More than one billion Muslims are fasting every year in the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, Ramadan. In addition to abstaining from food and drink every day between sunrise and sunset, many believers participate more ...
Social Sciences
Mar 13, 2023
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A new global study, which takes a gender-sensitive approach, has found that a mother's educational status plays an increasingly important role in shaping their children's educational status, while the importance of the father's ...
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Mar 8, 2023
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Social mobility refers to the movement of individuals from one socio-economic strata to another, followed by a change in their social status. In today's world, social mobility is largely driven by personal motivation, education, ...
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Feb 13, 2023
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Customers feel good about a company when its representatives make decisions in their favor, such as approving their loan application or gold member status. But when an algorithm reaches the same favorable conclusion, those ...
Social Sciences
Jan 13, 2023
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Events like the riots in Brazil, the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection two years before it and the mass shooting at the Colorado LGBTQ nightclub each occurred after certain groups repeatedly directed dangerous rhetoric against others. ...
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Jan 12, 2023
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An online search of "how to be a man" leads to nearly 130 million hits and over 12 million videos. Many of these promise hacks or some "big secret" to attain the pinnacle of masculinity. Spend enough time looking through ...
Social Sciences
Oct 28, 2022
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Women in high-status, senior positions aren't trusted by the people they work with, according to a new study from The Australian National University (ANU).
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Oct 21, 2022
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In medieval Norway, high status individuals tended to be taller and to have stronger bones, possibly as a result of a favorable lifestyle, according to a study published October 19, 2022, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE ...
Archaeology
Oct 19, 2022
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Immigrants' political power is on the rise in the United States.
Social Sciences
Oct 12, 2022
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Felipe Dias grew up in a working-class neighborhood in São Paulo, Brazil's largest city, and his parents worked multiple jobs to send him to a private school. He couldn't help but notice the contrast in social status between ...
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Oct 3, 2022
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