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Description

Failure is the social concept of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and is usually viewed as the opposite of success. The criteria for failure depends on context, and may be relative to a particular observer or belief system. One person might consider a failure what another person considers a success, particularly in cases of direct competition or a zero-sum game. Similarly, the degree of success or failure in a situation may be differently viewed by distinct observers or participants, such that a situation that one considers to be a failure, another might consider to be a success, a qualified success or a neutral situation.

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Organizations relating to Failure

Uniform Rules on Contract Clauses for an Agreed Sum Due Upon Failure of Performance / Vienna, Austria / Est. 1983
European Working Group on Psychosocial Aspects of Children with Chronic Renal Failure / Heidelberg, Germany / Est. 1971
International Conference on Defects in Semiconductors
International Symposium on Defects and Material Mechanics

View all profiles (7 total) in the Yearbook of International Organizations

World Problems relating to Failure

From the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential

Inadequacy of international standards
Failure of government intelligence services
Failure of the zoo as an educational institution
Failure of green politics
Inadequate evidence to convict known offenders
Failure to conceptualize large-scale problems
Misuse of spiritual authority for sexual purposes
Mental depression
Inadequate health services
Defective municipal water delivery equipment
Unemployment of educated older people
Failed migration
Lack of folic acid in diet
Cease-fire violations
Limited social guidance from older generations
Educational wastage
Lack of care
Electrical power failure
Defective land use planning
Lack of response to monetary incentives
Defective immune system
Resource consumption exacerbated by price distortions
Human birth defects
Social breakdown
Degradation of cultivated land systems

Action Strategies relating to Failure

From the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential

Sacrificing countries
Researching respiratory distress syndrome
Reducing environmental failures of public sector
Reducing failures of public sector
Rehabilitating defective water systems
Preventing material fatigue
Eliminating tax deductions for environmentally harmful activities
Supplying emergency breakdown repairs
Illuminating areas of decision-making failure
Addressing failure of programmes against problems
Addressing government failure to mobilize support against problems
Addressing failure to include local populations in solutions to problems
Avoiding engineering failure
Protecting against vulnerability of technology
Having a mental breakdown
Treating mental breakdown
Studying social breakdown
Studying marriage breakdown
Treating deafness
Being defective
Reasoning defectively
Supporting people with genetic defects
Correcting defective land use planning
Monitoring genetic defects
Treating visual deficiencies

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