Sentences with phrase «what sociologists»

''... successful professionals must cultivate a mix of what sociologists call «bonding capital» (connections with people like yourself) and «bridging capital» (connections with people who are different.)»

Alternatively, see what Sociologists earn in other states.

Green consumption became what sociologists call «positional consumption» — consumption that distinguishes one as elite — and few things were more ecopositional than the Toyota Prius, whose advantage over other hybrid cars was its distinctive look.

The climate change disinformation campaign that arose in the 1980s was part of what sociologists call a countermovement, that is a movement that arises when elements of society are threatened by social movements that are perceived to potentially adversely affect their interests.

You can't be a half - decent sociologist of science without getting your nose into philosophy, but it's still quite possible to be a philosopher of science without taking interest in what the sociologists have been up to.

Reblogging thus has similarities to what sociologists call prosumption, the act of consuming and producing at the same time.

He is also promoting race discriminations in an evil way — that is what sociologists refer to as intentional discrimination.

Reardon told me that studying gaps is useful despite my objections because «educational success is at least partly what sociologists call a «positional good» — meaning that one's educational success has value partly because of where one ranks relative to others.»

Therefore, they have acquired what sociologists have described as «interactional expertise» through immersion and experience in the business.

In many schools with large number of low - income students, the signs of what sociologists refer to as the «culture of poverty» — such as children defiantly acting up — are visible.

Employing the comparative method with such natural experiments of history is no different from what sociologists and economists do in comparing natural experiments of society today.

The new democracies that are investigated in this book represent a variety of what sociologists call «glocalism»: homogenisation and heterogenisation coexist, revealing hybrid models and multiple modernities.

One area of overlap and potential conflict is what sociologists call the problem of legitimacy, which includes among other things the question whether existing political authority is moral and right or whether it violates higher religious duties.

These categories, he recognizes, are what sociologists call «ideal types.»

What Küng has observed firsthand is a validation of what sociologists and pollsters have been telling us for years: masses of Americans are having difficulty coping with the loss of certainty that is perhaps the most telling feature of postmodern culture.

Even those in traditional religious groups who seem religiously disengaged exhibit arguably religious practices, including what sociologists call «vicarious religion,» «believing without belonging,» and «everyday religion.»

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

This view of love is used to justify what sociologist Francesca Cancian calls the «duty family.»

This will provide space for the nuanced discussions between what sociologist Robert Nisbet called the «laissez - faire of social groups.»

The first person singular will often be circumscribed by expressions denoting humility while the first person plural, «we,» serves to indicate, often in sharp opposition to the outside, what the sociologist calls the in - group.

This cheerful way of looking at the world, which is part of the very structure of American culture, can be seen in the experience of all newcomers to the country of what the sociologist John Murray Cuddihy has aptly called the «ordeal of civility.»

That's what a sociologist does.

The subject no longer discovers mystery from without but produces the effect of mystery from within by what sociologist Philip Rieff calls «psychologizing interminably» about its own interiority.

One could argue further that value has special socializing potency in the academy because of what sociologist Everett Hughes calls «the cloistering effect,» the powerful socializing impact on persons who live almost totally immersed for a period of time within one institutional setting.

They address what sociologist Alain Ehrenberg named the typical mental diseases of contemporary capitalist society: depression and addiction.

Non-custodial parents who see their children so seldom often become what sociologist Susan Stewart has called «Disneyland Parents,» more entertainers than parents.

Not exact matches

«As they struggled to figure out what made a team successful, Rozovsky and her colleagues kept coming across research by psychologists and sociologists that focused on what are known as «group norms» - the traditions, behavioral standards, and unwritten rules that govern how teams function when they gather... Norms can be unspoken or openly acknowledged, but their influence is often profound.»

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.

Sociologist James Davison Hunter told religion reporter Terry Mattingly that he recognized what was happening during a church - state court case in 1986:

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

The distinguished sociologist of the University of Virginia and author of the acclaimed Culture Wars here undertakes a close examination of what, in theory and practice, «moral education» means in most American schools.

Joachim Wach, a sociologist of religion, has suggested four characteristics of religious experience and belief: (1) Religion «is a response to what is experienced as ultimate reality; that is, in religious experiences we reach not to any single or finite phenomenon, material or otherwise, but to what we realize as under - girding and conditioning all that constitutes our world of experience.»

What is important, however, once sociologists and historians have made their observation, is how mainline church leaders react to this «postliberal» state of affairs.

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.

Rather than looking to the psychologists and the psychiatrists and the sociologists, and even to the theologians, to find out about gay people, there is a need to listen to gay people within our churches and within the society, to begin to understand what we perceive to be the problems, and then together to work on those problems.11

Sociologist Edward Castranova says: «We're witnessing what amounts to no less than a mass exodus to virtual worlds and online game environments.»

By the family I do not mean only what nowadays sociologists call «the nuclear family» — husband, wife, and children.

I see Jesus as the ultimate sociologist today, in the spirit of questioning «what we take for granted».

It is for this reason that globalization is socially, culturally, religiously threatening and has engendered what one sociologist calls «ethnic and cultural protectionism».

Process thinking has made its own contribution to this cooperative attempt on the part of physiologists and psychologists, biologists, chemists, anthropologists, and sociologists to see more completely what is distinctively human.

Judy Singer, the Australian sociologist who coined the term, says she «was interested in the liberatory activist aspects of it — to do for people who were neurologically different what feminism and gay rights had done for their constituencies.»

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.

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

[9] What follows is a rearrangement of a list Carroll (ibid., p. 10) draws from sociologists Wilbert E.Moore And G. W. Rosenblum, The Professions: Roles and Rules (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1970), p. 5.

The effort to characterize construals of the Christian thing in the particular cultural and social locations that make them concrete will involve several disciplines: (a) those of the intellectual historian and textual critic (to grasp what the congregation says it is responding to in its worship and why); and (b) those of the cultural anthropologist and the ethnographer [3] and certain kinds of philosophical work [4](to grasp how the congregation shapes its social space by its uses of scripture, by its uses of traditions of worship and patterns of education and mutual nurture, and by the «logic «of its discourse); and (c) those of the sociologist and social historian (to grasp how the congregation's location in its host society and culture helps shape concretely its distinctive construal of the Christian thing).

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.»

Sociologists Tristan Bridges and Melody L. Boyd note that what used to make a man marriage material is changing — it's not just education and jobs (although, yes, women generally want a husband who makes a good salary, and for many lower - socioeconomic women, that's essential).

But I just finished reading two books about what's happening on college campuses now — American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus by sociologist Lisa Wade and Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus by feminist and social critic Laura Kipnis — and I actually do feel quite blessed that my college days are long past.

Sociologist Elizabeth Murphy has argued that government breastfeeding policy in the United Kingdom has relied on a sort of «quiet coercion,» a phenomenon quite similar to what is happening here, on the other side of the pond.

As sociologist Philip Cohen detailed this week, just 34 percent of all young children are being raised in what we consider a «normal» modern family — two working parents.