The renowned sociologist Manuel Castells, in his trilogy on The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture ( the first volume of which, The Rise of the Network Society, appeared in 1996 ), reinterpreted the processes by which capitalism invests in certain regions of the globe, while divesting from others, using the new paradigm of " informational networks ".

* Euthanasia considered as device paradigm Pieter Tijmes, Society for Philosophy and Technology, Vol 3 No 1, Fall 1997.

The New Testament offered to the public today is the first result of the work of a joint committee made up of representatives of the Church of England, Church of Scotland, Methodist Church, Congregational Union, Baptist Union, Presbyterian Church of England, Churches in Wales, Churches in Ireland, Society of Friends, British and Foreign Bible Society and National Society of Scotland.

He is a member both of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Philosophical Society ; ;

The Sane Society is an ambitious work.

It is a simple matter, for one so disposed, to take a work like The Sane Society and shred it into odds and ends.

The present edition of crystal data ( Af ), published in 1954 as Memoir 60 of the Geological Society of America, is now out of print.

Similarly, the American Cancer Society ( ACS ), the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation, and the BBB have each stated lately that medical quackery is at a new high.

Nor is it an accident that baseball, growing into the national game in the last 75 years, has become a microcosm of American life, that learned societies such as the American Folklore Society and the American Historical Association were founded in the 1880s, or that courses in American literature, American civilization, American anything have swept our school and college curricula.

Published annually by William Hord Richardson, the 1962 edition, subtitled Society Register of Southern California, is scheduled to arrive with Monday morning's postman.

The ballet work is on the nose, especially in the opening number by `` The New Ashmolean Marching Society and Students' Conservatory Band '', along with a fiery and sultry Brazilian fantasia later.

This season the orchestra has already taken a step toward the suburbs in that it is giving six subscription concerts for the Orchestral Society of Westchester in the County Center in White Plains.

* 1845 – The Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

* 1858 – The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.

The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.

Alarums and Excursions ( A & E ) is an amateur press association started in June 1975 by Lee Gold ( at the request of Bruce Pelz, who felt that discussion of Dungeons & Dragons was taking up too much space in Apa-L, the APA of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society ).

Sir Andrew John Wiles, KBE, FRS ( born 11 April 1953 ) is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford University, specializing in number theory.

Leyton is the president of the International Society for Mathematical and Computational Aesthetics and the

A memorial pipe organ in Convovation Hall, Acadia University is dedicated to the members of Acadia University killed during the First World War A book of remembrance in Manning Chapel, Acadia University was unveiled on 1 March 1998 through the efforts of the Wolfville Historical Society

* 1971 – The Society for American Baseball Research is founded in Cooperstown, New York.

One early example is the founding in 1877 of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in Britain to protect the built heritage, this society continues to be active today.

The National Democratic Revolution ( NDR ) is described as a process through which the National Democratic Society ( NDS ) is achieved ; a society in which people are intellectually, socially, economically and politically empowered.

An annual service of remembrance is held here around Phillip's birthdate by the Britain – Australia Society to commemorate his life.

* 1866 – The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ( ASPCA ) is founded in New York City by Henry Bergh.

This lack of a defined membership has led some historians to criticise a Lunar Society " legend ", leading people to " confuse it and its efforts with the general growth of intellectual and economic activities in the provinces of eighteenth century Britain ".

The Public Relations Society of America ( PRSA ) defined public relations in 1982 as: " Public relations helps an organization and its publics adapt mutually to each other.

The U. S. Court of Appeals reversed the Tax Court's ruling, defined the Society as a religious organization, and granted its tax exemption.

Because it does not take a political position regarding devolution to a strictly defined territory, the Wessex Society can afford to assume a relaxed position about where exactly the boundaries of cultural Wessex lie.

A 2004 statement by the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society ( for children ) uses slightly different cutoffs, where mild DKA is defined by pH 7. 20 – 7. 30 ( bicarbonate 10 – 15 mmol / l ), moderate DKA by pH 7. 1 – 7. 2 ( bicarbonate 5 – 10 ) and severe DKA by pH < 7. 1 ( bicarbonate below 5 ).

During 2006 the Transport Planning Society defined the key purpose of transport planning as

Microwave frequency bands, as defined by the Radio Society of Great Britain ( RSGB ), are shown in the table below:

This “ North Society ” defined a boundary line that is identical to the border today between North Stonington and Stonington, although disagreements about the establishment of this line, and the location of the northern meeting house lasted until 1723 and required the colonial assembly ’ s intervention several times.

The left-wing German historian Hans-Ulrich Wehler has defined social imperialism as " the diversions outwards of internal tensions and forces of change in order to preserve the social and political status quo ", and as a " defensive ideology " to counter the " disruptive effects of industrialization on the social and economic structure of Germany " In Wehler's opinion, social imperialism was a device that allowed the German government to distract public attention from domestic problems and preserve the existing social and political order Wehler argued the dominant elites used social imperialism as the glue to hold together a fractured society and to maintain popular support for the social status quo Wehler argued German colonial policy in the 1880s was the first example of social imperialism in action, and was followed up by the " Tirpitz plan " for expanding the German Navy starting in 1897 In this point of view, groups such as the Colonial Society and the Navy League are seen as instruments for the government to mobilize public support.

SMPTE timecode is a set of cooperating standards to label individual frames of video or film with a time code defined by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers in the SMPTE 12M specification.

Regarding the concept of race as defined – in a comparatively more limited manner – by Anthropology, Sociology, and other disciplines, Blavatsky did not encourage superiority by any person or group, promoting the idea of the common origin and destiny of all humanity, and establishing the principle of universal brotherhood as the First Object of the Theosophical Society.

In his work ' The Structure and Function of Communication in Society ' ( 1948 ) he defined the communication process as Who ( says ) What ( to ) Whom ( in ) What Channel ( with ) What Effect.

It is defined ( technically ) as a " Cape " and a " Locale " by the US Geological Society.

The term white-collar crime was coined in 1939 by Edwin Sutherland, who defined it as a " crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation " in a speech entitled " The White Collar Criminal " delivered to the American Sociological Society.

A new Charter in 1845 defined the Society as an independent, private body servicing the affairs of the profession like other professional, literary and scientific bodies.

The selection process is defined in the World Science Fiction Society Constitution as instant-runoff voting with five nominees, except in the case of a tie.

It broke away from the existing Ethnological Society of London, founded in 1843, and defined itself in opposition to the older society.

The selection process is defined in the World Science Fiction Society Constitution as instant-runoff voting with five nominees, except in the case of a tie.

The selection process is defined in the World Science Fiction Society Constitution as instant-runoff voting with five nominees, except in the case of a tie.

The selection process is defined in the World Science Fiction Society Constitution as instant-runoff voting with five nominees, except in the case of a tie.

The selection process is defined in the World Science Fiction Society Constitution as instant-runoff voting with five nominees, except in the case of a tie.

The rite of conferral continues in societies that use the 1962 form of the Roman Rite, such as the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, or earlier forms, such as the Society of St. Pius V. Some believe that attainment of the position of Acolyte in post-Council practices implies ordination to the minor orders which used to be below it, such as Exorcist and Porter, although this has not been officially defined ( although Canon Law section 1009 does specifically state that the only " orders are the episcopate, the priesthood and the diaconate ").

In 1916, the Society of Automobile Engineers defined a roadster as: " an open car seating two or three.

Wire types for North American wiring practices are defined by standards issued by Underwriters Laboratories, the Canadian Standards Association, the American Society for Testing and Materials, the National Electrical Manufacturers Association and the Insulated Cable Engineers Association.