Sentences with phrase «which social scientists»

That work, in which social scientists play important and diverse roles, requires fluency in a wide range of skills and disciplines.

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But as any social scientist worth their salt will tell you, happiness is a state, not a trait, which means the confluence of conditions necessary to sustain it are ever - changing.

The research threw up a concept known as homophily — a word invented by social scientists to describe the sociological phenomenon in which people are most drawn to others resembling themselves.

Levitt has worked tirelessly to build development studies as a multi-disciplinary field of scholarly endeavour, in which development economics plays an essential role but must be complemented by essential contributions from other social scientists and historians.

With his academic background as social scientist, he is passionate about new trends in urban affairs and the creative labor market, two things which are perfectly combined in the concept of coworking.

They include structural differences in the skeleton, the muscles, the skin, and the brain; differences in posture as - 0sociated with a unique method of locomotion; differences in social or - ganization; and finally the acquisition of speech and tool - using, together with the dramatic increase in intellectual ability which has led scientists to name their own species Ho - m - o sapiens sapiens — wise wise man.

Ethically, we are in an age in which there is grave doubt among theologians, philosophers, jurists and social scientists as to whether any universal principles exist which can be reliably known and used by the international community to define torture or terrorism as fundamentally wrong.

Though for a time social scientists gave credence to the secularization hypothesis, which predicted that American religion would become ever more privatized and American society ever more devoid of religion, this hypothesis appears to have been disproved.

Although, most Ph.D. candidates in the social sciences have well developed writing skills, which you do not), yet your post is peppered with terms used in ways no natural scientist would use them.

This assertion is not meant to imply that religion is either false or ultimately nothing more than the fabrication of human minds — indeed, Berger argues in other writings that the transcendent seems to break through humanly constructed worlds, as it were, from the outside, However, the social scientist must recognize the degree to which religion, like all symbol systems, involves human activity.

For the open - minded among the social scientists, Girard's work can serve as a gateway for the introduction of Kierkegaardian insights into social scientific thinking, which will always remain woefully incomplete as long as it functions without reference to religious transcendence.

This implies a recognition not only of the central importance of valuing in human life but also of the way in which the values of the psychologist and the social scientist affect their methods.

In a recent paper Rogers defines a person as a fluid process and potentiality «in rather sharp contrast to the relatively fixed, measurable, diagnosable, predictable concept of the person which is accepted by psychologists and other social scientists to judge by their writings and working operations.»

Some evolutionary social scientists refer to our species as «the moral animal,» which I suppose means that we have the potential to reflect on the affects of our behavior rather than simply be blindly driven by survivalist insticts.

Even the lonely task of the scientist is social, for the material on which he works as well as his personal life are products of the community.

In the first place, the leaders of the church have been induced to listen very closely to the social scientists and sociologists, and thus they have adopted programs and ideas of social planning which, worthy as they may be, can often be recognized only with difficulty as the real concern of the church.

A professor of education at Vanderbilt, Murphy is a social scientist, not an advocate, which makes his generally positive evaluation of homeschooling all the more significant.

Munich professor of theology Wolthart Pannenberg, sounding strikingly like a social scientist, has observed that «it is only by symbols and symbolic language that the larger community to which we belong is present in our experiences and activities.

And yet, the very grounds on which these controversies have been fought — arguing for the «scientific» basis of creationism, making use of the «rational - legal» procedures supplied by the modern court system, and drawing on social scientists for «expert testimony» — all point to the considerable degree to which even religious conservatives have accommodated to the norms of secular rationality.

This chapter deals with the place of science in the social order, and the channels through which the scientist can responsibly contribute to the formation of public policy.

If one omits the happy ending of Stage 7 (which Joan Jackson could include because her study was done in an AA wife's group), and translates the language of the social scientist into the parlance of everyday living, one has a picture of the starkest interpersonal tragedy.

Carter's fascination with the West leads him on to learned discussion of Frederick Jackson Turner's «frontier thesis» (which, despite flaws, Carter holds to be the most influential statement ever by an historian of America), along with the views of Russian ecologists, American social scientists, and a wide variety of conservationists.

When social scientists, in their efforts to remain simply «objective,» forget that people have a conscience to which they plead, they are in my opinion unrealistic and are not doing their duty as scientists.

Most social scientists are aware that each of us has an aspect of our personality that does not easily fit into the social settings in which we find ourselves.

