Example sentences of "social and [adj] factor " in BNC.

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1 What should be said is that there is still a most definite need for research in some neglected , technical areas , but more particularly in integrating the social and economic factors as they occur in a local situation .
2 But the disorders can not be fully understood unless they are seen in the context of complex political , social and economic factors which together create a predisposition towards violent protest ’ ( para. 8.7 ) .
3 These and other habitualised forms of ‘ race-thinking ’ were further compounded in the fifties by social and economic factors which kept Blacks and Whites largely separate within their own sets of social networks and spaces , ‘ Crossing the line ’ was not merely a matter of breaking the boundaries of colour-based divisions in a figurative sense ; it was also often literally a matter of transgressing geographical boundaries : often with violent consequences .
4 Such dogmatic tendencies are often strengthened by social and economic factors .
5 The disability movement 's challenge to the medicalisation of people with impairments is relevant to older people , as it is an understanding of how social and economic factors disable people .
6 The division seems almost complete : classical criminology focused entirely on the causal-corrective significance of the criminal justice system and ignored individual , social and economic factors ; positivist criminology focused almost entirely on the causal significance of individual , social and economic factors and ignored the criminal justice system .
7 The division seems almost complete : classical criminology focused entirely on the causal-corrective significance of the criminal justice system and ignored individual , social and economic factors ; positivist criminology focused almost entirely on the causal significance of individual , social and economic factors and ignored the criminal justice system .
8 We saw in Chapter 1 that there was no logical reason for classical criminology 's omission of individual , social and economic factors .
9 When they considered social and economic factors they saw themselves as detached scientists just ‘ presenting the facts ’ and not ( as Taft ( 1942 , p. 634 ) put it ) aiming ‘ to determine what is the major social good ’ .
10 It is tempting to conclude that perhaps there could be a complementary relationship between positivist and classical criminology — one providing the focus on individual , social and economic factors , the other on penal and legal ones .
11 The workshops included an analysis of the social and economic factors affecting Bolivia , in particular its marginalised Quechua-speaking communities .
12 Changes in these immediate precursors of child-bearing or ‘ proximate ’ variables provide one level of analysis and measurement ( Bongaarts and Potter 1983 ) and point the way to the more remote social and economic factors , such as costs of children , desired family size , and their variation between social groups , which we will look at in section 4.3 .
13 As well as demographic trends these include such social and economic factors as alternative opportunities for employment and the supply of places .
14 The obstacles to appropriate preconceptual and conceptual care of women in deprived urban areas such as ours are great ; a pregnancy may be a welcome but unplanned event and many social and economic factors are beyond individual control .
15 Results of other research on 10 WFS countries of Sub-Sahara Africa also showed that , " It ( the effect of maternal age of infant mortality ) is associated with selectivity in respect to social and economic factors , though it is principally and directly an effect of physiological determinants " .
16 In the opinion of some scholars , the effect of maternal age upon child mortality is mediated by social and economic factors .
17 The association of maternal age and parity or birth order with child health and mortality reflects in part the relationship of these two demographic attributes to social and economic factors .
18 The surveys will enable a more detailed explanatory model of the speech-community to be achieved than has previously been possible , with relevant linkages to social and economic factors , population structure and trends , and key public institutions such as the media , education and administration .
19 I 'm saying to Glasgow city council that I think the reason for the poor health of its people is due to factors outwith health services and more to do with social and economic factors such as unemployment and bad housing . ’
20 But we can not estimate so reliably how many of these will seek university places in 17 or 18 years ' time since this will be affected so much by changeable social and economic factors .
21 Worse still , he implies that both the Needleman study and the more recent one by Bill Yule and Richard Lansdown provide evidence that a child 's lead content has more influences on intelligence and behaviour than do social and other factors .
22 The effects of reproductive patterns upon maternal and child health and on their general well-being are modified by a number of social and other factors , among which are the mother 's education , father 's education , occupation and income , and mother 's residence as to rural or urban place , but the mother 's education is by far the most powerful .
23 largely explained by social and demographic factors , particularly the areas in which they live .
24 It characterises movers and movements to look at the propensity and timing of moves in relation to some of the social and demographic factors underlying geographic movement .
25 Since housing tenure has been found to be particularly strongly associated with wider social and demographic factors , the role of tenure will receive particular attention .
26 Geographic , demographic , social and financial factors combine in many areas of the country , to ensure that institutions of 150+ represent not only an unrealistic goal but an unattainable one too .
27 Other social and political factors intrude into the flow , and reception , of communication and these may be quite powerful in influencing public perceptions of events reported by the media .
28 As a consequence , the role of social and political factors in the processes of development are substantially downplayed , and the key sequence is ( p. 168 ) ‘ authoritarian family — literacy — fall in mortality rate — fall in fertility rate — ( at last ) rise in the standard of living ’ .
29 They point out that in the history of science it is clear that social and political factors play a great part in determining which theories are held on to and which are rejected ; certainly they play at least as great a part as the degree to which a theory is seen as having evidential support .
30 Therefore , whereas prescribing budgets will inevitably be set in the aggregate , taking into account local social and epidemiological factors , both PACT and formularies are much more likely to lead the GP to consider why a particular drug , and not an alternative including no drug , should be given in a particular instance .
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