These difficulties - not to mention social differences - make comparison of crime rates between countries difficult.
Social differences are coming back to haunt the fighters, too.
But although cultural and social differences may play a role in the increase in attacks, defections by Afghan security, sometimes motivated by economic reasons, play a far more significant part in the green-on-blue attacks.
It represents a perception that such differences have some social significance-primarily because of perceived cultural differences though these are frequently associated with forms of structural differentiation.
Furthermore, researchers have repeatedly concluded that gender differences in social-emotional and cognitive skills have been greatly exaggerated.
Paying too much attention to rich-world worries about differences in social norms runs the risk of perpetuating them.
Different attitudes to personal morality in politics are rooted in social and even religious differences, which may soon become starker.
My research over the past twenty years with hundreds of boys and girls throughout adolescence finds no gender differences in social-emotional needs and skills.
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, in a speech at Yale-NUS's launch last year, labeled the collaboration a "complicated project" because of "differences in social and political contexts" but said the city-state is constantly seeking to change and evolve.
Moreover, differences among the Social Democrats on economic and social policy, hitherto papered over, are starting to emerge more clearly.
The most compelling discussion in that Psychology Today post is the note on the ethical duties of social scientists when studying group differences that can have harmful effects on the people studied.
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By doctoring authentic customer content to make it more uniform, a brand dismisses the tremendous diversity of people, tones, life phases, geographies, and preferences that make up the rich social web and the cultural differences between genders, generations, and geographies.
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When it comes to differences between countries, social cohesion plays a major role.
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Several studies have revealed significant differences in psycho-social development between children whose mothers had participated in MOCEP and those who had not.
In recent columns I have discussed the importance of corporate citizenship and corporate social responsibility, teasing out the differences and pointing the way for a new role for corporations in a new century.
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These social cultural adaptations for females and differences in presentation of ASD are being researched and studied almost entirely in countries outside of the US, per the identified research in your analysis, in the link for for the research by Gould from the Lorna Wing Research organization in the UK, Simon Baron Cohen in the UK, and clinical observation by Tony Atwood in Australia.
Criminality, like any other behavior, is learned from others in social settings and thus behavior varies with differences in association.
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The main differences between areas was likely to be social and economic.
My attention was caught yesterday by a Time.com post about a new study about differences in how men and women use social media.
With tech companies chasing hot technologies like smartphones and social networking, rivals are increasingly looking to settle their differences in court.
Free-marketeers and social conservatives may find it harder to put their philosophical differences aside now they are in power than when they were an unlikely combination in the fight against Clintonism.
"It's an intriguing social-science puzzle as to why we are seeing the differences, " he said.
Labour will point to issues like the social chapter and the national minimum wage to show the huge differences between the two parties.
Search expert John Battelle said in his blog post that social search would mean little until Facebook and Google settled their differences and offered consumers what they really wanted - Facebook data integrated with Google's search.
Looking at the two top countries - Finland and South Korea - the report says that there are many big differences, but the common factor is a shared social belief in the importance of education and its "underlying moral purpose".
The ruling comes a day after the Roman Catholic church found new hope in its newly elected Pope Francis, formerly known as Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina, a moderate Jesuit known for bridging the differences between conservatives and reformers and being liberal on social justice.
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Religious differences harbour potential conflict and territorial disputes are aggravated by social and economic imbalances.
Perhaps these polls reflect other social issues like abortion, gay marriage and immigration, where the differences between the candidates are polarized, thanks to party litmus tests.
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.
Music's potential to surmount individual differences is reason enough for our ensemble to continue to enact social compassion and our proud belief in equality to our audiences, onstage and off.
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