Sentences with phrase «for social class»

Although regression analyses indicated an IQ difference even after controlling for social class and the mother's education, the decision to breastfeed may reflect intellectual and other parental factors, such as parenting skills and positive health attitudes that may be responsible for the higher IQ scores.

Children who were breastfed in infancy had significantly higher scores on IQ tests at both ages, even after adjusting for social class and education, confirming the earlier findings and extending them to a predominantly full - term sample.

Third, we examine whether the association between family type and child outcome is maintained after controlling for social class indicators and demographic control factors.

They had elevated risk for substance dependence (Table 1, model 1), however, even after accounting for social class and IQ (Table 1, model 2).

Strauss and Knight42 demonstrated that low levels of cognitive stimulation are a potent risk factor for the development of childhood obesity, even after controlling for social class and maternal obesity.

Surely a sentence of imprisonment should be imposed if appropriate for the offence committed, rather than for the social class from which the defendant comes?

African cultures have been virtually obliterated, among slaves; whatever small cultural differences exist between Negroes and whites (after controlling for social class) are the products more of cultural «drift» as a result of segregation than of surviving African traits.

Here's what sports participation looks like for children ages 6 — 11 broken down by parental education level, a good proxy for social class:

Average test scores among all clinicians were 0.42 for race (indicates moderate preference) and 0.71 for social class (indicates strong preference).

Our data agrees with that of others, 1223 that suggest that delaying the introduction of formula milk protects against the morbidity associated with respiratory infection, illness, and associated hospitalisations in the first year of life.24 Prolonged breast feeding was only marginally associated with less respiratory illness when examined in a New Zealand birth cohort to 2 years of age, 25 and the Dundee study8 showed a small, yet significant protective effect of breast feeding against respiratory illness at 0 — 13 weeks and 40 — 52 weeks after adjustment for social class, maternal age, and parental smoking.

Although regression analyses indicated an IQ difference even after controlling for social class and the mother's education, the decision to breastfeed may reflect intellectual and other parental factors, such as parenting skills and positive health attitudes that may be responsible for the higher IQ scores.

Children who were breastfed in infancy had significantly higher scores on IQ tests at both ages, even after adjusting for social class and education, confirming the earlier findings and extending them to a predominantly full - term sample.

The movie uses the high - rise and it's tenants as a metaphor for the social classes, similar to Snowpiercer.

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Besides, for the hundreds of millions of rural peasants who have already migrated to cities — supplying factories with an endless supply of cheap labour — life in cities like Shanghai, Beijing or Shenzhen means being treated like second - class citizens, since their access to social services and education for their children is tightly limited.

Tyler Law, a spokesman, said in a statement that Ryan «sees what is coming in November and is calling it quits rather than standing behind a House Republican agenda to increase healthcare costs for middle - class families while slashing Social Security and Medicare to pay for his handouts to the richest and largest corporations.»

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She drew on that experience a few years later when, as a junior at Harvard in 2011, she was taking an engineering class for non-engineers and was tasked with inventing a product that served a social good.

I teach a social media class at the University of Toronto, and I'm lucky enough to have such a range of students that come in for that course.

By booking her workout classes in advance, Dunnahoo - Kirsch is able to combine the commitment she makes with the social pressure from friends she works out with, into a powerful accountability hack for keeping her version of work - life balance in line.

While there are probably a few things Millennials themselves can do to beat back perfectionism (for the love of all that is holy, spend less time on social media, for instance), the underlying causes of this shift suggested by the study, including an increasingly terrifying scramble for a shrinking number of slots in the middle class, are something we're all going to have to address together.

«If you believe you are attractive, you tend to think you belong in a higher social class yourself and believe, accordingly, that hierarchies are a legitimate way for organizing people and groups.

WeeSpring, a social - media site started by Allyson Downey; her husband, Jack; and Melissa Post to help new parents share product recommendations, was one of just 11 companies selected - from a pool of 1,700 applicants - for Techstars's 2013 class at its New York City office.

