Families of the Slums (Minuchin et al., 1967) recounts the experience, which started at the opposite end of the traditional psychodynamic approach —
with a sociological analysis of the impact of social context on poor families.
Not that there aren't many other aspects of family law requiring careful revisiting: the court structure, coordination between criminal and family courts (work is being done in this area, too), ensuring that the legal meaning of family keeps up
with sociological changes, the matrimonial home regime and on and on.
Gonzalez - Foerster uses live performance and holographic projections that conflate characters from history, literature and film
with their sociological sources and ramifications.
Concerned
with a sociological reading of the art scene in Beirut and interested in cultural policy, she has been particularly devoted to commissioning local artists to explore the possibilities of engaging social, aesthetical or political dialogues in different contexts that are on the margin of the art world.
The notion of love as passion, so much at the core of Surrealism, has evolved
with the sociological changes of intimacy toward a tension between romantic love versus marriage and the attempt to build a new form of relationship based on a more egalitarian exchange, that we could call «amour convergent» or «pure relationship», thanks to the battles of feminism and new intimacy, as discussed in «The Transformation of intimacy» from sociologist Anthony Giddens.
People have let me get away
with my sociological banter and think I'm very verbal where I feel as though I'm terribly non-verbal because nobody has really pushed me on these things, and i clam up like; anyway and can't really talk about it.
Though her artistic practice is typically concerned with consent and the individual empowerment of her subjects, this new body of work regards her subjects
with sociological distance.
Where there has always been an engagement
with the sociological in his work, Current Events provides a platform for Tomaselli to inject new «tendrils of the apocalyptic and pathological» into what he sees as the profuse, ornate and beautiful shape of nature.
You can also write fashion and blend
it with sociological meanings by exploring the cultural connections that underpin fashion.
As
with any sociological study, it is a given that those being studied are changed by the very process of being observed, and one wonders if (and how much) their stories were nuanced so as not to offend Hochschild.
It is a movement that came of age in an era in which the psychological society teamed up
with the sociological one and together marched into into our schools, making a beeline for what was considered the most troublesome though forgotten age group, 11 to 14.
This is consistent
with sociological research indicating work as a respite from stressful home life.
For the Church is the eschatological congregation of the saints whose identity
with a sociological institution and a phenomenon of the world's history can be asserted only in terms of paradox.
In this lecture I am concerned
with the sociological study of religion, its rights and assets, its dangers and its limitations.
These polarities can be suggestively associated
with the sociological theories of, respectively, Max Weber and Emil Durkheim.
In any case, it is not by aligning Christianity
with those sociological forms that the specific form Christian action should take today will be discovered.
And we can not fall in
with some sociological trend or conform to popular opinion.
Remember here our Mr. Ceaser's alliance
with the sociological left against UVA's Board of Visitors» efforts at disruption against the unproductive liberal arts and toward online education, MOOCS, and such.
Not exact matches
That was never a real concern, as long as immigrants assimilate, and it no longer lies in the mouths of Europeans, struggling
with a minority of indigestible and militant Muslims who occupy vast no - go areas across Europe, to comment on the relatively manageable
sociological problems of America.
What's more, those 9 - to - 5 schedules aren't a smart strategy: Employees
with flexibility in their workday report higher levels of job satisfaction and reduced levels of burnout and psychological stress, according to a study conducted over 12 months at a Fortune 500 company
with 700 employees and published in the February issue of American
Sociological Review.
His 2013 book, The Big Shift, written
with John Ibbitson, was inspired by the
sociological and demographic changes he's observed in his three decades in the industry.
Research from several sources, including a study by the American
Sociological Review, has found that people
with flexible schedules report that their overall sense of well - being increases
with flexible work options.
This is not conspiratorial but rather a
sociological commentary and the ruling elite is not beholden to an electorate but operates
with a sense of noblesse oblige.
And I've been sharing
with the organizers of a big Percy conference that will occur next year in the now - legendary St. Francisville my fake -
sociological efforts to distinguish Percy - ism from (Wendell) Berry - ism.
Being an African American, Mormon, or a woman has nothing to do
with solid reasonable political views, they are nothing more than physical or
sociological traits.
It is by
sociological and religious insight that we deal
with these areas of our experience.
This is NOT to say the resurrection did or did not happen, it is to say
with Troeltsch, that the resurrection is not a «historical» fact in the sense that it is not possible for historians to consider it — just as a supernova would not be a biological or
sociological «fact» because it is outside their scope, don't mean novae don't happen!
I have to admit I'd read allot of the arguments (I find allot of these movement relationship dynamics fascinating from a
sociological and psychological perspective as well as having endured my own share of toxic faith communities that have left me
with a perverse fascination
with researching what is going on).
Thus they are carried away by a whole complex of emotions and ideas; authentic spirituality, aspiration for a true church, suffering
with the poorest of the poor; but also,
sociological conformism, assent to commonplace notions, a bad social conscience (which relieves the individual of his responsibility), extremist and excessive simplification (for it must never be forgotten that recourse to violence is always and above all an act of inhuman simplification).
Stark invaded the realm of historians and biblical scholars in 1996
with The Rise of Christianity, a
sociological account of why the early church grew.
Is the problem then
with the way the churches articulate their beliefs, or
with the patterns of church worship, or are the reasons
sociological?
Personally, I've got a better theology of ministry on Good Friday («Christ died for our sins in accordance
with the scriptures»),
with all sorts of sound
sociological, psychological reasons for death and defeat, than I have a pastoral theology robust enough for Easter («He was raised on the third day in accordance
with the scriptures»).
Not one to mince words, Stark dismissed most earlier
sociological explanations of women's greater religiosity as «tautological, inconsistent
with the evidence, or silly.»
(Although I think not even he,
with his remarkable gifts for
sociological prophecy, could have imagined an Archbishop of Canterbury calling the introduction of Islamic law in the United Kingdom «unavoidable.»)
Sociological studies have been made but the limitations and detachment
with which such studies are produced rarely shed great light on the lived existence of the Catholic collectivity.
Indeed, a «
sociological imagination» is slowly transforming all theologies — sometimes
with unsettling and explicit power, as in the use of critical social theories in political and liberation theologies; sometimes
with more implicit but no less unsettling effect, as in the increasing use of sociology of knowledge to clarify the actual social settings (or publics) of different theologies.
With the rise of race as an issue of major
sociological importance, Herberg's book became a quaint tale of American innocence before the fall.
Evolution has nothing to do
with understanding human emotions or
sociological explanations for how people live.
By contrast, conflict models in
sociological theory emphasize the ways in which different groups in a society pursue their own interests and the ways in which different ideologies struggle
with one another.
His work epitomizes a peculiarly modern way of dealing
with moral problems: debunk, deconstruct and dissolve them by treating them as products of
sociological pressures and ideological mystifications.
Two decades after «Dover Beach,» the Fabian Socialists in England were busily, busily building on the ruins
with education,
sociological research and reform.
This emphasis may provide a refreshing contrast to
sociological approaches concerned
with broad generalizations about culture and society — approaches in which the individual actor seems to have been lost.
Second, it offers an inquiry into the principles (causes, laws, values), the forms (media, personnel, action, and atmosphere), and finally the general
sociological categories of religious communality, in virtual if not conscious agreement
with the theories of Scheler, Litt, and Mead.
Another
sociological explanation of the phenomenon is that the traditional functions of the clergy are not adjusted to the needs of the modern world and that the responsibility for the prevailing uncertainty must be placed on the Church as a cultural laggard which has not kept up
with the times.
In this context, Gandhi stresses the analogy between Collingwood's reformed metaphysics and Strawson's descriptive metaphysics, two conceptions that, on Gandhi's view, have to be rejected.3 A concept of metaphysics such as that of Whitehead necessitates, on the contrary, «the analysis and critical evaluation of scientific presuppositions in connection
with presuppositions of other domains of civilized thought (moral, religious,
sociological, aesthetic, etc.), so as to arrive at a satisfactory conception of the most fundamental characteristics of all that we encounter in our experience.
As
with other fields of
sociological research the question has been asked if there is good enough reason to treat socioreligious phenomena separately instead of handling them in the traditional disciplines (theology, philosophy, anthropology, etcetera).30 Yet, as against such doubts, the work done by modern scholarship has proved the right to an independent existence of «sociology of religion.»
Until a far greater percentage of churchgoing Americans and Canadians have become more articulate about the faith, it is absurd to imagine that North American church folk could stand back from their
sociological moorings far enough to detach what Christians profess from the mish - mash of modernism, secularism, pietism, and free - enterprise democracy
with which Christianity in our context is so fantastically interwoven.
That is, to bridge the gap between gospel and situation, engaging in an apologetic that will reinforce the ties of trust and co-operation between the church and the
sociological segments
with which, traditionally, we have made our bed.
As I use the word in this book, it refers to that group of over forty - five million Americans and millions more worldwide who believe in (1) the need for personal relationship
with God through faith in the atoning work of Jesus Christ, and (2) the sole and binding authority of the Bible as God's revelation.5 «Evangelical» is, first of all, a theological term, though its adherents may also have derivative
sociological and psychological traits.
While he looks askance at historical interpretation per se, he is completely impatient
with «
sociological» interpretation, dismissive of «psychological» interpretation, alert to what is «ideological» and utterly contemptuous of what he terms «modern «politically correct» formulation.»