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  2. Raffaele Garofalo - Wikipedia

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    He attempted to formulate a sociological definition of crime that would designate those acts which can be repressed by punishment. These constituted "Natural Crime" and were considered offenses violating the two basic altruistic sentiments common to all people, namely, probity and piety. Crime is an immoral act that is injurious to society.

  3. Polysystem theory - Wikipedia

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    The polysystem theory, a theory in translation studies, implies using polyvalent factors as an instrument for explaining the complexity of culture within a single community and between communities. Analyzing sets of relations in literature and language, it gradually shifted towards a more complex analysis of socio-cultural systems .

  4. Deviance (sociology) - Wikipedia

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    The medicalization of deviance, the transformation of moral and legal deviance into a medical condition, is an important shift that has transformed the way society views deviance. [ 3 ] : 204 The labelling theory helps to explain this shift, as behavior that used to be judged morally are now being transformed into an objective clinical diagnosis.

  5. Translation studies - Wikipedia

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    Another discovery in translation theory can be dated from 1984 in Europe and the publication of two books in German: Foundation for a General Theory of Translation by Katharina Reiss (also written Reiß) and Hans Vermeer, [12] and Translatorial Action (Translatorisches Handeln) by Justa Holz-Mänttäri. [13]

  6. Translanguaging - Wikipedia

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    In addition, Vogel and Garcia argued that translanguaging theory posits that rather than possessing two or more autonomous language systems, as previously thought when scholars described bilingual or multilingual speakers, bilinguals and multilingual speakers select and deploy their languages from a unitary linguistic repertoire. [7]

  7. Google Neural Machine Translation - Wikipedia

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    By 2020, the system had been replaced by another deep learning system based on a Transformer encoder and an RNN decoder. [10] GNMT improved on the quality of translation by applying an example-based (EBMT) machine translation method in which the system learns from millions of examples of language translation. [2]

  8. Marxist criminology - Wikipedia

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    It is this lack of integration between what the culture calls for and what the structure permits that causes deviant behavior. Deviance then is a symptom of the social structure. Taylor et al. intend a combination of Interactionism and Marxism as a radical alternative to previous theories to formulate a "fully social theory of deviance".

  9. Deviance - Wikipedia

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    Deviance (statistics), a quality of fit statistic for a model; Positive deviance, an approach to behavioral and social change; Sexual deviance (historical term) or paraphilia, recurring or intense sexual arousal to atypical things; Deviance or bid'ah, innovations and deviant acts or groups from orthodox Islamic law (Sharia)