Yet socially, the characterisation rings true.
The Canopus in Argos series in general falls under the banner of soft science fiction, or "space fiction" as Lessing calls it, due to its focus on characterisation and social and cultural issues, and the de-emphasis of science and technology.
However, the detection and characterisation of social problems may lead to an improvement in the care of cancer patients and result in enhanced patient well-being.
For example, the use of community detection and characterisation mechanisms via social networks analysis might be used to understand if social debt can somehow be measured automatically.
A comedy that was so convincing because of its characterisation in a social and historical context would become a fantasy.
The characterisation of voter constituencies as social segments (Worcester Woman, White Van Man) was a conscious evocation of Lunchpail Democrats and Soccer Moms.
Brian Moylan Back when Sky aired Battlestar Galactica, they ran an advert comparing it to other golden-age TV series: it had, they claimed, the political smarts of The West Wing, the raw adrenaline of 24, the characterisation of The Sopranos and the social commentary of The Wire.
One of the great things about The Simpsons, apart from the expertly crafted jokes, the sharp social commentary, the puncturing of celebrity ostentation, and the superb characterisation, is the fact that no one ever grows up.
In another, he writes: "The spectacle is not a collection of images; rather, it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images," a characterisation that is just as easy to envision as the triumphant motto of Facebook or YouTube as a screed against the experience of "generalised separation" that Debord deems the only form of social unity available in such a "relationship".
Green's characterisation of this Christian community is transformed into the social theory outlined below.
