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Sociology Department Chair Robert J. Sampson and UCLA Sociology Professor Robert D. Mare have begun a study attempting to determine whether mixed-income neighborhoods in Chicago and Los Angeles provide better environments for raising children than neighborhoods that are socio-economically homogeneous...
Additionally, Sampson said that municipalities and institutions might spur families living in low-income areas to leave their socio-economically homogeneous community by either physically destroy the existing facilities or provide vouchers to incentivize their relocation...
Life expectancy disparities among people of different socio-economic, geographic, and racial backgrounds can be explained by different modifiable habits and health issues, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health reported last month...
Modern malaria control, however, cannot be accomplished by money alone. Successfully combating the injustice of malaria requires cooperation across the lines that divide society—lines like religion, ethnicity, socio-economic status, and gender. In countries across Africa, groups are recognizing this need to work with one another in order to make real progress on eradicating the disease. In Mozambique, Together Against Malaria brings Christian and Muslim leaders together to utilize religious infrastructure to improve access to malaria prevention measures. In Nigeria the same is being done by the Nigerian Inter-faith Action Association, which will help distribute...
...thinking. It serves as a counterweight to the kind of academic chauvinism that puts forth the risky proposition that some degrees are more important than others. An avid student of the Eurocentric, so-called classical model of Western education would be wildly ill-equipped to understand the broad, socio-cultural forces that shape current events in the national and international spheres. Purposely ignoring the experiences of non-Western peoples would be like looking at the world with one eye closed—with a massive blind spot and no depth perception...