Sentences with phrase «lower socioeconomic class»

Second, mental health problems are prevalent in people of lower socioeconomic class.
One movement is the development of a dynamic, community - creating religion among lower socioeconomic classes or other marginalized groups.
Most men, and in particular healthy men from lower socioeconomic classes, are poorly motivated by existing smoking cessation programmes.
And Cuomo just looks like a buffoon but Dems are mostly from the lower socioeconomic classes with less education so I guess they'll believe whatever Cuomo says.
The likelihood of being a victim, or both a bully and victim, was seen to be slightly higher within lower socioeconomic classes.
OTOH, a women of low socioeconomic class who dies at age 20, but has a large extended family to raise her two children, has replaced herself (each child has two parents).

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Meta - analyses also indicate that young people of low socioeconomic status benefit more from attending these schools than do students from the middle and upper classes.
(Since the study was of parents of college students it is probable that it did not include a proportional sampling of the lowest classes on the socioeconomic scale.)
Gay fathers tend to be economically well - off, one means by which their children may garner social advantages relative to other children, while additional research has shown that children of gay fathers did not report differences in sex - typed behaviour compared with parents of other family configurations.58 A large literature shows that parents tend to transmit values to their children along socioeconomic status lines, with middle class parents typically imparting different values from parents in lower socioeconomic strata.59, 60 However, little of this work has examined fathers in particular, as distinct from mothers.
The group Labour is increasingly relying on is the lower DE socioeconomic class, where it holds a substantial lead.
The assumption is that if you are black and come from a socioeconomically middle class home, you no longer suffer the significant disadvantage of race, as race - related disadvantages are overcome when the lower socioeconomic status is overcome.
«Although this study of clinicians from surgical and other related specialties did not demonstrate any association between implicit race or social class bias and clinical decision making, existing biases might influence the quality of care received by minority patients and those of lower socioeconomic status in real - life clinical encounters.
The great majority of students were from the lower end of the socioeconomic class, he notes.
Another consideration: choice in education already exists (as any real - estate agent knows well), but is so highly correlated with socioeconomic status as to preclude low - income (and some middle - class) folks from availing themselves of the choice — and the resulting social and political capital — which others enjoy.
But the fact that the administration has blessed moves by states such as Tennessee, Florida, and Virginia have enacted race - and class - based socioeconomic targets (including the so - called Cut the Gap in Half approach structured by the Education Trust) that define proficiency down as well as damn poor and minority kids to low expectations also proves lie to Duncan's statement.
Socioeconomic integration is a win - win situation: Low - income students» performance rises; all students receive the cognitive benefits of a diverse learning environment (Antonio et al., 2004; Phillips, Rodosky, Muñoz, & Larsen, 2009); and middle - class students» performance seems to be unaffected up to a certain level of integration.
It's frequently the case that students attend classes that correlate highly with learners» race and socioeconomic status, with less privileged students in lower learning groups or tracks and more privileged students in more advanced ones (Darling - Hammond, 2010).
«I think this myth still exists because there are many middle - class families who see financial aid as only an option for those from a low socioeconomic status,» she says.
Among the popular misconceptions surrounding contractions is that they're a recent invention and typify the language of the uneducated, lower - socioeconomic classes.
And during these periods it wasn't just the lower - socioeconomic classes who used them: William Shakespeare (Hamlet: early 1600s), Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility: 1811), and Charles Dickens (Hard Times: 1854) used them, too.
Growing up, the majority of participants identified their socioeconomic class as middle - class (45.5 %), followed by lower middle / working class (24.8 %), upper - middle class (24.2 %), poor (2.9 %), and wealthy (2.5 %).
In reference to social class, lower socioeconomic status has been associated with more frequent corporal punishment (Straus and Donnelly, 1994).
This study examined the role of socioeconomic status (SES) and the quality of the home environment of seventy - seven Chilean majority and Mapuche minority families from low and lower - middle - class backgrounds in explaining individual differences in vocabulary acquisition of their three - and - a-half-year-old children.
Although the above studies were conducted with primarily Caucasian, middle - class samples, there is also evidence to suggest that among low socioeconomic status (SES) samples with poor metabolic control externalizing symptoms may be more highly linked to the development of poor health outcomes than internalizing symptoms.
In addition to sexism and racism, many women also face class - based discrimination due to the low socioeconomic status, as well as social exclusion arising from their regional or remote geographical location,» Ms Šimonovic said.
Socioeconomic status ranged from lower to upper - middle class according to Hollingshead's two - factor classification, with most fathers and mothers in the upper - middle class (61.2 and 68.2 %, respectively), and approximately half of the families with both parents in the upper - middle class (49.2 %).
A majority of Ugly houses are typically in lower socioeconomic neighborhoods, but sometimes in moderate or middle class neighborhoods.
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