social disadvantage
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsocialanddisadvantage
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social
adjective
uk/ˈsəʊ.ʃəl/us/ˈsoʊ.ʃəl/
relating to activities in which you meet and spend time with other people and that happen during the time when you are ...
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disadvantage
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌdɪs.ədˈvɑːn.tɪdʒ/us/ˌdɪs.ədˈvæn.t̬ɪdʒ/
a condition or situation that causes problems, especially one that causes something or someone to be less successful than other things ...
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(Definition ofsocialanddisadvantagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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With one exception, boys from families characterized bysocialdisadvantageand frequent transition were also at significant risk for each event in the trajectory.
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We therefore used an ordinalsocialdisadvantagemeasure, summing the above items.
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These increased rates of depressive conditions were no longer apparent after controlling for measures ofsocialdisadvantage, stress and isolation.
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It provides a bridge between the public health and social exclusion agenda, steering both towards interventions targeted at groups vulnerable tosocialdisadvantage.
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On this model, disability is a form ofsocialdisadvantagesuffered in addition to one's impairment.
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It is also clear that psychiatric problems in children are themselves associated withsocialdisadvantageand poverty.
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Each event in the sequence shared a common process of disrupted family process plus frequent family transitions and markedsocialdisadvantage.
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Bothsocialdisadvantageand frequent family transitions made unique and significant contributions to risk of chronic offending.
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The family lived in conditions of extremesocialdisadvantage, including currently having a council house infested with rats.
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First, girls with early conduct problems tended to come from family backgrounds characterized by higher rates ofsocialdisadvantage, family change, and punitive childrearing practices.
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In the present article, we hypothesized thatsocialdisadvantageand family transition would significantly correlate with early onset and status as a chronic offender.
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Such snares can compromise the ability to make a successful transition to adulthood, impair health, and lead tosocialdisadvantage.
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It was anticipated that children living in families with high levels ofsocialdisadvantagewould be more vulnerable to the effects of noise.
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More recently, social disorganization theory has focused on informal control as the mediating factor betweensocialdisadvantageand crime.
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This relationship can be a manifestation of inherent biological immaturity orsocialdisadvantagegenerally associated with teenage fertility and infant care.
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There is no room for the distinction between deserved and undeservedsocialdisadvantagethat is pivotal to contemporary philosophical theories of egalitarianism.
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We therefore included assessment of the effect ofsocialdisadvantagein all relevant analyses.
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Thesocialdisadvantagethat many prisoners experience also affects their families, particularly children, as well as the community from which they originate.
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Moreover, this economic andsocialdisadvantagewas sufficient to explain nearly all the association between lone motherhood and depression.
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This article is concerned with the latter: social and community finance initiatives that are aimed at solvingsocialdisadvantagethrough community, social and individual enterprise.
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