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Education and Social Background

American Journal of Sociology, 1967
Tabulations of school years completed by family type, family head's education and occupation, and number of siblings were obtained for five-year birth cohorts of adult native males from a 1962 survey conducted by the U.S. Bureau of the Census. No more than three-tenths of the variance in attainment can be attributed to the four family factors, although
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SOCIAL BACKGROUND, EDUCATION, AND INEQUALITY

Economic Inquiry, 2019
The role parents' education plays for the educational achievements of children is a source of unequal opportunities. Through this channel the number of educated affects the options of future cohorts, creating a social multiplier effect making improvements in education self‐reinforcing.
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Social Background

1996
AbstractThis chapter investigates the influence of age, gender, class, education, income, religion, town size and rurality, parenthood, and occupational sector on attitudes towards rights and liberties. British attitudes towards the principle of liberty followed patterns broadly similar to those described by Sullivan, Pierson, and Marcus for practical ...
William L. Miller, Annis May Timpson, Michael Lessnoff   +2 more
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Higher education and social background

2012
The United Kingdom today is a society in transition. The impact of the economic recession, changing lifestyles, an increasingly heterogeneous population and evolving family structures are just some of the elements that are contributing to significant social change.The choices people make about their lifestyles – where they live, how they bring up their
Peter Elias, Kate Purcell
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Social Background of Homicide

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 1990
Results of studies on the social background of 71 male, non-psychotic defendents charged with homicide in Copenhagen between 1959 and 1983 are presented and compared with the corresponding data for male prison inmates as a whole and with the general male population.
Peter Gottlieb, Peter Kramp, Anne Lindhardt, Otto Christensen   +3 more
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Social Rules and the Social Background

2012
How can people function appropriately and respond normatively in social contexts even if they are not aware of rules governing these contexts? John Searle has rightly criticized a popular way out of this problem by simply asserting that they follow them unconsciously.
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Historical and social background

1999
One of the reasons that genetic screening is continuously sensitizing the public and moral debate is the complicated history of human genetics. The scientific analysis of human heredity and the science of genetics in general are relative recent phenomena.
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The Social and Historical Background

1985
Despite the continual warrings, invasions and counter-invasions that occupied most European countries for much of the Middle Ages, there can be no doubt that, in certain vital respects, Europe was very much more of a unity than it is now, despite our proud claim to have a European Economic Community.
Nigel Thomas, Richard Swan
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The Social Background

2021
Alfred Grosser, Richard Rees
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Social background and educational achievement in Argentina. Meritocracy or social background?

2013
This article discusses the legitimacy of those public policies which replicates distributional impact economic inequalities already present in society. It tries to rebut the presumption that these mechanisms are the result of meritocratic rewards and punishments they assign a function of effort or virtue.
Torres Minoldo, María Sol, Andrada, Marcos Javier   +1 more
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