According to Merton's perception of " functionalism ", all standardized social and cultural beliefs and practices are functional for both society as a whole as well as individuals in society.

In Merton's writing on dysfunctions, he highlighted problems that tend to keep social systems from meeting all of their functional requirements.

Merton's structural-functional idea of deviance ( sociology ) | deviance and anomie.

Merton's was a kind of " sociology of scientists ," which left the cognitive content of science out of sociological account ; SSK by contrast aimed at providing sociological explanations of scientific ideas themselves.

Just as, in Merton's example, the belief that a bank is insolvent may help create the fact, so too on the positive side, confidence in the bank's prospects may help brighten them.

Merton's women have done better in recent years, gaining the headship in Torpids in 2003 and rowing over to defend the title in 2004.

( Martin Clunes could be considered the fourth person to have done all three roles, after sitting in Merton's usual seat in series 11, episode 4, but with his teammate being Men Behaving Badly co-star Neil Morrissey, the duo were given equal billing, with no captain.

Although details are sketchy — they appear to have been excised from a franker first draft of the autobiography by the Trappist censors — most of Merton's biographers agree that he fathered a child with one of the women he encountered at Cambridge and there was some kind of legal action pending that was settled discreetly by Bennett.

By this time Bennett had had enough and, in a meeting in April, Merton and his guardian appear to have struck a deal: Merton would return to the States and Bennett would not tell Merton's grandparents about his indiscretions.

Many of Merton's early reviewers have made explicit comparisons.

Merton's work on the " role model " first appeared in a study on the socialization of medical students at Columbia.

Edward Rice, a close friend of Merton's since their college days together at Columbia, suggests a different story behind the censorship issues.

The substance of Merton's claim to the title of oldest College is that Merton was the first college to be provided with " statutes ", a constitution governing the College set out at its founding.

Merton's years at Columbia matured him, and it is here that he discovered Catholicism in a real sense.

Merton's influence has grown since his death and he is widely recognized as an important 20th-century Catholic mystic and thinker.

passage is from R. K. Merton's " A Life of Learning ", which is reprinted in R. K. Merton, 1996.

Merton's work is often compared to that of Talcott Parsons.

This technique is widely used in Financial Mathematics to determine optimal investment strategies in the market ( see for example Merton's portfolio problem ).

# Merton's Model ( 1973 ) models the short rate as: where is a one-dimensional Brownian motion under the spot martingale measure.

It is often claimed to be the oldest quadrangle in Oxford, but Merton's own Front Quad was certainly enclosed earlier and the same form was probably developed independently elsewhere.

The current focus of New Directions is threefold: discovering and acquiring many new contemporary international writers and introducing them to the US ( among these are: W. G. Sebald, Roberto Bolaño, Javier Marías, César Aira, Inger Christensen, László Krasznahorkai, and Yoko Tawada ); maintaining a tradition of publishing new and experimental American poetry and prose ( recent poets include the National Book Award-winner for poetry Nathaniel Mackey, Forrest Gander, Eliot Weinberger, Michael Palmer, Susan Howe, Thalia Field, Peter Cole, and Will Alexander ); and reissuing New Directions ' classic titles in new editions with introductions by highly praised writers and artists, including: Jonathan Lethem ( Nathaniel West's Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust ), William Gibson ( Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths ), Susan Sontag ( Leonid Tsypkin's Summer in Baden-Baden ), Edwidge Danticat ( René Philoctète's Massacre River ), Sue Monk Kidd ( Thomas Merton's New Seeds of Contemplation ), John Ashbery ( Alvin Levin's Love is Like Park Avenue ), Devendra Banhart ( Kenneth Patchen's We Meet ), Will Self ( Henry Miller's The Colossus of Maroussi ), and Jeanette Winterson ( Djuna Barnes's Nightwood ).

* Nathalie Vansier as Becky Dingle is Merton's younger sister.

