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Showing 1 to 20 of 88 for “"Affluence"”.
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Class Matters: School Affluence and Other Predictors of Attainment for Wealthy and Poor Students
… that the differential effects of school affluence and other factors related to attainment across social class create the potential to perpetuate social inequality beyond the schoolhouse gates. </p>
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Working class community in the era of affluence : sociability and identity in a Yorkshire town, 1945-1980
… qualitative case-study of the impact of post-war affluence on working-class ways of life in the small town of Beverley, focussed particularly on sociability and identity. The thesis argues that sociological and historical concern with the decline of forms of ‘traditional working-class community’ …
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The Contribution of Cognitive Flexibility and Socioeconomic Status to Arithmetic Skills in Chinese Children
… using a demographic questionnaire and the Family Affluence Scale. Structural equation modelling revealed that the predictive role of cognitive flexibility varied depending on the type of arithmetic knowledge. Specifically, cognitive flexibility was significantly associated with procedural and …
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Sustainability politics: The consequences of rebounds Vol. 1
… fallow after reducing population, and/or the affluence of some people, and/or the technological ratio of inputs to economic output, are merely consumed to support more people, raise the affluence of others, and/or increase the amount of economic output. In order however to decrease throughput …
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A pilot study on the development and testing of an instrument for assessment of dependency needs of older persons in South Africa
… of urban-living individuals and assumed relative affluence in contrast to the reality of the situation of the bulk of the South African population. The instrument was deficient in that it assessed only mental and physical disabilities. It did not take into account the wide disparities relating to …
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“Old habits persist” Change and continuity in Black Country communities: Pensnett, Sedgley and Tipton, 1945-c.1970
… sources, the thesis demonstrates that growing affluence impacted only marginally upon the customary social mores of the lowermiddle and working-class inhabitants. Whilst aspirations to new housing and increased consumption affected perceptions of status and social standing, the economic …
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The relationship between environmental characteristics and collective bargaining agent affiliation of selected community colleges
… of six groups of variables; namely, Faculty Affluence, Size, Technological Emphasis, Masculinity, Institutional Affluence, and Exclusivity. When an ANOVA was applied, bargaining and non-bargaining institutions, taken as a group, could be differentiated according to Size with bargaining …
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A STIRPAT model of sectoral CO2 emissions at the county scale
… and anthropogenic variables of population, affluence, and technology in the United States. Methods: Ordinary least squares regression and spatial analytical techniques are used to analyze variation in CO2 emissions based on a modified version of the STIRPAT model. The unit of analysis is the …
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On the Economic Effects of Policy Responsiveness: The Role of Candidate Selection for General Elections
… to the interests of the whole favors economic affluence, what political institutions matter for the advancement of wide-encompassing interests through the policy making process? This dissertation examines the idea that the incentives provided by the intra-party candidate selection methods are …
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A demand model of physician membership in the American College of Radiology
The strength and affluence of an association is related to the size of its membership and its share of those eligible for membership. Associations, therefore, have an incentive not only to recruit new members, but also retain those who already belong. However, less is known about the exogenous …
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Born to Shop: Teenage Women and the United States Marketplace in the 1950s
… emerged as indebted prosperity. The false affluence that appeared in the beginnings of the cold war contributed to a sense of anxiety that, within popular psychological discourses, was projected onto adolescence. Constructed as a period of storm and stress, adolescent angst allegedly …
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Renewing Manchester: A supportive life skills center for Manchester's most underprivileged residents
… cities, houses simultaneously houses both affluence and poverty.
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Manufacturing muscle : the hot rod industry and the American fascination with speed, 1915-1984
… ways in which, in the midst of America's postwar affluence, the spectacular growth both of the high-performance industry and of hot rodding itself helped spawn the youth-oriented musclecar movement upon which the Big Three would later feed. In its examination of the 1940s and 1950s, the …
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A Transnational and Intergenerational Account of Value Preference Patterns: Revisiting Needs-gratification and Post-materialist Theories
… I argue that a) personal and national economic affluence or security may not be sufficient to describe social ecology nor fully describe the ways that power can influence values, b) individual and collective relational power is utilitarian and essential, c) fulfillment of material and social …
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The rise and fall of a wall and a dialect: Observations of shifting linguistic behavior among former East Berliners
… a "showcase" city, the dialect became a sign of affluence and cultural superiority. This paper will analyze these trends by evaluating research findings (based on interviews, participant observation, recordings of reading lists, matched guise tests, and surveys) and discussing potential …
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Exporting America: The U.S. Information Centers and German Reconstruction
… of democracy and a reformed market economy, affluence was something West Germans could realistically aspire to. As a key transmitter of American information and ideas, the program was a means by which the United States attempted to change German resistance to American cultural products, and …
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High Stakes Testing in Louisiana: An Analysis of the Disparate Impact on Black and White Eighth Grade Students and the Perspectives of Parents
… (GED) or quitting school. Parents agreed that affluence and the level of family support affected students’ test performance. Some parents also believed it was unfair that non-public school students were not required to take or pass such tests and some parents considered enrolling their child in …
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The Goals and Expectations of Parents and Teachers: A Comparison of Two Schools
… classroom. The study went further to examine if affluence of the parent community determined the existence or absence of this gap. Different works over the past two decades which have touched on the relationship between home and school were explored. Two schools of different ethnic, socioeconomic …
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Wilderness rivers: environmentalism, the wilderness movement, and river preservation during the 1960s
… perceived their environment. Higher levels of affluence and education, continued urbanization, and the popularization of ecology converged to promote an environmental awakening that increased steadily throughout the decade. The conservation movement broadened to include issues of quality of …
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