Almost three decades ago Bertha Reynolds undertook a study of short-contact interviewing because of her conviction that short-term casework had an important but neglected place in our network of social services.

Intelligence agencies may use heuristics, inductive and deductive reasoning, social network analysis, dynamic network analysis, link analysis, and brainstorming to sort through problems they face.

More recently Twitter, a popular social network service, began driving abbreviation use with 140 character message limits.

An unofficial standard for spoken American English has also developed, as a result of mass media and geographic and social mobility, and broadly describes the English typically heard from network newscasters, commonly referred to as non-regional diction, although local newscasters tend toward more parochial forms of speech.

Bulletin board systems were in many ways a precursor to the modern form of the World Wide Web, social network services and other aspects of the Internet.

Bodmin is also the home of Localfusion ; a community based local business network geared to provide information on Cornish news, events and social groups.

) This can be explained by considering personal relationships as a social network.

The earliest descriptions of a global communications network came long before the World Wide Web entered popular awareness, though not before traditional science-fiction writers such as Arthur C. Clarke and some social commentators such as James Burke began predicting that such networks would eventually form.

As a social experience, individuals can interact, exchange ideas, share information, provide social support, conduct business, direct actions, create artistic media, play games, engage in political discussion, and so on, using this global network.

* Social engineering awareness keeps employees aware of the dangers of social engineering and / or having a policy in place to prevent social engineering can reduce successful breaches of the network and servers.

BlitzMail, the campus e-mail network, plays a tremendous role in social life, as students tend to use it for communication in lieu of cellular phones or instant messaging programs.

Another Alliance member, Unified Deism, was created as a social network that is all-inclusive to various forms of deism.

This site's social network has since migrated to The Center for Reasoned Spirituality, which retains a focus on deism but is also meant to also be inclusive to members who do not necessarily identify with deism.

Freenet assumes that the Darknet ( a subset of the global social network ) is a small-world network, and nodes constantly attempt to swap locations ( using the Metropolis – Hastings algorithm ) in order to minimize their distance to their neighbors.

Fans typically are interested in even minor details of the object ( s ) of their fandom and spend a significant portion of their time and energy involved with their interest, often as a part of a social network with particular practices ( a fandom ); this is what differentiates " fannish " ( fandom-affiliated ) fans from those with only a casual interest.

Graph theory is also widely used in sociology as a way, for example, to measure actors ' prestige or to explore diffusion mechanisms, notably through the use of social network analysis software.

* Hub Culture, a social network that merges virtual and physical places

* Intelligent systems: genetics research support, integrated geospatial and textual information access, automated language translation and social network dynamics.

Phillpott said that Shaffer was " relying on my recollection 100 percent ", and the Defense Department Inspector General's report indicated that Philpott strongly supported the social network analysis techniques used in Able Danger, and might have exaggerated claims of identifying the hijackers.

* Lore ( company ), a social network for learning

He advocated the abolition of private property ( while retaining respect for personal property ) through the " expropriation of the whole of social wealth " by the people themselves, and for the economy to be co-ordinated through a horizontal network of voluntary associations where goods are distributed according to the physical needs of the individual, rather than according to labor.

Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

Outside of the realm of English studies, A Modest Proposal is a relevant piece included in many comparative and global literature and history courses, as well as those of numerous other disciplines in the arts, humanities, and even the social sciences.

A variety of social, political and economic reforms were introduced by the Japanese government, in hope of modernising the country in the Western style, and included the annexation of Hokkaido.

Those involved in social welfare included the accelerated development of schools and community centres, and a modern, fully equipped hospital in Nairobi.

They usually included a degree of social comment, and featured ensemble casts which often included Alec Guinness or Stanley Holloway.

Their efforts included attacking social discrimination by the upper class, authorities, and " commoners " and the use of degrading language against children in public schools.

The hierarchical social strata in Netherlands included prince, noblemen ( some called Ridder, knight ), clergy, patricians ( councilmen and officials ), bürghers ( commoners ), plebeians ( vagabonds ), and peasants.

The members of the League of Young Officers came to power with an agenda, which included a wide variety of social reforms, deal with the failing economy, establish the Central Bank as the unique authorized bank to distribute currency, create a new system of budget and customs.

A Provisional Committee was formed that included people with a wide range of political views, and the Volunteers ' ranks were open to " all able-bodied Irishmen without distinction of creed, politics or social group.

Evangelicals were also concerned with social reform during this period — in England the Clapham Sect included figures such as William Wilberforce who successfully campaigned for the abolition of slavery.

The social burdens caused by war included the huge war debt, made worse by the loss of France's colonial possessions in North America and the growing commercial dominance of Great Britain.

These included resentment of royal absolutism ; resentment by peasants, laborers and the bourgeoisie toward the traditional seigneurial privileges possessed by the nobility ; resentment of the Church's influence over public policy and institutions ; aspirations for freedom of religion ; resentment of aristocratic bishops by the poorer rural clergy ; aspirations for social, political and economic equality, and ( especially as the Revolution progressed ) republicanism ; hatred of Queen Marie-Antoinette, who was falsely accused of being a spendthrift and an Austrian spy ; and anger toward the King for firing finance minister Jacques Necker, among others, who were popularly seen as representatives of the people.

Since at least the 1960s, when Marc Bloch's Feudal Society ( 1939 ) was first translated into English in 1961, many medieval historians have included a broader social aspect that includes not only the nobility but all three estates of the realm, adding the peasantry bonds of manorialism and the estates of the Church ; this is sometimes referred to as " feudal society " since it encompasses all members of society into the feudal system.

Reasons included the need to regulate businesses and industries that span state borders, attempts to secure civil rights, and the provision of social services.

A group of " warrior " horse-nomads would conquer and / or be joined by other warrior groups throughout western Eurasia, and in turn extracted tribute over a territory that included other social and ethnic groups, including sedentary agricultural peoples.

In Canada they included soldier and governor of Quebec James Murray, Prime Minister John A. MacDonald and politician and social reformer Tommy Douglas.

The UDHR included both economic, social and cultural rights and civil and political rights because it was based on the principle that the different rights could only successfully exist in combination:

The " stable " core of French society, town guildspeople and village labourers, included cases of staggering social and geographic continuity, but even this core required regular renewal.

By 2000 the social structure included a politically active working class, a primarily clerical middle class, and an upper bracket consisting of managers, entrepreneurs, and professionals.

Causes of change included the growth of a mass culture, international standards, social mobility, and acceptance of democracy and equality as typified by the welfare state.

These laws are those for areas not covered by the Protocol 3 opt-out that the UK included for the Isle of Man in its accession treaty – the areas excluded being free movement of persons, services and capital, and taxation and social policy harmonisation.

This opposition included passing an amendment that required a vote on the social chapter aspects of the treaty before it could be ratified.

* 1906 – Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet ( which included amongst its members H. H. Asquith, David Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill ) embarks on sweeping social reforms after a Liberal landslide in the British general election.

The historian William J. Cooper has stated that Davis believed in southern social order that included " a democratic white polity based firmly on dominance of a controlled and excluded black caste.