Sentences with phrase «such social comparisons»

Parents can try to limit such social comparisons by refraining from doing so themselves.

Not exact matches

In comparison, social media has become more of a go - to marketing / PR tool than traditional platforms such as television (11 percent), radio (14 percent) and billboards (8 percent).

What such comparisons fail to take into consideration is the effect of the Negroes» inferior average social, economic, and educational position upon their intellectual development.

The report looks attendance trends, domestic league structures and club finances as well as the new football metrics such as a comparison of clubs» and players» social media footprints, an analysis of football agent commission rates and agent concentration across leagues, the overlap between the 2017/18 league start and transfer window end, and the increase in cross-border and multi-club ownership.

After the optimal point of needs is met, people may be driven by desires such as pursuing more material gains and engaging in social comparisons, which could, ironically, lower well - being.

The questionnaire asked participants to rate their agreement with statements in order to calculate their Facebook activity (such as «I'm posting photographs»), social comparison orientation («I often compare how I am doing socially»), materialism («My life would be better if I owned certain things I don't have»), objectification of Facebook friends («Having many Facebook friends contributes more success in my personal and professional life») and instrumentalization of Facebook friends («To what extent do you think Facebook friends are useful in order to attain your goals?»).

This dogged attachment to a romanticized social conservatism may fit our current political climate and the retro fantasies of teenage girls, but it undermines the occasional charms of such a graph plotted romantic comedy, which suffers particularly in inevitable comparison with» My Best Friend's Wedding.»

Daryl teaches his students how to construct graphic organizers to reflect over-arching text patterns that authors in the social sciences use to organize ideas, such as problem - solution, comparison - contrast, cause - effect, description, and sequence.

These comparisons have led some social scientists and geneticists to suggest that the chief explanation for such disparities is innate intellectual capacity.

In their widely cited 2007 study of large longitudinal data sets, University of California Irvine, education professor Greg Duncan and his colleagues found that in a comparison of math, literacy, and social - emotional skills at kindergarten entry, «early math concepts, such as knowledge of numbers and ordinality, were the most powerful predictors of later learning.»

What comparisons can be made between the animal activism movement and other social movements, such as civil rights and environmental movements?

The conservatives (denialists) in a society see themselves as being near the top of the heap, mechanisms that bring about major social changes are likely to be bad for their position, in comparison the liberals (alarmists) see such mechanisms as an opportunity to bring about social change to their advantage, examples of how conservatives fight against such changes can be seen all over the place, from giving women the vote, to civil rights legislation, to gay marriage, etc..

By comparison, the state deemed it a felony to impersonate other licensed professionals such as doctors, dentists, veterinarians, social workers, accountants, and even court stenographers.

Third, there are the direct effects of digital media, such as the social comparison of social media where we all think other people's lives are more glamorous than ours.