Sentences with phrase «of socioeconomic class»

Rarely will you see historical events where there is such a wide variety of hats and participation by members of every socioeconomic class.

But what's really enormous is the span of the story, in both time and territory, not to mention the ever - shifting gradations of the socioeconomic class system of modern Japan.

Her PhD research focuses on the intersections of socioeconomic class, education, and language in Maharashtra, India.

«Only four of the schools from Africa were in the top 1 % of their socioeconomic class.»

The great majority of students were from the lower end of the socioeconomic class, he notes.

This is partly because socioeconomic class in childhood is a strong indicator of socioeconomic class in adulthood.

Many of our friends and neighbors of all socioeconomic classes have not been exposed enough to fundamental financial principles and to that end we invite you to share this guide with others in your immediate circle and wider communities who may benefit from a refresher on these basic finance points.

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With «Roseanne» returning to television for a limited run, MarketWatch's Jacob Passy and Georgetown University's Sherry Linkon discuss how the show became a voice of working - class Americans and whether it still relates to the socioeconomic issues of today.

All this despite the fact that private schooling doesn't actually yield better outcomes for students, according to a recent Statistics Canada report (instead, the apparent academic success of private school student is due to their socioeconomic backgrounds).9 A UBC study also found that students from public schools scored higher in first - year university classes than their private school counterparts.10

One movement is the development of a dynamic, community - creating religion among lower socioeconomic classes or other marginalized groups.

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.)

The confusion of basic philosophy concerning alcohol is caused in part by, the marked differences in attitudes toward alcohol on the part of the various socioeconomic classes in our country.

I emphasize that any decision on Jesus» socioeconomic class must be made not in terms of Christian theology but of cross-cultural anthropology, not in terms of those interested in exalting Jesus but in terms of those not even thinking of his existence.

There are good political and social reasons behind making pre-K available to everyone, including the benefits to all children of socioeconomic integration and the fact that middle - class voters are more likely to be invested in programs that aren't narrowly targeted at the poor.

But as his study notes, «women under different types of socioeconomic constraints are assessing marriageability in class - specific ways.»

Noticing this trend throughout a large variety of cultures, socioeconomic classes, and settings around the world, researchers began to study how breastfeeding impacted fertility.

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.

Standard of living refers to the level of wealth, comfort, material goods and necessities available to a certain socioeconomic class in a certain geographic area.

They integrate by class — socioeconomic background — and the subtitle of his book is «Why There Are No Bad Schools in Raleigh».

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.

«The higher an individual's socioeconomic background, measured in terms of parental social class or parental education, the more likely they are to work in science.»

Five measures of socioeconomic status were assessed: age completing full time education, degree level education, job class, annual household income, and Townsend deprivation index (a recognised social deprivation score).

«These data support evidence that height and BMI play an important partial role in determining several aspects of a person's socioeconomic status, especially women's BMI for income and deprivation and men's height for education, income, and job class,» they write.

The likelihood of being a victim, or both a bully and victim, was seen to be slightly higher within lower socioeconomic classes.

But none of these studies was able to determine if the longevity was due to cultural factors, such as a higher socioeconomic class or better living conditions.

«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.

Existence of underserved or inaccessible populations: Another type of person who might try CAM approaches is one who is not well served by the medical establishment because of socioeconomic status, class, ethnic background, or geographical isolation.

While socioeconomic status is a major contributor to the greater burden of heart disease and stroke in African Americans, the statement notes that among the growing middle - and upper - class African American community, health outcomes are still poorer in African Americans, even when their socioeconomic status is comparable to white Americans.

This was true even after taking into account age, gender, socioeconomic class, use of heart medications, and whether or not the person lived alone or had depression.

Regardless of your history or socioeconomic status, you most likely believe in some form of the «American dream,» the idea that anyone in the US, regardless of race, social class, or geography, can find and build upon opportunities to create a successful and rewarding life.

They come from different socioeconomic backgrounds, however, with Florence's family representing the upper middle class that looks down on people of Edward's more humble status.

A well - intentioned historical drama that unfolds in the 1960s against the backdrop of the Nigerian Civil War, Half of a Yellow Sun features a couple strong lead performances from Chiwetel Ejiofor and Thandie Newton, plus the sort of high stakes and stark socioeconomic class conflict that often lends itself to engaging adaptation.

Regardless of the socioeconomic circumstance of the child or school, we can teach what Dr. Ruby Payne calls «the hidden rules of middle class» — for the child to use if she so chooses.

It's critical to keep bias out of the classroom, where no student deserves to be judged by his or her race, socioeconomic class, or gender.

Indeed, colleges and universities are even frequently evaluated on the racial, geographic, and socioeconomic diversity of each incoming class of students, and affirmative action...

He says that pursuing a career in education, starting with TFA, is important to him because he wants to give students of all racial and socioeconomic backgrounds the same educational opportunity he had at Harvard — a sentiment echoed by many students from Merseth's class.

That's quite a stretch, especially because of much other evidence showing that reading is more strongly linked to socioeconomic class.

Ensure that every high school offers high - quality AP classes in core subjects and that districts prepare students of every racial and socioeconomic group in earlier grades to succeed in AP.

Such factors include the influence of students» other educators (such as teachers and tutors), class size, the quality of the curriculum, and various socioeconomic elements.

Our strategy takes advantage of the fact that data were collected on both actual and average class sizes and on students» performance and socioeconomic backgrounds for more than one grade level in each school.

After two years of interviewing more than 100 black, Latino, and white undergraduates at an elite university, Jack came up with a new way to think about how factors like poverty and socioeconomic segregation — segregation by class — shape the way students experience college.

He found kids fighting in the corridors, poor attendance, seven layers of academic tracking that placed students in classes ranging from college bound to vocational to disregarded — mostly along racial and socioeconomic lines — and a disheartened teaching staff.

They must defend their selections, explaining the specifics of the dish and which socioeconomic class it would represent.

Last semester students from Mehta's class presented a 22 - page wiki site focused on a wide range of hot topics in education policy including desegregation and METCO, teacher preparation, merit pay, and socioeconomic integration of schools.

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.

Indeed, colleges and universities are even frequently evaluated on the racial, geographic, and socioeconomic diversity of each incoming class of students, and affirmative action policies in admissions are based on the rationale that the presence of campus diversity enriches the learning environment.

They examined a million American inventors — people who have actually filed patents — and discovered «large disparities... by socioeconomic class, race, and gender» although «differences in ability... explain very little of these disparities.»

Administrators often try to identify this sort of carrot to entice middle - class parents into schools where they can help even out the socioeconomic mix.

If socioeconomic differences are a major force driving discipline disparities, than we would expect to see bigger discipline disparities in districts with bigger socioeconomic disparities — that is, in places where most of the white students are middle class or above and most of the African American students are poor.