Sentences with phrase «social status measure»

the social status measure.

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It is a true tragedy the way people are being in this country looked at, and ones worth, even their character is being evaluated / measured i by their social status, mainly by their banking accounts.

So when we want to know about a person's friends and associates, we look at the people with whom she eats, and when we want to measure a someone's social status against our own, we look at the sort of dinner parties to which he gets invited.

Thus, on Hartshorne's view, ethical status is measured by love, that is, by action from social awareness which takes account of the interests of others.

They lived in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C., and shared a life with their neighbors, many of whom were by no measure equal to them in education, income, or social status.

Though some social commentators questioned the public's perception of the size of the evangelical movement and the validity of some of the measures used, few of them could match the status granted the movement by the general media as a whole.

Article 11 (2) In order to prevent discrimination against women on the grounds of marriage or maternity and to ensure their effective right to work, States Parties shall take appropriate measures: (a) To prohibit, subject to the imposition of sanctions, dismissal on the grounds of pregnancy or maternity leave and discrimination in dismissals on the basis of marital status; (b) To introduce maternity leave with pay or with comparable social benefits without loss of former employment, seniority or social allowances; (c) To encourage the provision of necessary supporting social services to enable parents to combine family obligations with work responsibilities and participation in public life

We would also like to see stronger measures to protect the welfare of Greyhounds, an effective dialogue on the growing social problem of dangerous and status dogs, and a total ban on the battery - farming and selling of puppies in pet shops.

The index is a composite indicator of health status, educational attainment (social development) coupled with per capita income (economic performance) and remains one of the most credible measures for human development across countries and regions worldwide.

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).

Our results showed that an individual's location, measured as the optimal collective influence to the structural integrity of the social network, is highly correlated with personal economic status.»

«However, we also think that traditional measures of childhood socioeconomic status may not accurately reflect the childhood social environments of African Americans, which is quite different from that of U.S. whites because of the history of racial discrimination and segregation.

Instead of measuring just the structure of social networks (who knows whom), marital status or membership in church or community groups, the functional social network index also measures social networks as a source of emotional and practical support from friends and relatives, as well as advice about weight management and physical activity.

As part of the Framingham Heart Study, participants updated researchers on their social contacts and health status, including happiness, as measured by a standard psychological questionnaire.

In the eleven countries that we studied, we compared the numbers of top - and bottom - quartile students (using a measure of social and economic status formulated by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) who made it into the high - scoring ranks on PISA in 2012.

As part of a series of measures to tackle it, the government has introduced the National Healthy Schools Programme, through which schools are awarded Healthy School status if they can demonstrate meaningful achievement in four areas: personal, social and health education, healthy eating, physical activity, and emotional health and wellbeing.

A series of measures have been set out by the Department for Education (DfE) to raise the status of the social work profession.

Outcome measures covered all four Head Start program goals: cognitive development, social - emotional development, health status and access to health care, and parenting practices.

The measure of social status, of social acceptance, of prestige, is now to be found in our consumptive patterns.

Socioeconomic status was measured using the Hollingshead Two Factor Index of Social Position.

This reporting mechanism establishes benchmarks against which to measure progress towards closing the social and economic gaps; to «assist government and mainstream agencies to maintain a focus on the status of Maori in their work and decision - making»; [16] and to assist in setting priorities for policy development.

The main outcome measures were depressive symptoms, health status, social support and demographic and lifestyle information.

First, the outcomes were measured in children who played little role in generating the family's social status, and therefore offered a fairly clean test of competing theories.

The current total perceived social support status can be measured according to the total score for the 12 items.

We added four additional items based on measures by Buss and colleagues [55] and Lalonde and colleagues [24] because of their potential significance for choosing a mate in traditional, collectivistic societies (i.e., «comes from a family with a good reputation», «favorable social status or rating», «similar religious background» and «someone my family approves of»).

The most recent follow - up study reported associations between duration of breastfeeding and childhood cognitive ability and academic achievement extending from 8 to 18 years in a New Zealand cohort of 1000 children.19 This study found that these effects were significant after controlling for measures of social and family history, including maternal age, education, SES, marital status, smoking during pregnancy, family living conditions, and family income, and measures of perinatal factors, including gender, birth weight, child's estimated gestational age, and birth order in the family.

Few countries identified in the international WHO global status report address violence through social and educational policy measures.1

Descriptive data, including participant demographics (age, gender, baseline measures of school achievement, social and economic status).

Teachers completed measures of social competence, social status, and aggression.

For example, longitudinal studies have concluded that social networks and social support are causal factors in several measures of health status, including psychological distress, cardiovascular diseases, chronic diseases, mortality, and quality of life (Berkman & Syme, 1979; Eng, Rimm, Fitzmaurice, & Kawachi, 2002; House, Landis, & Umberson, 1988; Seeman, Kaplan, Knudsen, Cohen, & Guralnik, 1987).

The right to negotiate is thus not a «special measure» - it is not a measure temporarily adopted to enable a disadvantaged sector to «catch - up» to the social and economic status of the rest of the community.

The Loneliness Questionnaire (LQ) is a 24 - item measure with 16 items assessing loneliness, social inadequacy, and perceived social status at school (e.g., «I'm lonely at school»), plus eight filler items (e.g., «I like to read»).

Socioeconomic status measured by a revised version of the Hollingshead Index of Social Position (LaGasse et.al., 1999).

It was found that the EE status of the family was significantly associated with measures of psychopathology and social functioning (BPRS, GAS, DAS, number of residual symptoms).

Under his rule, which has come to be known as the Baroque period, craftsmanship in possessions was a measure of social status; furniture and interiors became ever more elaborately carved, gilded and decorated.