"People can attribute crime to failing schools, failing families; there's a bunch of sociological things you can put your finger on," said Sgt. Rich Ring, supervisor of the city's homicide unit.
Like his friend and mentor Jerry Seinfeld, Elmaleh likes to work in an observational, sociological mode a tough thing to pull off when the society you're examining is less familiar to you than it is to your audience.
Or, to put a sociological gloss on things, we experienced "collective effervescence", the sociologist Émile Durkheim's term for rare moments of community cohesion marked by mass outpourings of a shared sentiment.
Apart from the sociological schema of things, family capitalism in Italy has a singularity than in other countries: the prevalence of family leadership even among larger companies.
For the tribesmen what is maalu is of more than sociological concern: whether things are maalu is, for the tribesmen, something that guides them in their behaviour.
Even if I could teach them something new about human nature, any attempt to explain to my in-laws why men do these things — however sociological, evolutionary-biological, or otherwise couched in generalization and detachment — would be extremely unwise.
I see us working out a lot of cultural things -- sociological problems -- with the mythology of superhero movies.
He says that he believes story writing should be about telling stories, rather than consciously instilling politics or sociological critiques, because those things always change, but stories never do.
"What seems to be happening is twofold: a massive thirst for ideas and insight, and another thing that's more sociological.
In essence, communication processes need to be studied because they are the sociological and organisational DNA that make things work [ 28].