In Merton's journals, the first entry mentioning the project is dated March 1, 1946, but many scholars suspect he started writing it earlier than that because the draft ( more than 600 pages ) reached Naomi Burton Stone by October 21, 1946.

Unlike Merton's strain theory, Cohen holds the view that the reaction to status frustration is a collective response rather than an individual one.

There is a gap of nearly twenty years between Merton's scientific papers of 1928 and 1947.

Merton's instinctive connoisseurship is indicated by the distinction of so many of his acquisitions.

This teaching brought him in contact with new works in industrial sociology and was exposed to works of functional anthropologists.

The idea to study society as a system can be traced back to the origin of sociology when the emergent idea of functional differentiation has been applied for the first time to society by Auguste Comte.

Talcott Parsons, a major figure in sociology, who was the main originator of action theory in the early 20th century, based his sociological theory of action system is build up around a general theory of society, which is codified within a cybernetic model featuring four functional imperatives: adaptation, goal-attainment, integration, and pattern maintenance.

* Browser games can be applet-based, though some may develop into fully functional applications that require installation.

A broad division may be drawn between " imperative " and " functional " definition styles.

The angle may vary because of steric strain introduced by nonbonded interactions created by functional groups attached to the carbons of the double bond.

This so-called junk DNA may, however, contain unrecognized functional elements.

Computer programs may be categorized along functional lines: system software and application software.

Thus, the molecular formula of ethanol may be written in a paper in conformational, three-dimensional, full two-dimensional ( indicating every bond with no three-dimensional directions ), compressed two-dimensional ( CH < sub > 3 </ sub >– CH < sub > 2 </ sub >– OH ), separating the functional group from another part of the molecule ( C < sub > 2 </ sub > H < sub > 5 </ sub > OH ), or by its atomic constituents ( C < sub > 2 </ sub > H < sub > 6 </ sub > O ), according to what is discussed.

This is typically done by specific instructions / operations through special database user interfaces and tools, and thus may be viewed as secondary functional requirements ( which are not less important than the primary ).

The reasons are primarily economical ( different DBMSs may have different total costs of ownership-TCO ), functional, and operational ( different DBMSs may have different capabilities ).

Autocorrelation may be the result of misspecification such as choosing the wrong functional form.

The word moiety () is often used synonymously with " functional group ," but, according to the IUPAC definition, a moiety is a part of a molecule that may include either whole functional groups or parts of functional groups as substructures.

For example, an ester ( RCOOR ') has an ester functional group ( COOR ) and is composed of an alkoxy moiety (- OR ') and an acyl moiety ( RCO -), or, equivalently, it may be divided into carboxylate ( RCOO -) and alkyl (- R ') moieties.

Each moiety may contain additional functional groups -- for example, methyl para-hydroxybenzoate contains a phenol functional group within the acyl moiety.

If there is another functional group at a carbon, it may be named with the Greek letter, e. g., the gamma-amine in gamma-aminobutanoic acid is on the third carbon of the carbon chain attached to the carboxylic acid group.

It may be necessary to create a functional group in the molecule to make it react.

Depending on the particular formalism adopted for the calculus, it may be seen as a simple application of a " functional substitution " rule of inference, as in Gödel's paper, or it may be proved by considering the formal proof of, replacing in it all occurrences of Q by some other formula with the same free variables, and noting that all logical axioms in the formal proof remain logical axioms after the substitution, and all rules of inference still apply in the same way.

Aside from serving their functional purposes, gas masks are also used as emblems in industrial music, by graffiti taggers because the mask protects them from the graffiti canister's toxic fumes, and by Urban Explorers venturing into environments where hazardous materials, such as asbestos, may be present.

The carbon chain, typically between four and 24 carbons long, may be saturated or unsaturated, and may be attached to functional groups containing oxygen, halogens, nitrogen, and sulfur.

The lambda calculus may be seen as an idealised functional programming language, like Haskell or Standard ML.