practice

Examples of practice in the following topics:

• Forms of Sociological Practice

  • While there remains considerable debate within sociology about the best function or purpose of sociological practice, three primary approaches provide the foundational cues for contemporary sociological practice.
  • Despite the fact that each of these views has been evident within sociological practices throughout the history of the discipline (as well as within and between other academic disciplines), they have become the source of heated debates throughout the last three decades.
  • Rather than taking sides in these debates, we thus provide introductory descriptions of these three major approaches to sociological practice, and encourage students to consider the pros and cons of each approach.

• Theory and Practice

  • Sociologists use both theory and practice to understand what is going on in the social world and how it happens.
  • There is a reciprocal relationship between theory and practice in sociology.
  • Sociologists go back and forth between theory and practice as advances in one require modification of the other.
  • Practice refers to the actual observation, operation, or experiment.
  • Practice is the observation of disparate concepts (or a phenomenon) that needs explanation.

• Alternatives to Traditional Health Care

  • Alternative medicine is any practice claiming to heal "that does not fall within the realm of conventional medicine".
  • They feel that healthcare practices should be classified based solely on scientific evidence.
  • Biology-based practices use substances found in nature, such as herbs, foods, vitamins, and other natural substances.
  • Integrative medicine is the combination of the practices and methods of alternative/complementary medicine with conventional medicine.
  • It may also include practices not normally referred to as medicine, such as using prayer, meditation, socializing, and recreation as therapies.

• Physicians, Nurses, and Patients

  • The patient is most often ill or injured and in need of treatment by a physician, advanced practice registered nurse, or other health care provider.
  • They may focus their practice on certain disease categories, types of patients, or methods of treatment; such physicians are known as specialist medical practitioners.
  • Medical practice properly requires both a detailed knowledge of the academic disciplines (such as anatomy and physiology) underlying diseases and their treatment, and also a decent competence in its applied practice.
  • Nursing Science is a field of knowledge based on the contributions of nursing scientists through peer-reviewed scholarly journals and evidenced-based practice.
  • The patient is most often ill or injured and in need of treatment by a physician, advanced practice registered nurse, or other health care provider.

• A Research Example

  • Devah Pager and Lincoln Quillian compared employers' responses on questions involving race-related hiring practices to their actual hiring practices by sending matched pairs of young men to apply for jobs, either both of European descent or both of African descent, but one of the men had a criminal record.
  • In short, Pager and Quillian found that employers, in their survey responses, were more open to the idea of hiring both African-Americans and ex-offenders than they were to the actual practice.

• Religion

  • Social class is associated with individuals' religious affiliations and practices but not with religiosity itself.
  • Social class, measured by socioeconomic status, is associated with individuals' religious affiliations and practices.
  • This affiliation has more to do with how religion is practiced rather than degree of religiosity.
  • Religiosity is measured by tracking frequency of church attendance, church group involvement, frequency of prayer, and other such markers of strength of religious practice.

• Women in Medicine

  • Women's participation in medical professions was limited by law and practice during the decades while medicine was professionalizing.
  • However, women kept practicing medicine in the allied health fields (nursing, midwifery), making significant gains in medical education and medical work during the 19th and 20th centuries.
  • The practice of medicine remains disproportionately male overall.
  • However, they have yet to achieve parity in practice.
  • In many developing nations, neither medical school nor practice approach gender parity.

• Religious Diversity

  • Religion in the United States is characterized by both a wide diversity in religious beliefs and practices and by a high adherence level.
  • The United States under the First Amendment allows people to practice their religious beliefs, despite differences in creed or culture.
  • Religion in the United States is characterized by both a wide diversity in religious beliefs and practices and by a high adherence level.
  • The largest religion in the United States is Christianity, practiced by the majority of the population.
  • After Christianity and no-religion, Judaism is the third-largest religious affiliation in the United States, though this identification is not necessarily indicative of religious beliefs or practices.

• Mate Selection

  • Today, arranged marriage is largely practiced in South Asia (India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka), Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.
  • To some extent, it is also practiced in East Asia.
  • Today, arranged marriage is largely practiced in South Asia (India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka), Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.
  • This is a practice called endogamy, and is common in many class and casted-based societies, like India.
  • This practice occasionally exists to conceal an elopement, but it also occasionally represents sexual violence.

• The Nature of Religion

  • Throughout classical South Asia, the study of law consisted of concepts such as penance through piety and ceremonial and practical traditions.
  • The sociologist Emile Durkheim, in his seminal book The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, defined religion as a "unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things. " By sacred things he meant things "set apart and forbidden — beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them. " Sacred things are not, however, limited to gods or spirits.
  • Some religions place an emphasis on belief while others emphasize practice.
  • Some religions claim to be universal, believing their laws and cosmology to be binding for everyone, while others are intended to be practiced only by a closely-defined or localized group.
  • His Holiness Jigdal Dagchen Sakya leading the empowerment into practice at Tharlam Monastery, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal.