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  2. Statute of limitations - Wikipedia

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    The limitation period generally begins when the plaintiff's cause of action accrues, meaning the date upon which the plaintiff is first able to maintain the cause of action in court, or when the plaintiff first becomes aware of a previous injury (for example, occupational lung diseases such as asbestosis).

  3. Manifest and latent functions and dysfunctions - Wikipedia

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    Manifest functions are the consequences that people see, observe or even expect. It is explicitly stated and understood by the participants in the relevant action. The manifest function of a rain dance, according to Merton in his 1957 Social Theory and Social Structure, is to produce rain, and this outcome is intended and desired by people participating in the ritual.

  4. Sociology of health and illness - Wikipedia

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    The sociology of health and illness, sociology of health and wellness, or health sociology examines the interaction between society and health. As a field of study it is interested in all aspects of life, including contemporary as well as historical influences, that impact and alter health and wellbeing.

  5. Unintended consequences - Wikipedia

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    An erosion gully in Australia caused by rabbits, an unintended consequence of their introduction as game animals. In the social sciences, unintended consequences (sometimes unanticipated consequences or unforeseen consequences, more colloquially called knock-on effects) are outcomes of a purposeful action that are not intended or foreseen.

  6. Personal injury - Wikipedia

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    For example, for the purposes of general liability, a 2001 survey found that a minority of courts included emotional distress within the definition of bodily injury. [ 28 ] [ 29 ] Where a mental injury arises from a physical injury—as with a traumatic brain injury caused by a car accident—auto insurance policies normally cover the injury.

  7. Acquired characteristic - Wikipedia

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    For example: The muscles acquired by a bodybuilder through physical training and diet. The loss of a limb due to an injury. The miniaturization of bonsai plants through cultivation techniques. Acquired characteristics can be minor and temporary like bruises, blisters, or shaving body hair.

  8. Prescription (Scots law) - Wikipedia

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    loss, injury or damage has occurred; the said loss, injury or damage was caused by a person’s act or omission; the identity of that person is known. The amendments also introduce standstill requirements: [31] [32] the prescriptive period has started but not already expired; the period is to extend by a maximum of one year

  9. Social system - Wikipedia

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    In sociology, a social system is the patterned network of relationships constituting a coherent whole that exist between individuals, groups, and institutions. [1] It is the formal structure of role and status that can form in a small, stable group. [1]