This tool allows users to define situations and specify which permissions are accepted or denied in these situations.
As a professor of sociology, I teach my students the Thomas theorem: when we define situations as real, they become real in their consequences.
If we want to understand and explain the actions of today's Tea Partiers, we would do well to remember the core sociological maxim: "If people define situations as real, they are real in their consequences".
Nevertheless, it is possible to define situations in which embolisation is an effective therapy.
Nevertheless, "if men [sic] define situations as real, they are real in their consequences" [ 37].
This study focuses on perceived HRM, following the Thomas Theorem: if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences [ 15].
Midwifes can wield considerable power in the delivery room because they can construct and define situations there as normal or not.
In the discourse of medicine futility is a term used to define situations in which treatment provides no, or little, chance of survival with a meaningful quality of life [ 29].
"There's usually a defining play, a defining situation in the game that determines the outcome.
Bats will easily be able to do the same, at least in a spatially defined situation with the caller hanging stationary in a roost or at a foraging perch.
