Sentence examples for sociological definition from inspiring English sources

The court conceded Teitiota was a refugee under a "sociological definition", but not the legal definition.

Define it for us. A. The sociological definition of a generation is a 30-year swath of individuals living contemporaneously.

For such reasons, the sociological definition regards alcoholism as merely one symptom of social deviance and believes its diagnosis often lies in the eyes and value system of the beholder.

Later, in what has become known as the 'letters on illness', Comte likewise proposes a sociological definition of the brain, as the organ through which dead people act on living ones.

Quoting a classic work by Louis Wirth we assume here a "sociological definition of the city" (Wirth 1938: 3) that is considered as a "relatively large, dense, and permanent settlement of heterogeneous individuals" (1938: 8).

To avoid confusion with sociological definitions of communities, here we refer to the subnetworks found by this algorithm simply as 'clusters.' These clusters represent one or more social units, i.e. sets of individuals that have more ties to one another than to those outside of the set (Table 1).

First-order tags are in reference to the explicit, denotative meanings of words and are further broken into objects (nouns) that are sociological in definition, processes (verbs) reflecting psychological activities, and qualifiers.

In this chapter we will describe the existing features of the following two categories: the low-level category used to determine the spatial properties of each person in a scene (person position and head/body orientation), and the high-level category that agglomerates or uses the low-level features to implement sociological and biological definitions (frustum of visual attention).

There are many ideas and concepts of the "middle class", but no final, widely recognized definition in a sociological sense.

This chapter describes the most common features and definitions from the sociological science used to detect and track groups of people that are interacting.

This led to strong objections from the music industry that such a definition failed to appreciate the clear sociological difference between pop ("instant singles-based music aimed at teenagers") and rock ("album-based music for adults").