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Showing 1 to 20 of 514 for “"Social status"”.
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Community social status effects on migration outcomes
… age, does this show upward, downward or lateral status movement? Second, do migrants tend to move from less desirable communities to communities with higher socioeconomic standards of living? Third, what is the relationship between education and upward mobility, as the individual education levels …
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Relations Between Ability, Social Status, and Performance
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The Role Of Social Status In Negative Tie Formation
This paper explores the question of how social status influences negative tie formation. Although previous literature in network scholarship has identified the role of social status in tie formation, it has mainly focused on the presence and the absence of positive ties such as friendship and …
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How social status shapes U.S. children’s beliefs about social mobility
Children grow up within social hierarchies that shape their everyday lives. Social mobility is a core mechanism through which societies either challenge or maintain existing inequalities. The present study examined how U.S. children’s social status—both experimentally manipulated and measured at …
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The legal and social status of women in the Hadith literature
This thesis covers the status of, and attitude to, the woman in Islam, as reflected by the literature of the Hadith. All previous works which have dealt with the status of the woman in Islam have attempted to cover vast areas and aspect ranging from the pre-Islamic era to our present time. However, …
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Social Status, Opportunity And Repeat Victimization: The Unequal Distribution Of Safety
… examines the relationship between victimization, social status and opportunity. More specifically, the effects of social status and opportunity on repeat victimization are examined. How does social status and opportunity simultaneously effect repeat victimization? This report consists of a …
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Subjective social status and its associations with social vulnerabilities and health
BACKGROUND: Subjective social status (SSS) is the perception of where one stands in a social hierarchy, distinct from one’s actual, objective position in this hierarchy. SSS may influence health through behavioral and psychosocial mechanisms. METHODS: We conducted three sub-studies to examine …
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Crime, Policing, and Social Status: Identifying Elusive Mechanisms Using New Statistical Approaches
<p>Social class is often discussed in crime and social control research but the influence of class in these contexts is not well understood. Stratification studies have identified effects of socioeconomic status on a diverse collection of important outcomes in many facets of society, but the …
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Cross-national analysis of the association between subjective social status and health.
… the extensive research effort, subjective social status (SSS) has emerged as a relevant tool for social science and health researchers to investigate socioeconomic disparities in health. Despite the increasing evidences of a significant relationship between SSS and health, most of the …
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The economic and social status of the college women of the United States
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Effects of social status, religion, and secularization on attitudes toward gender equality among Iranians
… equality in Iran. This study examined whether social status factors, religious/spiritual involvement, and secularization affect attitudes toward gender equality in employment, education, and politics. It also assessed whether gender had a moderating role in the associations between these three …
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Being Chinese in Honolulu: A Political and Social Status or A Way of Life
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Social status in the early adolescent peer system in the United States and China
Youth with high social status have the potential to play an important role in socializing their peers during adolescence. Unfortunately, there has been little empirical attention to this issue, particularly outside the West. My dissertation examined the characteristics that contribute to social …
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Social status and governmental trust : a study of civil society organizations in Guangzhou, China
… which are established by people with mid or high social status, have more contacts with the government and show low trust in the government. On the other hand, non-elite civil society organizations, which are established by people with low social status, have fewer contacts with the government and …
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Mental illness, social status and health care utilization: a test of societal reaction theory
… the area of theory. Sociologists maintain that social variables such as age, social class, marital status, gender, and race are important in understanding mental illness and its treatment. Although sociologists agree that social variables are important in understanding mental illness, they are …
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PEER GROUP SOCIALIZATION OF AGGRESSION IN EARLY ADOLESCENCE: SOCIAL STATUS, GROUP CHARACTERISTICS, AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
… in shaping and supporting group members' antisocial behavior (e.g., aggression), researchers have focused on the influence of group norms on individuals' behavior. Two potential aspects of variability have been neglected: peers in a group would vary in the strength of influences on …
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Social Status Inflation, Narcissism, and Aggression: The Role of Peer Victimization as a Potential Moderator
<p>Much literature relates social status inflation and narcissism to aggression in children, especially pertaining to peer relationships. The literature does not yet address how these concepts may be impacted by peer victimization. Both children with higher levels of social status inflation and …
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