The technicians who maintain the Stockton section of the road have been persuaded by a radical social theory, Functionalism, that their role in maintaining the nation's transport infrastructure is more important than that of any other workers and that they should therefore be in control.

Among the other theories of International Relations, State cartel theory has most in common with Functionalism in international relations.

Functionalism and processualism are two schools of archaeological thought which have made a great contribution to prehistoric archaeology.

In the Functionalism versus intentionalism debate, Kershaw has argued for a synthesis of the two schools, though Kershaw leans towards the functionalist school.

There is a debate between two competing schools of sociological thought, Structuralism and Functionalism.

It was, however, not until the last half of the 20th century that Danish architects entered the world scene with their highly successful Functionalism.

Functionalism, in regard to religious studies, is the analysis of religions and their various communities of adherents using the functions of particular religious phenomena to interpret the structure of religious communities and their beliefs.

The group at Columbia, led by James McKeen Cattell, Edward L. Thorndike, and Robert S. Woodworth, was often regarded as a second ( after Chicago ) " school " of American Functionalism ( see, e. g., Heidbredder, 1933 ), although they never used that term themselves, because their research focused on the applied areas of mental testing, learning, and education.

" Lessons on Functionalism and Automata ".

* “ Functionalism and Anomalous Monism ”, in Ernest LePore and Brian McLaughlin, eds., Actions and Events: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson ( Blackwell, Oxford, 1985 ), pp. 387 – 98

Functionalism concerns " the effort to impute, as rigorously as possible, to each feature, custom, or practice, its effect on the functioning of a supposedly stable, cohesive system ," The chief form of social conflict that Durkheim addressed was crime.

Functionalism, which originally arose in direct opposition to structuralism, opposed introspection because of its narrow focus on the elements of consciousness.

" Functionalism was further illustrated by Janco's ideas on furniture design, where he favored " small heights ", " simple aesthetics ", as well as " a maximum of comfort " which would " pay no tribute to richness ".

Functionalism, in architecture, is the principle that architects should design a building based on the purpose of that building.

The Architecture of Hong Kong features great emphasis on Contemporary architecture, specially Modernism, Postmodernism, Functionalism, etc.

The term Danish Functionalism is sometimes used to describe the Danish branch of functionalistic architecture which had its heyday in the 1960s.

* Functionalism, or structural functionalism, has many principals which define this theory.

Functionalism addresses society as a whole in terms of the function of its constituent elements ; namely norms, customs, traditions, and institutions.

Functionalism had been the dominant paradigm but, in the 1960s, there was a shift towards Social Control Theories, conflict criminology, and labeling theories that tried to explain the emerging and more radical social environment.

He is remembered for his contribution to architectural Functionalism as well as for the worldwide success he enjoyed with simple but effective chair designs.

Almost immediately, he co-authored an article with his Chicago colleague Addison W. Moore that simultaneously settled a nasty dispute between Cornell psychologist Edward Bradford Titchener and Princeton psychologist James Mark Baldwin as well as laying the foundations for the school of Functionalism.

* ( 1988 ) " Functionalism and Broad Content ", Mind, XCVII, 387, pp. 381-400 ( with P. Pettit ).

Functionalism is a theory of international relations that arose principally from the experience of European integration.

Titchener responded in Philosophical Review ( 1898, 1899 ) by distinguishing his austere " structural " approach to psychology from what he termed the Chicago group's more applied " functional " approach, and thus began the first major theoretical rift in American psychology between Structuralism and Functionalism.

Functionalism ( or structuralism ) versus intentionalism is a historiographical debate about the origins of the Holocaust as well as most aspects of the Third Reich, such as foreign policy.

A member of CIAM and then in 1954 a co-founder of " Team 10 ", Van Eyck lectured throughout Europe and northern America propounding the need to reject Functionalism and attacking the lack of originality in most post-war Modernism.

Structural functionalism, or simply Functionalism, is a framework for building theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability.

Functionalism also has an anthropological basis in the work of theorists such as Marcel Mauss, Bronisław Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown.

Functionalism grew from the work of Max Weber and Émile Durkheim.

) Functionalism as a sociological credo is, therefore, not a direct consequence of observations, but rather an indirect consequence of philosophical inference and judgment.

* Functionalism c. 1900-1930s Europe & USA

Functionalism is different from structural or realist arguments in that while both look to broader, structural causes, realists ( and structuralists more broadly ) say that the structure gives incentives to agents, while functionalists attribute causal power to the system itself, bypassing agents entirely.

Functionalism is a theory of the mind in contemporary philosophy, developed largely as an alternative to both the identity theory of mind and behaviourism.

Functionalism is a theoretical level between the physical implementation and behavioral output.

* Elster, J., ( 1990 ), “ Merton's Functionalism and the Unintended Consequences of Action ”, in Clark, J., Modgil, C. & Modgil, S., ( eds ) Robert Merton: Consensus and Controversy, Falmer Press, London, pp. 129 – 35

* Gingrich, P., ( 1999 ) “ Functionalism and Parsons ” in Sociology 250 Subject Notes, University of Regina, accessed, 24 / 5 / 06, uregina. ca

* Holmwood, J., ( 2005 ) “ Functionalism and its Critics ” in Harrington, A., ( ed ) Modern Social Theory: an introduction, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 87 – 109

One of these days, I'm going to organize a gigantic exhibition that will span everything that's being painted these days, from extreme abstract expressionism to extreme photorealism, and then you'll be able to see at a glance how much artists have in common with each other.

In abstract painting during the 1950s and 1960s several new directions like hard-edge painting and other forms of geometric abstraction began to appear in artist studios and in radical avant-garde circles as a reaction against the subjectivism of abstract expressionism.

The continuation of abstract expressionism, color field painting, lyrical abstraction, geometric abstraction, minimalism, abstract illusionism, process art, pop art, postminimalism, and other late 20th-century modernist movements in both painting and sculpture continue through the first decade of the 21st century and constitute radical new directions in those mediums.

His collection of American art was strong in Abstract expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Neo-Dada, Color Field, Lyrical Abstraction, and Neo-Expressionism and he often donated important works from his collection to institutions like MoMA, and other important private museums and University collections like the Norton Simon Museum, the Sheldon Museum of Art and the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University among many others.

The play displays an uneasy mix of expressionism and realism, which is also characteristic of several other O ' Neill plays, including The Hairy Ape.

In abstract painting during the 1950s and 1960s several new directions like Hard-edge painting and other forms of Geometric abstraction like the work of Frank Stella popped up, as a reaction against the subjectivism of Abstract expressionism began to appear in artist studios and in radical avant-garde circles.

Painters, sculptors and printmakers associated with Abstract expressionism, Action painting, Fluxus, Color field painting, Hard-edge painting, Pop art, Minimal Art, Lyrical Abstraction, and other movements associated with New York City.

Founding members, Luis Vargas Rosas and Camilo Mori among others, exihibt in the Salon d ' Automne of 1920 in Paris where they meet Juan Gris, Pablo Picasso and other artists experimenting in the new trends of the time like cubism and expressionism.

However, his importance for Slovene and European literature probably lies in his symbolist sketches and other short stories, which, in their mixture of symbolism, modernism and even expressionism, convey a high degree of originality.

This inter-disciplinary relationship is perhaps the most important relationship in musical expressionism, other than that between the members of the Second Viennese School.