Sub Discipline

FSP is The Best Woman scientist in her narrow sub-discipline of Science. ❋ Maxine (2009)

While I discount Fat Studies as a sub-discipline, that trademarked term oozes a paranoid sense of contagion that should offend people of any size. ❋ Tenured Radical (2009)

The sub-discipline "paleontologist" includes paleontology; the sub-discipline "preparation" includes paleontology and preparation and conservation. ❋ ReBecca Foster (2009)

By far and away, the main reason males considered leaving was an uncertain job market — a distant second was a tie between difficult classes and choosing the wrong sub-discipline. ❋ Peggy (2007)

These have the nice features of Bryan being right while Dave has pretty much the entire sub-discipline of health economics on his side. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When environmental ethics emerged as a new sub-discipline of philosophy in the early 1970s, it did so by posing a challenge to traditional anthropocentrism. ❋ Brennan, Andrew (2008)

The call for a “basic change of values” in connection to the environment (a call that could be interpreted in terms of either instrumental or intrinsic values) reflected a need for the development of environmental ethics as a new sub-discipline of philosophy. ❋ Brennan, Andrew (2008)

A sub-discipline of my field is trying to create motivation in drug addicts. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Lee and Ryan compete in a little-known cyclocross sub-discipline, synchronized barrier-running. ❋ Isaac (2008)

The study of collective behavior and social movements has been a central sub-discipline of sociology since the 1970s. ❋ Daniel Little (2008)

The last fifteen years, since the discovery of the hormone leptin in 1994, has seen obesity research become a sub-discipline of molecular biology. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The goal is to treat the philosophy of social science, not simply as a sub-discipline of philosophy, but as an active and guiding area of intellectual work intimately bound up in the development of the social sciences. ❋ Daniel Little (2008)

The field of ecological economics is a sub-discipline of the institutional school. ❋ Unknown (2007)

[I should add that without the blog, Matthew, who is a leading scholar in my sub-discipline, might not have ever had a reason to visit my professional website except that he wondered, "Who is this Profesora Abstraida???"] ❋ Unknown (2005)