Sentences with phrase «work as a sociologist»

For several years now, my work as a sociologist has circled around the phenomenon of pluralism.

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.

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According to the sociologist Harriet B. Presser, as of 2003, two - fifths of American workers were working non-standard hours — «in the evening, at night, on a rotating shift, or during the weekend» — and she wasn't counting those who bring their work home and do it on their off - hours, or who are self - employed.»

He frequently cites the work of Frank Furstenburg and Arlie Hochschild, two sociologists of family and gender relations whose views are by no means ideologically conservative, and he avoids value - loaded language, especially when it comes to describing the mainline Protestant churches whose leadership has, by and large, capitulated to the secular - elitist acceptance of extramarital sex, abortion, homosexuality, and other practices that conservative Christians view as inimical to moral life and family health.

If sociologists have tended to center on the foregoing argument and to single out work as the basis of their assessment of our present inability to play authentically, theologians and philosophers have tended to: focus upon a second area: America's distorted value structure that has accepted as true the «mindscape» of technology 48 This is Theodore Roszak's phrase, and his discussion can perhaps serve as a helpful starting point.

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.

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...

Since 1960 over two hundred books and countless reports have examined either single congregations or their species, and any new work such as mine gratefully follows the tracks that many sorts of explorers — consultants, management specialists, sociologists, psychologists, ethnographers, historians, and others — have already laid down.1 Prior to 1960 the investigation of the local church was more occasional, and except for a few books written to enliven parish programs2 and the pioneering sociology of H. Paul Douglass, 3 the analysis occurred primarily in Europe.4

One was the work of a sociologist, Earl Brewer, who, with the aid of a theologian and a ministries specialist, sought by an extensive content analysis of sermons and other addresses given in a rural and an urban church to differentiate the patterns of belief and value constituting those two parishes.67 The second was the inquiry of a religious educator, C. Ellis Nelson, who departed from a curricular definition of education to envision the congregation as a «primary society» whose integral culture conditions its young and old members.68 James Dittes, the third author, described more fully the nature of the culture encountered in the local church.

Two influential, non-Catholic figures immediately come to mind: sociologist Max Weber described a «Protestant work ethic» that explained the rise of capitalism and modernity on the basis of a disembodied understanding of salvation inherited from the Reformers; and systematic philosopher Georg Hegel hailed the Reformation, «the all - enlightening Sun,» as ushering in modern times by freeing «the specific and definite embodiment of Deity» from any «outward form» so that one may be reconciled to God «in faith and spiritual enjoyment.»

As sociologist Robert Bellah said: «Each individual must work out their own ultimate solutions and the most the church can do is to provide a favorable environment for doing so, without imposing on him a prefabricated set of answers.»

Which is great and a start, but in order to make it work, people will have to follow that talk with action, and that isn't as easy as it seems, as Canadian sociologist Andrea Doucet has long written about.

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.

As a sociologist who frequently works in schools, Kimberly Moss - Dobbins has seen many children who could use a little extra attention after the dismissal bell has rung.

The Globe article quoted Dr. Murray Straus, a sociologist at the University of New Hampshire who studies the effects of corporal punishment on kids, as saying that people think that spanking will work when nothing else does.

''... in a new Council on Contemporary Families briefing paper, the sociologists Margaret Usdansky and Rachel A. Gordon report that among mothers of young children, those who were not working and preferred not to have a job had a relatively low risk of depression — about as low as mothers who chose to work and were able to attain high - quality jobs.

They are Michael Birt, 58, a gerontologist and director of the university's Center for Sustainable Health; Jennifer Glick, 42, a sociologist and demographer at the ASU Center for Population Dynamics; and Haruna Fukui, 32, a Japanese graduate student working on her Ph.D. in sociology with Glick as her adviser.

Social network analysis has its theoretical roots in the work of early sociologists such as Georg Simmel and Émile Durkheim, who wrote about the Traffikd is an internet marketing and social media blog that aims to provide readers with practical, relevant information that they can use in their own

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.

Social network analysis has its theoretical roots in the work of early sociologists such as Georg Simmel and Émile Durkheim, who wrote about the Social Psychology Links: Prejudice, Persuasion, Conflict, Romance, and Many Other Topics

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 artisAs 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 artisas good a diary of the fears and hopes of the last twenty years as any other body of work from any other single artisas any other body of work from any other single artist.

At the conference, scheduled to be held late last week, several social - science researchers, such as the University of North Carolina sociologist Glen H. Elder Jr., were expected to discuss ways they used archival data for their work.

As she once said to me, social scientific portraiture was the way that she learned how to do the work of a sociologist, and her commitment to asserting the artful rigor of this research methodology has forever changed my expectations of social scientific research.

Dr. Braddock has received many honors for his work, including the James E. Blackwell Founders Award (for distinguished service and lifetime achievement) from the Association of Black Sociologists (2008), and an appointment as a Member of the National Research Policies and Priorities Board, U. S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement (appointed by Richard Riley, U. S. Secretary of Education 1995 - 1999, reappointed for six - year term 1999 - 2005).

This movement had been in the works since as far back as the notorious Coleman Report, a massive 1966 government study written by sociologist James Coleman, officially titled «Equality of Educational Opportunity.»

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.»

Quoting the sociologist Micki McGee, Ehrenreich shows how, under this new orthodoxy of optimism, «continuous and never - ending work on the self [was] offered not only as a road to success, but also to a kind of secular salvation».

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.

Drawing on anthropologist Mary Douglas's interpretations of sociologist Ludwik Fleck, the exhibition juxtaposes works that were produced in collective environments in the 1990s with new structures and films produced alone; as such the exhibition reflects on the contradictions that arise between the individual and the group in relation to the production of art.

Lecture by Marie - Hélène Bourcier (queer activist, sociologist and Maître de conférences at Lille University III & Paris I, Researcher at the Ecole Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) re-examining works by artists such as Annie Sprinkle, Kara Walker, Nicole Eisenman and less known pansexual or queer young porn directors.

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.

As part of her research on friendship, Condorelli has invited her friend the sociologist Avery Gordon to converse and think on the subject with her, considering the subject in relation to her own work.

@ Patrick B. Although I am a historian and hence see sociologists as disciplinary parasites who have appropriated history's domain to create a «science» of society, there have been valuable contributions by sociologists to our understanding of the history of science, notably in the work of Robert Merton.

As a sociologist, he has done important work, particularly in his research on the environmentalist movement.

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.

Renewed interest among sociologists and demographers (Furstenberg and Cherlin, 1994) in the link between poverty and single parenthood soon emerged, and as noted above, that work increasingly began building toward the conclusion that family structure did matter (McLanahan and Sandefur, 1994).

Among the research author Po Bronson gathered for his various books, he notes the work done by sociologist Paul H. Jacobson as proof:

In truth, published sociologists refer to the Millennials, in part, as the generation who «work to live».