Thursday 20 May 2010

Definitions

Structural:
 
> relating to or caused by structure, especially political or economic structure;
 
> structure is a fundamental and sometimes intangible notion covering the recognition, observation, nature, and stability of patterns and relationships of entities
 
> social organization: the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships
 
> in universal algebra and in model theory, a structure consists of a set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations which are defined on it
 
 
Reform:
 
> make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices
 
> bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
 
> beneficial change, or sometimes, more specifically, reversion to a pure original state
 
> change for the better
 
> produce by cracking
 
> self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice