today in multilingual contexts, many parents prefer to rear their children in the dominant language rather than in their mother tongue. this phenomenon is widespread among native speakers of kalhuri dialect of the kurdish language in the multilingual context of iran, too. nevertheless, some studies have evidenced the privilege of bilinguals in learning an additional language though some others ...

The comparison of trends in ischaemic heart disease (IHD) mortality in different social classes is confounded by historical changes in diagnostic techniques and statistical classification, and possibly by different standards of diagnostic accuracy in the different social classes. The problems can be circumvented by taking advantage of the fact that in middle age (45 to 64) the IHD death rate is...

The relationship between NART performance and demographic variables was examined in a group of subjects free of neurologic or psychiatric disorder (n = 201). NART estimated IQ was significantly correlated with education, social class and age. The correlation between age and NART IQ was no longer significant after partialling out either education or social class. There was no evidence of a curvi...

Introduction Social scientists theorise about issues such as inequalities in health, educational achievement, criminal behaviour or the distribution of wealth. The starting point for theory should be a clear understanding of phenomena. Teaching social sciences at precollege level is a challenge in part because social phenomena almost always involve a number of categorisations in groups, such as...

Background The overall proportion of female physician is increasing worldwide. However, its ratio exhibits a substantial diversity among each member country of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). This study aimed to reveal the social factors of countries associated with the percentage of female physicians....

objective: one of the main cultural issues in universities is relationships between male and female students. due to the adverse consequences of this issue, explaining of the beyond the causes of friendship with opposite-sex, is one of the first steps in planning for youth issues. methods: this qualitative research was conducted based on content analysis. nineteen female university students wer...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To assess the influences related to social mobility, particularly health related behaviours, as one potential explanation for the social class variation in health among adults. DESIGN The study is based on questionnaire data from the Adolescent Health and Lifestyle Surveys of 1985, 1987, and 1989. SETTING The whole of Finland. PARTICIPANTS A representative sample of 8355 a...

Background: Prostitution and substance abuse are among the crucial social problems in women, which affect the quality of life. However, no study has yet investigated that prostitution and substance abuse affect which dimension(s) of quality of life. The current study aimed to compare different dimensions of quality of life among female sex workers with and without drug abuse. Methods: The rese...