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Showing 1 to 20 of 284 for “"affluent"”.
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Transformative leadership and the purpose of schooling in affluent communities
… The tensions are even more astutely present in affluent communities where homogeneous populations of upper-middle class Whites enjoy and appreciate the comfort of the status quo, while presuming the public school’s responsibility for the provision of private sector success, and these complex …
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Accounting for taste : regulating food labeling in the "affluent society," 1945-1995
… personal versus collective responsibility in an affluent society, the FDA changed how it regulated food labeling. Following WWII, the agency developed a set of standard recipes with fixed common name labels (such as "peanut butter" or "tomato soup"), or "standards of identity," for all …
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Managing secrecy and disclosure of domestic violence in affluent communities: a grounded theory ethnography
… all groups of women, there is scant research on affluent women’s experiences with DV. Using grounded theory and ethnographic approaches, the present study examined how affluent mothers managed secrecy and disclosure of DV in the context of their community. Data consisted of neighborhood …
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Understanding affluent male NEETs (not in employment, education or training) by choice: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
… research aims to focus on a subset of NEETs, affluent males who choose not to work, study or train to better understand their disposition not to do so. An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of 8 interviews with affluent male NEETs by choice posited 6 superordinate themes (Working …
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The Hidden Costs of Success: A Mixed Methods Approach to Examining Achievement Pressures in Affluent Youth
… have begun to recognize that youth from affluent backgrounds report elevated adjustment problems (Csikszentmihalyi & Schneider 2001; Luthar & Lantendresse 2005a), yet contributing factors have rarely been investigated. The present study explored various parenting variables and their …
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Challenging myopic views: Black students negotiate advanced placement courses in a predominantly White and affluent suburban high school
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2023-12-01
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A Mediational Model Predicting Adjustment in Affluent Adolescents: The Role of Parental Perfectionism, Perceived Parental Pressure, and Organized Activity Involvement
… use, and life satisfaction in a sample of affluent adolescents. Findings indicated that parental perfectionism, and specifically other-oriented and socially prescribed perfectionism, is an important contextual factor negatively influencing affluent adolescent adjustment. Additionally, …
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Making a "black Beverly Hills": The struggle for housing equality in modern Los Angeles
… low-income blacks and adopting white norms, affluent blacks defied racial restrictive covenants, endured white intimidation, and pursued lawsuits in an effort to live in some of the city's desirable neighborhoods and attain full access to the city. Claiming their right to better housing and …
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Causes and implications of socio-ecomic differentiation in residential energy efficiency retrofitting.
… value of energy efficiency is less in the most affluent households, because the proportion of income spent on fuel tends to decline as incomes rise. Fuel expenditure statistics indicate that the household fuel demand reductions delivered by greater household energy efficiency between 2002 and …
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Parental Involvement in Children’s Schooling and Learning in the School, Home and Community in Rural India.
… research from rural India demonstrates that less affluent parents are less likely to engage in activities that support their children’s schooling and learning, than their wealthier counterparts. School actors and community leaders often attribute this to parents living in poverty being unaware of, …
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The role of Islamic finance in tackling financial exclusion in the UK
… study looking at the financial exclusion of less affluent UK Muslims before and since Shari’a compliant finance was introduced. The impact of the introduction of Islamic banking in enhancing the financial inclusion level of low income Muslims is assessed. The main findings of the research are that …
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The Moral Paradox of the "Brain Drain"
… drain‖ of educated professionals from less affluent to more affluent nations has become a widely discussed global phenomenon. This thesis will focus on the migration of physicians from developing to developed countries. In the thesis, I will offer a description of the brain drain in health …
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Maternal Socialization and Anti-racism Mothering: A Grounded Theory
… race, gender, and class socialization inform affluent white mothers' adoption of IM? (2) What is the process of affluent white mothers challenging or adopting IM to incorporate anti-racism into their maternal identity and mothering practices? and (3) What are the perceived barriers or …
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Class Matters: School Affluence and Other Predictors of Attainment for Wealthy and Poor Students
… research explores the impact of attending an affluent high school on long-term educational attainment. It finds that attending an affluent school is associated with greater attainment for most students, even when controlling for a student’s demographic background, academic performance, and …
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The relationship between socioeconomic status and competitive sport anxiety in youth
… Participants included 62 youth athletes from an affluent and a middle class socioeconomic background defined by average household income. All participants completed the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2 approximately one hour before competing in sport. Significance testing (t-test) was …
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