Although Sanders and his wife's joint tax return showed income of only a little more than $ 200,000 for 2014 — including his $ 174,000 salary, his mayoral pension, and their Social Security payments — the senator's expected retirement benefits make his situation much more comparable to those in the millionaire class he faults.

GREENBLATT: Well you know I taught at Columbia as I mentioned for the last 22 years and so I tell my students that first day of class actually, I tell them that you know I don't think there's a lot of social value in being an investment manager, it's not that I don't think investors who do work set help set prices and allocate capital and all those things, but I just think A, they're not very good at it, and B, it'll get done without you.

From 2014 until today, cryptocurrency gains have been classed as industrial and commercial profits (French abbreviation BIC) or as non-commercial profits (NBC), resulting in a capital gains tax of 45 percent for high earners in addition to the generalized social contribution (CSG) of 17.2 percent.

These costs include bankers» and lawyers» fees, the risk of class - action litigation, the need to reveal commercially sensitive information that could benefit rivals, and the prospect of fights with corporate raiders who want juicier returns for shareholders and social activists who want executives to pay heed to their values.

Imposing higher taxes on the wealthy is the best way for countries such as Canada to reinvest in their social safety nets, education, and infrastructure while protecting the middle class.

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They're surrounded by legions of rookie staffers who are assigned to populate the rookie ministers» social - media accounts with gigabytes of flattering photos and nonstop cheerleading about what a progressive, green, innovative bunch of things they're doing for the middle class!

Germany Europe's growing army of robot workers could be classed as «electronic persons» and their owners liable to paying social security for them if the European Union adopts a draft plan to address the realities of a new industrial revolution.

Progressives will be expecting the government to deliver on its ambitious social agenda, and will note that this could be easily funded on the revenue side by implementing a modest corporate tax increase, by scaling back the so - called middle class tax cut, and by setting more ambitious targets for the promised Liberal review of tax loopholes for the most affluent.

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Even so committed an anti-Communist (and non-Marxist) as Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. took class conflict as self - evident, and in The Vital Center (1949) and elsewhere he depicted the central theme of American politics as the struggle for power between the business community and all other social groups.

To my mind, the boys - in - the - girls» - room message dramatizes something middle - class communities sense, which is that the entire LGBT project and allied movements undermine social norms for boys and girls and try to put in their place unworkable gender ideologies.

For the past two decades or so, the majority of those working in the humanities and the interpretive social sciences have witnessed the value of focused and sustained learning and the integrity of fields be progressively diluted and frittered away by an increasingly separate class of professional administrators.

I also took a two - year catechetical certificate program, which included a class on Catholic social teaching with the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church for a texsocial teaching with the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church for a texSocial Doctrine of the Church for a textbook.

There is little doubt that the concern for cultures and religions expresses the middle class social location of most process theologians, whereas the focus on political and economic issues and the concomitant demand for justice express the identification with the poor that is the glory of liberation theology.

As the social evils multiply and the exploitation of the lower classes increases, the need for religious morality is recognized and the penal laws of religion come into force.

They come from three kinds of social practice: the struggle for production, the class struggle and scientific experiment.»

They created greater freedom for the middle class but on the whole, at least initially, undercut the social structures that gave some security to the poor.

It seems that churches today are becoming little more than a glorified social club — a country club for the middle class, if you will.

Residential segregation by race, age or social or economic class would no longer be a major problem, for the whole city would be a single unit.

For example, as an educated, upwardly - mobile privileged person, I benefit from the fact that politicians pay attention to my social class and fight for my voFor example, as an educated, upwardly - mobile privileged person, I benefit from the fact that politicians pay attention to my social class and fight for my vofor my vote.

In a statement, El - Gamal said the money would «in part fund social service programs such as domestic violence programs, Arabic and other foreign language classes, programs and services for homeless veterans, two multi-cultural art exhibits and immigration services.»

It is true of Aristotle too: the dialectic of act and potency that, for sublunary beings, is inseparable from decay and death, or the scale of essences by which all things — especially various classes of persons — are assigned their places in the natural and social order.