Word: socio
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Abel hopes to replicate her findings in Sweden - with a bigger study population and richer data, including the socio-economic status of mothers. "Social class is one of the big, enduring predictors of risk of mental illness. The lower the social class the higher the risk. You're born with this risk," says Abel...
...prioritize restoring stability over protecting free speech. Media surrounding the issue has jumped to call the conflict ethnic violence and tribalism, which is understandable considering specific ethnic groups have been targeting each other. However, this characterization overlooks the fact that the violence in Kenya is the result of persisting socio-economic and land disputes. Instead of dismissing this as just another African election gone awry, or another case of African tribalism, understanding who and what lies behind the violence is the key to stopping it. Much of the election violence has been directed against people of the Kikuyu ethnic group...
...preliminary round of nominations from A.N.C. branch parties gave Zuma, the party's deputy president, a crushing lead over the incumbent, Thabo Mbeki, who is currently President of both the party and the country. An Ipsos Markinor Socio-Political Trends survey of 3,500 people taken in November and released on Saturday also showed 41% of South Africans think Zuma should succeed Mbeki as leader of their nation in 2009, when the constitution requires him to step down...
...from here?” Throughout, Gomes paints the teachings of Jesus in the radical light in which contemporaries would have viewed them, portraying Jesus as something of a socialist. Gomes doesn’t write in a vacuum, however, and he includes numerous mentions of current socio-political situations—the war in Iraq, Sept. 11, homophobia, and race relations—to convey how Jesus’s teachings apply to the modern world.Yet where Gomes’s book falls short is not in the message it presents, but in the way it presents it. Gomes...
...example, saluted the "calmed situation," but promised that considerably reinforced "police presence will be maintained for as long as necessary." Sarkozy also convened an urgent meeting of key cabinet members to discuss ways to prevent a renewal of attacks - and propose measures to address the complaints of discrimination and socio-economic disenfranchisement at the heart of anger in the projects. The government is also set to reveal what it has called a "Marshall Plan" for French projects - a name frequently used to describe the new housing drive rolled out by the previous administration, which itself was one of a long...