sociological explanation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsociologicalandexplanation
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sociological
adjective
uk/ˌsəʊ.si.əˈlɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/us/ˌsoʊ.si.əˈlɑː.dʒɪ.kəl/
related to or ...
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explanation
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌek.spləˈneɪ.ʃən/us/ˌek.spləˈneɪ.ʃən/
the details or reasons that someone gives to make something clear or easy ...
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(Definition ofsociologicalandexplanationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This alternative hypothesis does not make asociologicalexplanationa serious competitor for the explanation of theistic experiences.
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The important issue here is to find a convincingsociologicalexplanationfor the experiences and views reported by older people.
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Thesociologicalexplanationexplains well the connection between mysticism and social context for all forms of mysticism, theistic and non-theistic alike.
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We do not need the theistic explanation here, and so ought not to ' tack it on ' to thesociologicalexplanation.
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This type of popularsociologicalexplanationis no more adequate than the earlier rigidities of biological determinism.
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Among the earliest studies were those contributing to "interest theory," or thesociologicalexplanation of scientists'general behavior by appeal to their professional interests.
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The fact that there has been an increase probably reflects the spread of pre-marital intercourse in an increasingly permissive society, but an adequatesociologicalexplanationrequires much further research.
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This subject has heretofore been dominated by sociological explanations of the 1970s and early 1980s.
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Central to sociological explanations of social change, however, is a fundamental debate about the relative influence of structure or agency as the driving force over the dynamics of social relations.
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One of the most recent sociological explanations is that, because unskilled young men can no longer maintain a family, women are rejecting them.
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I am not opposed to dealing with the matter in that way, and there are psychological and sociological explanations for that type of behaviour.
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This is due to the idea that the character and level of female crime is not consistent with the traditional sociological explanations of crime.
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Berthelot created a typology of sociological explanations, constituted by six logical schemas of intelligibility: causal, actancial, hermeneutic, structural, functionalist and dialectic.
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