Sentence examples for sociological function from inspiring English sources

The fact that a way of life is entrenched or economically vital speaks only of its sociological function, not of its larger virtue.

One such site for contestation is children's literature, which has a sociological function to inform, educate and inculcate values which it deems important in its readers.

This approach, pioneered by others before Dumézil, also was skeptical of the easy identification of gods with natural forces and emphasized the sociological functions of the divinities without, however, holding to a reductionist theory.

The January issue of New Humanist - the magazine that I edit - featured a forthright and at times highly critical interview with Dawkins by Laurie Taylor - who is every inch a secularist and an atheist but takes a different view on notions such as the inevitability of progress, or the sociological functioning of faith.

At the time, long before mobile technologies became widespread, Mr Oldenburg wanted to distinguish between the sociological functions of people's first places (their homes), their second places (offices) and the public spaces that serve as safe, neutral and informal meeting points.

8 Higher depression states in unemployment is caused by reduced sociological functions such as status identity, social contacts, participation in collective purposes and regular activities.

In addition, they served an important sociological role.

- Dr. James Gilligan, author of "Violence: Reflections on a Western Epidemic" "To use sociological jargon, the latent function of hazing is that it differentiates and separates one from, and at the same time makes one feel superior to, whatever mainstream you're defining yourself against.

An overview of the current challenges attached to grazing lands and their management in livestock farming systems in South European environments, an understanding of the ways to jointly meet production objectives and the realisation of sociological and ecological functions is presented.

"Porn Theater" functions best in its voyeuristic, sociological mode, offering fragmentary glimpses of complicated lives and the complicated social rituals that shape them.

I don't know, and maybe this is something I need to work through in therapy, but either way, VICE decided to launch an inquiry into the sociological underpinnings regarding the performance of bodily functions within romantic relationships.