Socioeconomics

After initially assuming that obesity was a genetic disorder, my own thoughts and ideas came into question. Broady’s statement that obesity is linked to socioeconomic factors such as distance to supermarkets and income was developed into a truly sound argument. It only makes sense that these factors could affect one’s well being. It’s common knowledge that the price of healthy food options is dramatically higher…

differences in brain functioning, which predisposes people to a particular level of socioeconomic success (through, for example, impaired language development, especially an undeveloped vocabulary and lack of appropriate phonological awareness, which is crucial to learning how to read), and to a particular SES. Therefore, poverty regenerates itself by generations going round in circles in terms of their socioeconomic status. The feeling of insecurity towards the primary carer leads to impaired…

lower/welfare class. What they found was that by the age of 3, the children of upper class families were speaking about 300 more words per hour than those children of lower socioeconomic status. It is from this data that the term the 30 million word gap was coined. Risley and Hart found that by the age of four, the children in upper socioeconomic families would have experienced an average of 45 million words, whereas a four-year-old in a welfare family would have only experienced an average of…

Curriculum Development explains, the arduous quest to create a one-size-fits-all assessment, has ultimately disregarded many critical differences among students that only enforces cycles of disempowerment in the future. By placing students of low socioeconomic status and students of race in unfair contexts, all standardized tests do is disadvantage already disadvantaged groups. In fact, as the National Center for Fair and Open Testing reports in 2011, “Testing leads to standardized instruction…

There are many households with only one parent and it is more common to have the same sex parents. This is an issue that will likely continue to be studied since the results of this research has concluded that the make-up of the household and socioeconomic status during childhood, may be a factor in the onset of adult…

determine if Gender or Socioeconomic Status are associated to the frequencies of prosocial and aggressive acts made by a character. Much research has been done outlining the high rates of violence and aggression in Cartoons and the effects of viewing violence on a children’s behavior in the real world. Less research has been done regarding prosocial acts in the media, so both forms of behaviors are analyzed in this study. This study takes into account the gender and socioeconomic status of an…

but father involvement is not the causes of children’s behavioral changes. The study focused on father involvement and child problematic behavior at three, five and seven years old. Family socioeconomic status, father and mother’s mood, the relationship between mother and father, the number of siblings, ethnicity and gender are all included under consideration. Father involvement was measured with questionnaires for fathers, and the…

the book, Miss Jeannette Bivens, helps uncover Jeannette’s love for literature and journalism. Miss Bivens did not assume that Jeannette was “special” or had a learning disability solely based on her socioeconomic status. It is not uncommon for teachers to categorize children with a low socioeconomic status as special needs because they do not want to take the time to learn more about the student and understand how they can strengthen their weaknesses. Understanding what children experience when…

Numerous factors, including small sample size (76 mothers), little racial diversity (78% White or African American), little economic diversity (many mothers had a low socioeconomic status), enrollment in a parent-training program, and reliance on retrospective reporting, make it difficult to ascertain what populations these findings may be applicable to (Knox, Rosenberger, Sarwar, Mangewala, & Klag, 2015, p. 398). Despite…

A Biopsychosocial Model: Stroke This essay explores how stroke can be caused by referring to the biopsychosocial model and its strength and weakness is evaluated in terms to health. It also address how risk of getting stroke can be significantly decreased by changing our lifestyle behaviour. The links between broader aspects of health with biological or psychological aspect of health is also explored. The biopsychosocial (BPS) model explains that cause of an illness is due to complex interaction…