argues that surveys like Pew's give a false impression of how many genuine Nones exist.

Most sociologists and political analysts would hold the antebellum strongholds of the Southeast — places like Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana — as the most socially conservative states in the Union.

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.

In 1977 sociologist Daniel Bell, contemplating «the return of the sacred,» suggested that societies like ours are not so much secular as they are made up of persistent religious subgroups.

Christian Smith, a Notre Dame sociologist and recent convert to Catholicism, explains that for Catholics, present Christian divisions are like a human body chopped to bits: «Suppose I took your body and cut it down the middle into two parts, and then cut one of the parts into little bits.

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.

The jury also included experts such as Laura Esquivel, author of the best - seller Like Water for Chocolate, the Basque writer Kirmen Uribe, Cristina Franchini, expert in international law, the rural sociologist Matthew Goldfarb and María Fernanda di Giacobbe, winner of the Basque Culinary World Prize 2016.

International experts in other disciplines joined them including novelist Laura Esquivel, author of the hugely popular novel Like Water for Chocolate; Kirmen Uribe, one of the most widely read and translated Basque language authors; Cristina Franchini, an expert on International Law; Matthew Goldfarb, organic farmer, rural sociologist and expert in sustainable production; and María Fernanda di Giacobbe, winner of the 2016 Basque Culinary World Prize.

When I spoke with Eric Anderson, an American sociologist at England's University of Winchester and author of the provocative book, The Monogamy Gap: Men, Love, and the Reality of Cheating, he said people are afraid to be honest about things like their sexual needs and desires that monogamy doesn't allow, and because of that they often start cheating:

While celebrity solo (in more ways than one) artists like Nicki Minaj are starting the new year just «focusing on their work,» other singles are «feeling refreshed and ready to put themselves out there,» Tinder's resident sociologist affirms.

While some sociologists seem to perpetuate relationship stereotypes with their work (like the amount of trophy wife and sugar daddy pairings out there), spouting out scientific jargon and abstract theories, McClintock strives to change that.

i finished my degree as a sociologist and am now working with a textile company as a supplier.i like reading, cooking and going to the sea side to observe things of nature.

Whereas readers in the 19th century looked to writers like Balzac, Dickens, and Trollope for critical insight into the intricacies of social patterns, by the mid-20th century we were looking instead to reports by sociologists to gain similar understanding of our way of life.

Sociologist and digital learning expert Diana Rhoten founded the New Youth City Learning Network to help organizations like museums and libraries design digitally - enabled learning activities built to tap into kids» interests and teach 21st - century skills.

But in stark contrast to the image of a perpetual «urban underclass» depicted in television by shows like The Wire, sociologists Karl Alexander, Doris Entwisle, and Linda Olson present a more nuanced portrait of Baltimore's inner - city residents that employs important new research on the significance of early life opportunities available to low - income populations.

For instance, if you are doing sociology major, you may not be aware of what it is like to be a sociologist, however, through writing a sociology thesis, then you open a window into that world.

While sociologists have studied the effects on society of having a significant portion of the population unqualified and incapable of securing employment, companies like Cengage are actively working to do something about it.

Not someone who has ever worked in publishing, who knows what publishers do behind the scenes, or what the issues are, or how the distribution works, or what the boots - on - the - ground challenges are, or how the industry is changing, or what publishers do to help authors build long term careers, or the differences between large and small presses, or the history of returnable books or what it's like to work with major distributors such as Amazon... a sociologist, armed with some numbers.»

GETTING YOUR GROOVE BACK Christine Carter gets things done: She's a sociologist at UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center; is the best - selling author of Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents; has been cited in The New York Times; interviewed on TV by the likes of Oprah and Dr. Oz; and is raising two daughters.

The data is, naturally, fairly inconclusive (these are journalists, not sociologists, so it's not like they're isolating variables in order to figure out the ol' causation / correlation conundrum), but I thought it was a relatively interesting look

So I don't want to discuss sexuality like a sociologist, but rather create a sensuous atmosphere in the work.»

«Late Barbarians» takes its title from an expression by German sociologist Norbert Elias, which suggests that our future descendants may eventually consider us to have lived during an extended medieval period, implying that we share far greater affinities with our Barbarian forefathers than we might like to think (1).

Alice Neel, Uptown features both well known figures such as playwright, actress and author Alice Childress; sociologist Horace R. Clayton Jr.; and community activist Mercedes Arroyo, as well as anonymous individuals like children, families, a taxi driver, a ballet dancer, a nurse and a boy who ran errands for Neels.

Schlingensief's Animatograph installation is framed by documentation material presenting the genesis and development of this installation, and complemented by a think tank that includes talks, screenings, live concerts, and performances by Swedish and international artists such as, among others, Tania Bruguera, The Errorists (Hilary Koob - Sassen and Andreas Köhler), Jeuno JE Kim and Ewa Einhorn, the independent theatre group Institutet, as well as renowned scholars like filmmaker - theorist Trinh T. Minh - ha and sociologist Saskia Sassen.

The book includes well - known figures like playwright, actress, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr.; the community activist Mercedes Arroyo; and the widely published academic Harold Cruse, as well as those only identified by their race and ethnicity, with special attention given to peoples of Latinx, African - American, Arab, and Asian descent.

Like a deranged sociologist, he creates perplexing situations in these communities and documents their unfolding.

(London, UK) The exhibition takes its title from an expression by German sociologist Norbert Elias, which suggests that our future descendants may eventually consider us to have lived during an extended medieval period, implying that we share far greater affinities with our Barbarian forefathers than we might like to think.

The exhibition takes its title from an expression by German sociologist Norbert Elias, which suggests that our future descendants may eventually consider us to have lived during an extended medieval period, implying that we share far greater affinities with our Barbarian forefathers than we might like to think.

The exhibition takes its title from an expression by German sociologist Norbert Elias, which suggests that our future descendants may eventually consider us to have lived during an extended medieval period, implying that we share far greater affinities with our Barbarian forefathers than we might like to think (1).

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.

It's a particularly strong no when words like «radiation» and «nuclear» are involved, as has been described by the historian Spencer Weart in «Nuclear Fear» and is also captured vividly in «Radiation's Lingering Dread,» a 1990 article by the sociologist Kai Erikson.

My recent post on this question mainly focused on the American Geophysical Union, creating an extraordinary flow of comments that some sociologists are currently examining for clues to how and why humans sort into passionate camps on issues like global warming.

I suspect the sociologists will love the IPCC because it embodies exactly the kind of politicised «science» they like to portray.

Psychologistics, sociologists, neurologists and the like are wheeled out to pass judgement on anything from family life, teenage alcoholism, war even men trapped down mines.

In a 2015 press release from Drexel University, he called for the greater involvement of sociologists in the climate change cause, in order to «answer questions like, how can we change our culture of consumption, how will we respond to extreme weather events caused by climate change and how do we bridge the political divide on this issue.»

Just like here in Oz so called research which is not unbiased and independent where a sociologist tells everyone we are NIMBYs, or have the «nocebo» effect or are mental.

Occasional commenters like the sociologist Robert Phelan sometimes post enlightening comments placing it in a wider social and cultural context.

Any sociologists, anthropologists... out there that would like to correct my impressions?

However, neither are the bright, new ideas of scientists not traditionally involved in the IPCC, like sociologists such as myself.

We aren't nearly as busy as we think we are, according to sociologist John Robinson, even if we feel like we are working all the time.