Following an interpretation of power similar to that of Machiavelli, Foucault defines power as immaterial, as a " certain type of relation between individuals " that has to do with complex strategic social positions that relate to the subject's ability to control its environment and influence those around itself.

It defines the specifications, plans, parameters, costs, activities, processes and how and what to do within legal, political, social, environmental, safety and economic constraints in achieving that objective.

John Stuart Mill ( 1844 ) defines the subject in a social context as:

Descriptive ethics is a value-free approach to ethics, which defines it as a social science ( specifically sociology ) rather than a humanity.

Wilson defines sociobiology as: “ The extension of population biology and evolutionary theory to social organization ”

Marxist literature typically defines state capitalism as a social system combining capitalism — the wage system of producing and appropriating surplus value — with ownership or control by a state.

In the humanities and in the social sciences, the term discourse describes a formal way of thinking that can be expressed through language, a social boundary that defines what can be said about a specific topic ; as Judith Butler said, “ the limits of acceptable speech ”, the limits of possible truth.

Wheeler, in his 2004 book, defines sustainable urban development as " development that improves the long-term social and ecological health of cities and towns.

All social sciences have explicit ontology issues because they do not have hard falsification criteria like most models in physical sciences-indeed the lack of such widely accepted hard falsification criteria is what defines a social or soft science.

Florida's digital media industry association, Digital Media Alliance Florida, defines digital media as " the creative convergence of digital arts, science, technology and business for human expression, communication, social interaction and education ".

In the U. S., the OMB defines the concept of race as outlined for the US Census as not " scientific or anthropological " and takes into account " social and cultural characteristics as well as ancestry ", using " appropriate scientific methodologies " that are not " primarily biological or genetic in reference.

Meta-geopolitics defines seven key dimensions of state power that include social and health issues, domestic politics, economics, environment, science and human potential, military and security issues, and international diplomacy.

In the opening sequence of Seven Beauties, spoken over World War II archival footage showing the destruction of cities and men, Wertmüller defines the object of her critique — a " particular petty bourgeois social type.

Jan Van Dijk ( 2006 ) defines the network society as a " social formation with an infrastructure of social and media networks enabling its prime mode of organization at all levels ( individual, group / organizational and societal ).

In social contract theory, persons in the state of nature agree to the provisions of a contract that defines the basic rights and duties of citizens in a civil society.

Honour is a code of behaviour that defines the duties of an individual within a social group.

John Rawls in his Theory of Justice defines a conscientious objector as an individual prepared to undertake, in public ( and often despite widespread condemnation ), an action of civil disobedience to a legal rule justifying it ( also in public ) by reference to contrary foundational social virtues ( such as justice as liberty or fairness ) and the principles of morality and law derived from them.

Bad faith ( or " self-deception ") can be understood as the guise of existing as a character, individual, or person who defines himself through the social categorization of his formal identity.

Clay Shirky defines social software as “ software that supports group interaction ”.

He defines " the politicide of the Palestinian people, a gradual but systematic attempt to cause their annihilation as an independent political and social entity.

Merton is also interested in the persistence of societies and defines functions that make for the adaptation of a given social system.

Neoclassical theory defines profit as what is left of revenue after all costs have been subtracted, including normal interest on capital plus the normal excess over it required to cover risk, and normal salary for managerial activity.

The specification defines flags which show whether the message has been read, deleted and so on: the initial ( capital ) letter of Passed, Replied, Seen, Trashed, Draft, and Flagged.

The concept of capital maintenance is concerned with how an entity defines the capital that it seeks to maintain.

A himá ( ) " inviolate zone " refers to an area set aside for the conservation of natural capital, typically fields, wildlife and forests-contrast ḥaram, which defines an area protected for more immediate human purposes.

* As a component of the new value product, which Marx himself defines as equal to the sum of labor costs in respect of capitalistically productive labor ( variable capital ) and surplus-value.

The law not only defines the City's territory but also provided that the capital of Basilan shall be the Municipality of Isabela.

The remainder of the Oregon Constitution outlines the divisions of power within the state government, lists the times of elections, and defines the state boundaries and the capital as Salem.

One often defines the argument of some complex number to be between-π ( exclusive ) and π ( inclusive ), so we take this to be the principal value of the argument, and we write the argument function on this branch Arg z ( with the leading capital A ).

In the following chapter Marx defines fixed capital and circulating capital.

Marx defines " capital " as money and " capitalist production " as the use of money to denominate wealth ; these labels refer to John Stuart Mill's definition of value in a market economy as being the going price for a good or service.

The United States system defines a capital asset by exclusion.

* The ABC Highway, roughly defines the boundary of metropolitan capital city Bridgetown.

3 ( Penguin ed., p. 136 ) Marx defines the rate of valorisation as S / C where " S " is the surplus value produced and " C " is the total capital invested to produce it.

Spelled with a capital O, " Oberst " is a noun and defines the military rank of colonel or group captain.

In his manuscript, Marx frequently defines a newly produced output of commodities as being equal to a newly formed " commodity capital K " where

Another way of saying this is that capital accumulation defines economic rationality in capitalist production.

Section 101 defines Jackson, Mississippi as the state capital and states that it may not be moved absent voter approval.

He defines capital as “ accumulated labour ”.

Dennis Organ is often thought of as the father of OCB research and defines OCBs as " individual behavior that is discretionary, not directly or explicitly recognized by the formal reward system, and that in the aggregate promotes the effective functioning of the organization.

Dictionary. com's 21st Century Lexicon defines civil society as 1 ) the aggregate of non-governmental organizations and institutions that manifest interests and will of citizens or 2 ) individuals and organizations in a society which are independent of the government.

* labour time necessary for the production of a given amount of a commodity-this quantity defines the aggregate value of the output, arising from the nature of a commodity as a bearer of exchange-value ;

Each defines a specific aggregate data type and provides an API for reading, writing, and organizing the data and metadata.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency defines fire clay very generally as a " mineral aggregate composed of hydrous silicates of aluminium ( Al < sub > 2 </ sub > O < sub > 3 </ sub >. 2SiO < sub > 2 </ sub >. 2H < sub > 2 </ sub > O ) with or without free silica.

Organ ( 1988 ) defines OCB as “ individual behavior that is discretionary, not directly or explicitly recognized by the formal reward system, and that in the aggregate promotes the effective functioning of the organization ” ( p. 4 ).

He defines a faction as " a number of citizens, whether amounting to a minority or majority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community ".