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filiation (fIlI'eIS&schwa.n). Also 6 filiacion. |
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1. Theol. The process of becoming, or the condition of being, a son. |
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Many Dicts. have a sense 'adoption as a son,' illustrated by the first of our quotes from Donne. The sense is etymologically justifiable, and may probably exist; but quot. 1628 seems to show that it was not intended by Donne. |
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2. The designating (of a person) as a son; ascription of sonship. |
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3. The fact of being the child of a specified parent. Also, a person's parentage; "whose son one is." |
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4. The fact of being descended or derived, or of originating from; descent, transmission from. |
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5. The relation of one thing to another from which it may be said to be descended or derived; position in a genealogical classification. |
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6. Formation of branches or offshoots; chiefly concr., a branch or offshoot of a society or language. |
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7. = Affiliation 3. lit. and fig. (Oxford English Dictionary, 2) |
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a rich examination of the architecture of the multiple categories that touch people's lives. Threads carry a variety of textural qualities that are often applied to human interactions: tension, knottiness or smoothness, bundling, proximity, and thickness. We select a small number here to focus on. |
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Loosely CoupledTightly Coupled |
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A category (or system of categories) may be loosely or tightly coupled with a person. Gender and age are very tightly coupled with a person as categories. One of the interesting aspects of the investigation of virtual identities in Multi User Dungeons (MUDs) and elsewhere on line is the loosening of these traditionally tightly coupled threads under highly constrained circumstances (e.g., Turkle 1995). Loosely coupled categories may be those that are transient, such as the color one is wearing on a given day or one's position in a waiting line. Somewhere in the middle are hair color, which may shift slowly over a lifetime or change in an afternoon, or marital status. |
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Categories' filiations have variable scope. Some are durable threads that cover many aspects of someone's identity and are accepted as such on a very wide or even global scale. (Noting for the record that none |
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