News tagged with social inequalities
Study shows income inequality a key factor in high US teen births
New research reveals the surprising economics behind the high U.S. teen birth rates, and why Texas teens are giving birth at triple the rate of Massachusetts youth: high income inequality and low opportunity cost.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 05, 2012 |
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Do we no longer care about the collective good?
The Transformation of Solidarity, a book co-edited by University of Queensland sociologist Dr Mara Yerkes, tackles the subject of globalisation of national economies and societies where we put a high value ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Feb 06, 2012 |
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New study supports link between inequality and crime
(PhysOrg.com) -- Compelling new evidence of a link between inequality and crime in England invites reconsideration of the individualistic 'tough on crime' stances of recent New Labour and Conservative governments - according ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 19, 2012 |
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Study: New job trends reproducing old forms of gender inequality
Jobs that come with large paychecks but long work hours are slowing the gains women have made since the late 70s in narrowing the gender wage gap.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 21, 2011 |
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New atlas takes a graphic approach to global inequalities
In 2005, the UC Atlas of Global Inequality went online at UC Santa Cruz. The site uses downloadable maps and graphics allowing students to explore and research various inequalities around the world.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 11, 2011 |
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Research finds economic sector disinterested in reports about social and health inequalities
(PhysOrg.com) -- A report just published by the World Health Organisation from a public health researcher at the University of Otago, Wellington shows that while New Zealand has developed innovative annual Social Reports, ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Feb 03, 2011 |
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Britain at political crossroads: study
The National Centre for Social Research today released its latest British Social Attitudes report, its landmark study of the public's attitudes and values, published annually for almost thirty years.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 13, 2010 |
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Shanghai teenagers are world's smartest
Teenagers from the Chinese city of Shanghai have the best education in the world, according to a major international study of standards in in maths, science and literacy released Tuesday.
Dec 07, 2010 |
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Skin color linked to social inequality in contemporary Mexico, study shows
Despite the popular, state-sponsored ideology that denies the existence of prejudice based on racial or skin color differences in Mexico, a new study from The University of Texas at Austin provides evidence of profound social ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 06, 2010 |
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The rich have more money but the poor are rich in heart: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- The world could one day be an economically equal place, if the lower-income population have anything to do with it. In an interesting yet disheartening series of socioeconomic experiments, led by a team of ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 18, 2010 |
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Spanish study: Women live longer but in worse condition
Although women have a longer life expectancy, they experience a much greater prevalence of disability in old age than men do. This is the main conclusion of the study published in the latest issue of the Journal of ...
Jul 02, 2010 |
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Canadians lead longer, healthier lives than Americans
Compared to their neighbours south of the border, Canadians live longer, healthier lives. Research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Population Health Metrics has found this disparity between the two countr ...
Apr 29, 2010 |
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Providing Access to the Web is Not Enough
(PhysOrg.com) -- Even among college freshmen and digital natives -- those young adults who grew up with the Internet -- higher-level Internet skills and more sophisticated Internet usage still strongly correspond to socioeconomic ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 30, 2010 |
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Mad as hell? New discoveries about the experience of anger
Younger people, those with children and less-educated individuals are more likely to experience anger, according to new UofT research that examines one of the most common negative emotions in society.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 30, 2009 |
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'Technology' plays large role in wealth inheritance
A new study reveals the important role inherited wealth plays in sustaining economic inequality in small scale societies. A team of 26 anthropologists, statisticians, and economists based at the Santa Fe Institute in New ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 30, 2009 |
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