We do not really know what to do with religiousness when it expresses itself outside those enclosures which historians and social scientists have carefully labeled religions.

But the modern, and dominant, view of developmental scientists like Steinberg is that the degree to which parents can successfully parent their children is highly dependent on how well their social environment — education, policy, media, culture, the economy — align to support children's development.

It took social scientists, for instance, to understand that parents in countries where girls are denied an education were not opposed to educating their daughters in principle, but very often simply wanted a certain kind of education — namely, one which is set within a religious context — for their daughters, and if that wasn't available (which it usually wasn't), they would choose no education at all as the lesser of two perceived evils.

One of the main problems that I was confronted with on - site, and one which many social scientists encounter too, is that «traditional» Western theory and methodology adequately prepare undergraduate and graduate students for carrying out research in their own societies, but neither prepare them for dealing with difficult research circumstances, nor do they train students for conflict areas in post-traumatic societies.Such history (and political science) courses seem to be functional and have roots in European reality.

Powerful new partnerships with the common aim of achieving a more environmentally and economically sustainable future can be forged by community action groups and local authorities - which often regard each other with mutual suspicion and mistrust according to social scientists.

That is they are quality checked by other experts and social scientists - which means the research questions, design and findings will be of the highest standards and quality.

I am pleased to be working with the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong to foster collaborations between social scientists which enable the best researchers to work together regardless of international borders.»

AAAS is also working on a global survey from which it hopes to help articulate the social responsibilities of scientists and engineers.

The second part of the AAAS effort, which is the focus of this report, was to design and pre-test a survey that would produce generalizable results about the views of scientists and engineers on their social responsibilities.

In the new research, the UB scientists found they could reverse those social deficits with a very low dose of romidepsin, which, they found, restores gene expression and function using an epigenetic mechanism, where gene changes are caused by influences other than DNA sequences.

As a scientist, how can you most effectively use social media to share your research and engage the public, and which platform is best suited for your goals?

The workshop — which will take place at Bear Creek Mountain Resort in Macungie, PA from June 11 - 13, 2018 — will bring together scientists from allied disciplines in the basic and social sciences and engineering to address many issues involved in multi-sensory data science as applied to problems in materials research.

Benjamin is a social scientist with expertise in the processes through which scientific and technical knowledge is created and fitted into societal relations.

There are many ways in which this most famous quote may be interpreted, but to us social scientists it illustrates perfectly the first and most important law in networking, that is, the law of the Small World.

Bowers worked with the US Central Command's human terrain analysis branch, which is separate from the army's Human Terrain System (HTS), a better known program that embeds social scientists within the military.

Notably we found evidence that different risk attitudes, which have not received much attention in understanding evacuation behavior, are associated with different behaviors,» states Sarah McCaffrey, lead author and research social scientist with the USDA Forest Service.

In a separate activity, participants played the dictator game, which economists and other social scientists often use to study decision - making.

In my view the dialogue between scientists and social scientists (of which I am one) needs to be stepped up.

Social scientists hope to persuade the Obama administration to reject the idea, which stems in part from criticism of the survey by some members of Congress.

As a scholar of science and technology studies (a social science field that aims to understand the social processes of knowledge production), I focused the 4 years of my Ph.D. on studying how the academic landscape in which today's postdoctoral life scientists develop their careers influences their working practices.

In 2009, Science Careers opened its social - network communities, beginning with the Clinical and Translational Science Network (CTScinet) for physician - scientists and MySciNet, which highlights diversity in the sciences.

But Edward O. Wilson, the Harvard professor of biology who is the father of sociobiology and the world's leading expert on social insects, believes that the virtues which GCMA imbued him with were crucial to forming his character, as a citizen and a scientist.

The discovery of this neuronal tally chart may help scientists to understand the neural mechanisms underlying normal social behavior in primates and humans, and might even provide insight into disorders such as autism, in which social processing is disrupted.

The scientists noted that they were unable to quantify some factors which could help influence medical charges for blood tests: «For example, many quality hospitals may choose to invest in higher quality facilities, supplementary services and social services than others,» they wrote in their report.

Follow up research by social scientists across the United States supported the theory, which developed into something of an iron law: the more siblings you have, the less education you will obtain.

The goal, which one early participant called the «widgetization of social science,» was perhaps best summed up in 2005 by Starnes Walker, then the Office of Naval Research's chief scientist, who said he wanted a Star Trek — like detector that could scan for evil intent.