Another way to look at it is that nonsmokers in the highest social class have a higher rate of obesity (13.3%) than smokers in the lowest social class (13.1%).
She took a class in social entrepreneurship there, taught by Brent Freeman, CEO of Roozt, an online shopping platform that connects trendsetting, cause-oriented brands with online shoppers.
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Today is not only the start of the GOP Convention, but the start of classes at Syracuse University, where I teach a class on Social Welfare Policy to MPA students.
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The new class of social apps focused around media and lifestyle, combined with the increased social interactions surrounding them, will enable users to resonate with their brand in ways like never before.
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Money, which had really not featured in the British demarcation of social class, became very important.
In contrast, the current gentry liberals increasingly reflect the biases of their own social class.
"Distribution of inherited wealth is very unequal and correlated with social class, " he says.
"Not everyone who is coded as relatively high social class drives a luxury car, " Gore says.
But if it is, American Jews might want to rethink their loyalty to their social class.
Inflation destroys the middle class, the social equivalent of a levee system, and then the floods come.
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People with disabilities come from all walks of life, genders, every social class, and all religious traditions.
If you are a man in social class A, the highest group, your chance is about two in three.
The study found there was no difference in breastfeeding rates when the researchers looked at household income or social class.
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The inventors of the new scheme argue that social class depends mainly on a person's position in the labour market.
"This study really shows that people who identify as higher social class are more likely to admit unethical behavior, " he says.
Dr Phillips and his colleagues compared 58 diabetic children with 172 non-diabetic ones matched for age, sex, social class and pediatrician.
"Forty years ago there was a wider social mix of population in terms of age, lifestyle, work and social class, " the report said.
His progress up the ladder of the Klan was an attempt to climb out of the social class he had been born into.
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In this case the change intended was to that of a higher or lower social class than the individual perceived he normally belonged to.
In countries such as Britain and America a child's prospects depend more on its parents' social class than in egalitarian societies, according to OECD data.
Yes, a social media currency combined with a social class structure.
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Going out, a wide circle of acquaintances - cultural capital and social capital - are key factors in determining your social class, according to the survey.
Men's clothing no longer operated so clearly as a signifier of social class, but while these boundaries were being blurred, the differences between the sexes became more pronounced.
At present, the government monitors university intake on the basis of whether the students went to a state or private school, their social class and their home postcodes.
Although there was a significant difference in life expectancy depending on social class, with professional men living to 77 and unskilled manual labourers on average living to just under 69.
But it has not cracked the problem of inner-city poverty, nor the biggest social question of the age: how can an excluded social class find its way into the mainstream?
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When the Assembly Government launched Designed for Life back in 2005, its purpose and ambition was "to create world class healthcare and social services in a healthy, dynamic country by 2015".
The medieval and early modern social system was based on ideas of people being born into a certain social class and achieving maximum happiness by accepting the privileges and duties of their station.
The study also discovered that West Asian women were more likely to have pre-eclampsia as were those from a lower social class and those with gestational diabetes - the type which occurs during pregnancy.
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