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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"economic deprivation"”.
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Socio-Economic Deprivation, Culture and Extremism in Britain
… in the UK, and to assess whether or not socio-economic deprivation, and/or culture encourage/s such extremism. Through the utilization of both statistical and cultural analyses, this thesis asserts that the roots of home-grown extremism in the UK are linked both with socio-economic deprivation …
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PREGNANCY, WOMEN’S MENTAL HEALTH AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION: A PARTICIPATORY QUALITATIVE STUDY
… and material factors. The local context of socio-economic deprivation is a significant influence on women’s mental health and service demand, capacity and resources. Recommendations are made in relation to community and service developments, staff support and training, and future research.
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A Comparative Analysis of Education Reform and its Impact on Socio-Economic Reform in the Twentieth Century
… between education policy and socio-economic disadvantage. Although the focus of the project is primarily the last four decades of the twentieth century, there is an initial consideration of immediate post-war discourses on poverty and education focusing on the impact that these had …
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Defying the odds? Identifying and understanding the relationship between health and resilience
… in health outcomes despite significant long-term economic deprivation (otherwise known as ‘defying the odds’). Such findings have previously been conceptualised in terms of ‘health resilience’. This research is the first to explore area-level ‘health resilience’ (captured by morbidity and …
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An evolutionary AI-based decision support system for urban regeneration planning
… districts suffering from high levels of socio-economic deprivation and sustainability problems is one of the key research areas in urban planning and regeneration. Subject to a wide range of social, economical and environmental factors, decision support for an optimal allocation of residential …
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Honor and the Southern lady: The persitence of antebellum ideology among elite Southern women, 1820-1877
… permanently changed elite white women's legal, economic and social status, gender relations and race relations. Southern honor and slavery were the social and economic basis of the hierarchical order of antebellum Southern life affecting women's lives and worldview. The war forced elite women to …
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A Study of the Influence of Selected Neighborhood Characteristics on Chicago Youth Homicide: 1970, 1980, 1990
… accounted for by the increase in social and economic deprivation. Youth homicide and firearm homicide rates were significantly related to poverty, joblessness, and the percentage of single males in a neighborhood. These characteristics had a significantly different effect on youth homicide …
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An examination of the disparate impact of neighborhood characteristics on routine and gang-involved gun violence
… of neighborhood characteristics, including socio-economic deprivation, residential turnover, and racial/ethnic composition on gun crime. There have been limited efforts, however, to examine the extent to which these effects might vary based on the nature of gun crime—particularly in communities …
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Extended living arrangements in Chile: An analysis of subfamilies
… household extension as a strategy to face economic deprivation, giving little attention to other factors affecting it, such as gender inequalities and changing needs for support over the life course. In this dissertation, I contribute to the understanding of extended households Chile …
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Confronting black low cost housing delivery in the Western Cape Metropolitan Area : a critical appraisal
… environmental degradation and the socio-economic deprivation of the households living within them. The Reconstruction and Development Programme and the National Housing Policy have recently been introduced by the new Government in response to this problem. The purpose of this study is to …
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The impact of a nurture group on an infant school: a longitudinal case study.
… that had a turbulent history in an area of socio-economic deprivation. Despite its rural setting, the school had all the issues facing some of the toughest inner city environments. This thesis is the culmination of an in-depth longitudinal case study looking at the nurture group and its impact on …
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Young people's perceptions and management of cyberbullying in secondary schools : an exploratory study using a socio-ecological lens
… students across two schools in areas of socio-economic deprivation. Qualitative data consists of transcriptions of the YPAR meetings, interview data and a focus group conducted by the YPAR group. Research into cyberbullying has been mainly quantitative to date. This study provides insight into …
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Sexual health in relation to religious beliefs: perceptions of young women living in Khayelitsha
… within the context of uncertainty and socio-economic deprivation. How their sexual health-decision making unfolds given the tensions that arise between religious expectations and socio-economic realities and how they perceive the partnership between religious organisations and public health …
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The significance of meaning-making, agency and social support: a narrative study of how poor women cope with perinatal loss
… death of their baby. In contexts of social and economic deprivation, perinatal loss often occurs alongside other difficulties which may affect and limit women's ability to make meaning. A narrative approach was used to explore how meaning-making functions in such contexts. In-depth interviews …
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Jugenddelinquenz im interethnischen Vergleich : Erklärungsmöglichkeiten delinquenten Verhaltens einheimischer und immigrierter Jugendlicher
This study examines the socio-economic conditions of youths from ethnic minority groups and compares the social correlates of delinquent behaviour in these ethnic groups. The aim of this analysis is to prove the generality of theories across ethnic boundaries explaining delinquency, and to identify …
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Social strain : a sociological analysis of violent crime rates in Europe
… produced by interrelations between socio-economic conditions, social stratification, institutional frameworks and socially structured access to opportunities. Secondly, to describe the form in which these components are articulated in particular contexts to generate criminogenic contexts. …
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An analysis of the philosophy of Paulo Freire for the purpose of structuring community education programmes
… to the other extreme where exists social and economic deprivation that impinges on the day to day efforts to live in a community that offers a meagre sense of fulfilment as well as constraints of human development and of self-actualization. The further education plan of this proposed community …
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"Propaganda for Democracy": The Vexed History of the Federal Theatre Project
… nonetheless, reflected a broadly rebellious, economically desperate, culturally inclusive popular spirit sparked by the Depression. Refuting charges that the FTP was a thinly veiled, subversive propaganda tool, the project’s leaders countered that its work was educational “propaganda for …
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Family Support Factors in African American Families That Promote Academic Achievement for Male Middle-School Students
… studied in spite of negative factors such as economic deprivation, parental unemployment, previous parental incarceration and lack of transportation.</p>
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Health experiences of women who are street-involved and use crack cocaine : inequity, oppression, and relations of power in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
… used to manage their health, and the social, economic, political, personal, and historical contexts that influenced these experiences. Data were collected over a seventeen month period and included a cross sectional survey (n=126), participant observations, and interviews (n=53). The women …
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