Street Names through Sociological Lenses. Part I: Functionalism and Conflict Theory

Modern scleral lenses part I: clinical features.

PURPOSE To evaluate the indications for modern scleral lenses and their clinical performance in patients who were fitted with scleral lenses at the authors' practices. METHODS In this cross-sectional survey, all the necessary data were obtained at the first follow-up visit during the 5-month study period. There were four types of scleral lenses: spherical, front-surface toric, back-surface to...

Sociological Theory and Rational

Rational choice or action theory may be understood as one possible interpretation of Weber's program, though it must be said a rather special one in that it invites us to adopt the least complex conception of social action that we can analytically get away with in arriving at a "causal explanation of its course and effects." It thus departs from many post-Weberian (and for that matter pre-Weber...

Part I: Concept and Theory

Valuation Theory. Part I

In the article we introduce a valuation function over a field [1]. Ring of non negative elements and its ideal of positive elements have been also defined. The notation and terminology used here have been introduced in the following We use the following convention: x, y, z, s are extended real numbers, i is an integer, and n, m are natural numbers. The following propositions are true: (1) If x ...

Functionalism and the Metalanguage - Theory Confusion

It is often said that many functional linguists lack a ‘theory’. Within formal linguistics, it is common to talk of different ‘theories’, such as Government-Binding Theory or Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. When formal linguists look at the work of functional linguists like Givón (1984, 1990, 1995), they do not see a ‘theory’ in the sense of formal theories like Government-Binding Theory,...