As a mother myself, as
well as a sociologist who studies families, I have experienced firsthand the unexpected costs associated with having a child.
His careful suggestions open up fresh understandings for the religious practitioner as
well as the sociologist.
Not exact matches
Consciously or unconsciously, the movement also validates an insight which
sociologists confirm: The
best predictor of whether a child will remain religious
as an adult is not the religiosity of the mother — for children tend to take that for granted — but of the father, because he is not expected to be religious.
Increasingly, denominations are loose coalitions, but the one thing they do
best,
as sociologist Nancy Ammerman has observed, is to behave like denominations.
And this is something Berger the theologian,
as well as Berger the
sociologist, is unwilling to do.69
When
sociologist Orrin Klapp, in 1962, categorized the five most popular American social types, he included among «winners» giants of intellect
as well as exemplars of brawny physique (Heroes, Villains, Fools: The Changing American Character [Prentice - Hall], chapter 1).
the preoccupation of the psychologist with purely human behavior, its description, and development; the preoccupation of the
sociologist and cultural anthropologist with the forms and development of society, make these mental health professionals unable to define the function of the churchman, though their professions may
well be of immense importance in providing information when the clergyman thinks through his unique and necessary role
as pastor to persons.
There can be some doubt
as to how the work of the special
sociologist of religion should be organized, that is, in which order he would proceed
best.
The growth and decline of specifically religious organizations and groups is a theme of the greatest importance to the
sociologist as well as to the historian of religion.
There emerge types of religious leaders — whose lives the historian has illumined, whose intellectual and emotional makeup the psychologist has investigated, and whose social role the
sociologist has explored —
as well as types of religious groupings and religious institutions.
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.
This contrasts with the climate of American public schooling
as described by
sociologist Anthony Bryk et al. in Catholic Schools and the Common
Good (1993, 2009): «Mirroring the spiritual vacuum at the heart of contemporary American society, schools now enculturate this emptiness in our children....
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.
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.
Thus they urge historians of religions to concentrate more on the historical, phenomenological, and institutional aspects of religions, depending heavily on the co-operation and assistance of anthropologists,
sociologists, philologists, and universal
as well as regional historians.
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.
Sociologists also deal with such topics
as the components of culture, i.e., beliefs, values, language, and norms; cultural dynamics; cultural integration; cultural change; ideal culture, what people profess to follow, and real culture, how people actually behave in relation to these claims; ethnocentrism, the proclivity to see one's culture
as the
best and consequently all others
as inferior; and cultural relativity.
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.
John Sugden, an English
sociologist who pioneered the «twinning» concept 25 years earlier with a mixed - faith soccer team in Belfast during the height of the Troubles and who is now the director of Football 4 Peace, doing in the Middle East with soccer what PPI does with basketball, puts it both wryly and
well: «It's not
as if you can sprinkle the pixie dust of sport and everything's going to be fine.»
«The Poverty Clinic,» [PDF] March 21, 2011 «In the view of Burke and the researchers she has been following, many of the problems that we think of
as social issues — and therefore the province of economists and
sociologists — might
better be addressed on the molecular level.»
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.
Christine Carter, Ph.D. is a
sociologist and happiness expert at UC Berkeley's Greater
Good Science Center
as well as author of «Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents.»
Those who coordinate such projects have to be able to speak to medical people, epidemiologists, statisticians, economists, and
sociologists as well as administrators and data security personnel and be able to understand their different concepts and principles.
According to a study conducted by
sociologists at the University of Rovira i Virgili (Spain), there is a feminine way
as well as a masculine way to behave on the Internet: males tend to directly allude to ethnic and cultural issues whereas females are less obvious in doing so.
