Lewontin did not commit Lewontin's fallacy, his critics do: Why racial taxonomy is not useful for the scientific study of human variation

Sociology of religion in the West is a field of knowledge with at least 100 years of history. As a science and as a discipline, the sociology of religion has been developing in most Western universities since the late nineteenth century, having established traditions, forming well-known schools, areas related to the names of famous scholars. The total number of researchers of religion abroad has never been counted, but there are more than a thousand different centers, universities, colleges where religion is taught and studied. If we assume that each of them has an average of 10 religious scholars, theologians, then the army of scholars of religion is amazing. Most of them are united in representative associations of researchers of religion, which have a clear sociological color. Among them are the most famous International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR) and the Society for Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR).

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Духовное влияние советского строя на иерархов и духовенство в 1960-е—1980-е годы (SPIRITUAL INFLUENCE OF THE SOVIET SYSTEM ON HIERARCHS AND CLERGY IN THE 1960-s – 1980-s)

Традиции и современность ◽

10.33876//2687-119x/2020-24/3-18 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 3-18

Author(s):

Олег Викторович (Oleg V.) Кириченко (Kirichenko)

Keyword(s):

Scientific Study ◽

Natural Phenomenon ◽

Soviet System ◽

The West ◽

The Church

Статья посвящена малоизученному явлению – церковному инакомыслию, которое было порождено влиянием «советской духовности» не только на общество, но и на Церковь. Автор ставит проблему инакомыслия и диссидентства как явлений, выросших в недрах высшей советской номенклатуры и потом уже распространившихся на низшие слои, затронувшие и церковную среду. Апелляция к Западу, как к третейскому судье, была закономерным явлением советской действительности, что требует научной проработки и объяснения. The article is devoted to a little-studied phenomenon – church dissent, which was generated by the influence of "Soviet spirituality" not only on society, but also on the Church. The author poses the problem of dissent and dissidentism as phenomena that grew up in the the higher Soviet nomenclature and then spread to the lower layers, affecting the church environment. An appeal to the West as an arbitrator was a natural phenomenon of Soviet reality, which requires scientific study and explanation.

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Study of Serbian Medieval Apocrypha

Bulletin for the Study of Religion ◽

10.1558/bsor.38615 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 48 (3-4) ◽

pp. 41-45

Author(s):

Isidora Ana Stambolić

Keyword(s):

Scientific Study

The paper seeks to give a brief overview of the scientific study of Serbian Medieval Apocrypha, from it's beginnings to the present day.

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Bringing Moral Culture into the Fray

10.23943/princeton/9780691164342.003.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Justin Farrell

Keyword(s):

Environmental Conflict ◽

Scientific Study ◽

Theoretical Argument ◽

Moral Culture ◽

Social Scientific Study ◽

The Social ◽

Social Scientific ◽

Basic Level

This introductory chapter briefly presents the conflict in Yellowstone, elaborates on the book's theoretical argument, and specifies its substantive and theoretical contributions to the social scientific study of environment, culture, religion, and morality. The chapter argues that the environmental conflict in Yellowstone is not—as it would appear on the surface—ultimately all about scientific, economic, legal, or other technical evidence and arguments, but an underlying struggle over deeply held “faith” commitments, feelings, and desires that define what people find sacred, good, and meaningful in life at a most basic level. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.

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Developments in the Scientific Study of Nationality Languages in the Thirty-five Years Since Our Nation Was Founded

Chinese Sociology & Anthropology ◽

10.2753/csa0009-4625210168 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 68-80

Author(s):

Fu Maoji

Keyword(s):

Scientific Study

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Synergetic Theory of Document in Evolution of Document Science

Herald of an Archivist ◽

10.28995/2073-0101-2018-4-1060-1068 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 1060-1068

Author(s):

Galina A. Dvoenosova ◽

Keyword(s):

Social Role ◽

Scientific Study ◽

Self Organization ◽

Universal Theory ◽

Social Self ◽

Social Goal ◽

The Social ◽

Synergetic Theory ◽

First Time

The article assesses synergetic theory of document as a new development in document science. In information society the social role of document grows, as information involves all members of society in the process of documentation. The transformation of document under the influence of modern information technologies increases its interest to representatives of different sciences. Interdisciplinary nature of document as an object of research leads to an ambiguous interpretation of its nature and social role. The article expresses and contends the author's views on this issue. In her opinion, social role of document is incidental to its being a main social tool regulating the life of civilized society. Thus, the study aims to create a scientific theory of document, explaining its nature and social role as a tool of social (goal-oriented) action and social self-organization. Substantiation of this idea is based on application of synergetics (i.e., universal theory of self-organization) to scientific study of document. In the synergetic paradigm, social and historical development is seen as the change of phases of chaos and order, and document is considered a main tool that regulates social relations. Unlike other theories of document, synergetic theory studies document not as a carrier and means of information transfer, but as a unique social phenomenon and universal social tool. For the first time, the study of document steps out of traditional frameworks of office, archive, and library. The document is placed on the scales with society as a global social system with its functional subsystems of politics, economy, culture, and personality. For the first time, the methods of social sciences and modern sociological theories are applied to scientific study of document. This methodology provided a basis for theoretical vindication of nature and social role of document as a tool of social (goal-oriented) action and social self-organization. The study frames a synergetic theory of document with methodological foundations and basic concepts, synergetic model of document, laws of development and effectiveness of document in the social continuum. At the present stage of development of science, it can be considered the highest form of theoretical knowledge of document and its scientific explanatory theory.

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