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Socio-onomastics 'examines the use and variety of names through methods that demonstrate the social, cultural, and situational conditions in name usage'. [1] As a discipline, it aims to explore 'the social origin and use of different variants of proper names within various situations and contexts', including both place names and personal names.
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.
An example would be to capture the finger print and the capillary pattern at precisely the same moment. Other opportunities exist with this technology, such as to capture kirlean data which assures the finger was alive during an event, or capture of bone details forming another biometric used with the others previously mentioned.
The second finger under this system will refer to the index finger (or second digit) in medicine, [3] or in a musical context when referencing the playing of keyboard instruments. [2] The third finger usually refers to the middle finger (or third digit) in a medical context, [1] or in a musical context when referring to keyboard instruments. [2]
Finger; Fistmele - the measure of a clenched hand with the thumb extended; Gradus - Ancient Roman step; Hand - breadth of a human hand; Klafter - German measure of outstretched hands; League - the distance a person can walk in an hour (by one definition) Orgyia - Ancient Greek fathom; Parasang - the distance an infantryman could march in a ...
Anthroponymy (also anthroponymics or anthroponomastics, from Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος anthrōpos, 'human', and ὄνομα onoma, 'name') is the study of anthroponyms, the proper names of human beings, both individual and collective. [1]
Fig sign is a gesture made with the hand and fingers curled and the thumb thrust between the middle and index fingers, or, rarely, the middle and ring fingers, forming the fist so that the thumb partly pokes out. In some areas of the world, the gesture is considered a good luck charm; in others (including Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Russia, Serbia ...
Within sociology, sociometry has two main branches: research sociometry, and applied sociometry. Research sociometry is action research with groups exploring the socio-emotional networks of relationships using specified criteria e.g.