Socioeconomics

What should also be taken into consideration is whether child abuse is being reported of parents from high socioeconomic status as wealthier families have access to resources that can decrease the risk of child abuse being exposed in their families. Hence, there is not enough data reported that would help to identify potential child abusers from higher socioeconomic…

Career development is the most essential aspect of human development. According to Donald Super, career development is a life-long process that consist of multiple roles and transitions of career behaviors from birth to death. Moreover, career behaviors occur in different stages. For instance, Super identified factors regarding to career behaviors in adolescents and young adults. These factors include planfulness, exploration, information, decision- making, and reality orientation (Herr, 1997).…

Introduction: The most recent downturn in the economy has made it evident that the economic climate can have an effect on families. The achievement gap stretches far beyond the classroom and is deeply rooted in socioeconomic obstacles that we need to address and failing to adequately do so only makes a teacher’s job more difficult. The reality is that children who are sick, tired, hungry and scared are not ready to learn. Parents who are unable to adequately provide for, or do not possess the…

The socioeconomic divide exists to this day. In the American Life Podcast, the school Michael Brown went to at Normandy, one of the poorest cities in Missouri, has a large population of lower-income Black people. In January of 2013, Normandy lost its accreditation from the state due to its lack of graduating students and school organization. Therefore, Missouri made a transfer law that gave the students permission to transfer to a nearby accredited school for free but Normandy only provided one…

In both The New Jim Crow and The Jail a large topic of discussion is the process of utilizing jailing and imprisonment as a means of controlling certain segments of the population. Both books highlighted the fact that the lowest class of people (rabble being the term used in The Jail) typically commit petty crimes, minor crimes and for which the punishment is usually just a small fine or short term of imprisonment; such as possession of cannabis, burglary and theft, prostitution, vandalism, etc.…

economic circumstances can deter a education within a private sector of schooling (Rothman, 2003). From this data (Figure 2), it is observable that from 100 public school students that were surveyed, majority of the students were of the middle socioeconomic class, with a large quantity of lower, 21 students, and 1 lower middle-class, 1 upper class student. Additionally, this questions the equity of school choice as there is an evident divide between the ability…

The etiological agent of Gonorrhea is Neisseria gonorrhoeae, affects both sexually active males and females of all ages. The chain of transmission of Neisseria gonorrhoeae is by direct sexual contact via vaginal, anal, oral intercourse, or from a mother to their baby, during childbirth. Contact of infectious exudates from mucous membranes of an infected human creates a passageway from one human to another human and/or partner. Gonorrhea is listed as a sexually transmitted disease (STD) and is…

shifts from racial discrimination in church environments to socioeconomic discrimination. It is brought to the reader’s attention that many of the predominantly white churches are located in areas that are predominantly white and nonetheless, very wealthy. These areas are generally inaccessible to people of lower classes and income, making adequately diversifying white inner-city churches extremely difficult. A further example of socioeconomic discrimination was brought to the reader’s attention…

Acceptance” (2009), Derek A. Kreager and Jeremy Staff research the sexual double standard by measuring the social status of the sexually permissive youth. They came up with the hypothesis that sexual behaviors affect peer status and that gender and socioeconomic origin may influence this. Using a network approach with data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health’s first two student surveys. They evaluated report numbers of lifetime sexual partners, involvement in “nonromantic”…

concept in their television series, while one episode in particular represents this ideology more than any other. Michael Scott, played by the hilarious and notoriously good actor, Steve Carrel, visits a third grade class of kids living in a poor socioeconomic area filled with many working class citizens, while he was there he makes a legendary charitable promise to pay for their college education…