But some
sociologists, such
as Millsom Henry - Waring of the University of Melbourne, have given warning that electronic forms of communication in general — and digital - dating services in particular — are gradually changing society's conception of relationships and marriage for the worse by encouraging people to view partners
as commodities that can simply be traded in for
better versions at the click of a computer mouse.
as well as the dating app's own
sociologist,
As a sociologist, intentional or not, he is absolutely brilliant, and just on the strength of his Rocky and Rambo pictures, he's managed as good a diary of the fears and hopes of the last twenty years as any other body of work from any other single artis
As a
sociologist, intentional or not, he is absolutely brilliant, and just on the strength of his Rocky and Rambo pictures, he's managed
as good a diary of the fears and hopes of the last twenty years as any other body of work from any other single artis
as good a diary of the fears and hopes of the last twenty years
as any other body of work from any other single artis
as any other body of work from any other single artist.
Better known
as the Coleman Report after its first author, the eminent
sociologist James Coleman, the document provided abundant evidence of large gaps in reading and mathematics skills between black children and white children and between children from poor families and those from more affluent families.
There is an extended amount of
sociologists included here which are not included on the specification,
as well as those that are included.
For example, some of the
best research has focused on «family income»
as a predictor of education success, but Susan Mayer, a University of Chicago
sociologist, has shown that unexpected changes in family income by themselves have little effect on a child's educational performance.
«
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.
I recently had the opportunity to contribute an article on
sociologist James Coleman's research on Catholic schools to a special issue of Education Next commemorating the 50th anniversary of his 1966 «Equality of Opportunity» study —
better known today
as the Coleman Report.
We asked Carrie James, a
sociologist at the Harvard Graduate School of Education who explores connections between young people's digital, moral, and civic lives, to share perspectives on the Carter / Roy case,
as well as takeaways for parents and educators.
The authors, accomplished
sociologists all, place the book in this context, arguing that the pervasive narrative that Baltimore's youth are just a bunch of «thugs» is hugely inaccurate
as well as unfair.
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.&raqu
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.&raqu
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.
As the national organization for
sociologists, the American Sociological Association, through its Executive Office, is
well positioned to provide a unique set of services to its members and to promote the vitality, visibility, and diversity of the discipline.
Arlie Russell Hochschild's dive into the heart of Tea Party America is
as good a glimpse of right wing philosophy
as an East Coast born, Berkeley educated
sociologist can offer.
Not the original intention, but I recently read a story that skirts around the substantive core of Credit Slips,
as well as the fabulous work of
sociologist Viviana Zelizer, a past Credit Slips guest.
This group of portraits includes
well - known figures such
as playwright, actress, and author Alice Childress; the
sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr.; the community activist Mercedes Arroyo; and the widely published academic Harold Cruse; alongside more anonymous individuals of a nurse, a ballet dancer, a taxi driver, a businessman, and a local kid who ran errands for Neel.
Spotted entering the former gallery was artist of the moment Simon Denny,
as well as dealer Jessica Silverman beaming alongside her partner, the art world's resident
sociologist, Sarah Thornton.
Their dialogue delves into the complicated notion of the Brazilian imaginary
as espoused by
sociologist Gilbreto Freire, who founded the museum in 1979 for which these artworks are named,
as well as authored the seminal text Grande e Senzala (The Master and the Slaves), first published in 1933.
Martial Raysse: Visages will be complemented by a publication featuring essays by curator and art historian Jane Livingston and
sociologist Dr. Eduardo de la Fuente,
as well as a specially commissioned poem by Leopoldine Core.
This group of portraits includes
well - known figures such
as playwright, actress, and author Alice Childress; the
sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr.; the community activist Mercedes Arroyo; and the widely published academic Harold Cruse; alongside more anonymous individuals of a nurse, a ballet dancer, a taxi driver, a businessman, a local kid who ran errands for Neel, and other children and their families.
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.
A publication, The Company She Keeps, a collection of conversations exploring ideas of friendship between Céline Condorelli and the philosopher Johan Hartle,
as well as her friend the
sociologist Avery Gordon, previously presented
as part of the How To Work Together «Think Tank», edited by Nick Aikens and Polly Staple, was published by Book Works, Chisenhale Gallery and Van Abbemuseum in June 2014.
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.
Judith Curry:
Well, the climate change debate seems to be diversifying,
as sociologists, philosophers, engineers and scientists from other fields enter the fray.