Example sentences of "and economic conditions " in BNC.
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| 1 | The need to avoid bad history is the reason the debate over the teaching of history in schools is so important : what is the proper balance between traditional concerns with royalty and battles as against the need to understand the great political movements of our time and the social and economic conditions which spawned them ? |
| 2 | E. D. Vinogradoff has shown how local agrarian social and economic conditions shaped the collective political behaviour of peasants elected to the Fourth State Duma . |
| 3 | We see a range of existing social services , entrenched to varying degrees in institutional form , reflecting to varying degrees needs and economic conditions which have passed or are passing away . |
| 4 | An implication , of course , is not only that marriage and the family have taken a great variety of forms , but that when political and economic conditions change in the future they will continue to change . |
| 5 | Even though the specific predictions of Engels might not be endorsed by modern anthropologists they would nearly all subscribe to the general thesis that as political and economic conditions change , so will marriage and the family change , and this conclusion is apparently still seen as shocking . |
| 6 | It is difficult to assess whether or not unemployment and economic conditions were vital to the decline in the size of working-class families , or whether the prospect of purchasing new consumer goods conditioned the responses of the working classes . |
| 7 | Sewel 's study ( 13 ) into the economic and social effects of centralised education in the rural areas of the Highlands and Islands found that ( a ) the structure of secondary school provision was not a crucial factor in migration , although the types of organisation most favoured by parents were the local two-year comprehensive school and the all-through comprehensive , located in the West , and ( h ) expectations and aspirations of both parents and pupils tended to be influenced by general social and economic conditions rather than specifically educational considerations . |
| 8 | Even the truly independent are dependent on social and economic conditions , which are unfavourable to them . |
| 9 | He believes that under these conditions of choice , which he describes as the original position , there is only one set of principles which can be rationally chosen to govern a society enjoying favourable social and economic conditions . |
| 10 | As more and more peoples have become involved in the modern world , the perception of the unevenness of social and economic conditions has grown more extreme . |
| 11 | Of course vaccines alone will not prevent child mortality caused by infectious diseases ; better social and economic conditions , and better education about prevention play a major part , as they did in industrialised countries about a century ago . |
| 12 | Geographical comparison of patterns of lawbreaking sometimes throws light on more general differences in social and economic conditions . |
| 13 | Here a combination of favourable ecological and economic conditions , at a particular historical moment , appears to have made this achievement possible . |
| 14 | A recent review of the IQ debate , commissioned by the Swann inquiry , concluded that the largest variation in IQ scores was caused by the social and economic conditions under which children grew up and pointed out , ‘ If , therefore , we wish to affect the IQ scores of children from ethnic minorities , or indeed their school performance , we might make a start by improving the social and economic circumstances of their families ’ ( Mackintosh and Mascie-Taylor , 1985 , p. 148 ) . |
| 15 | Lott quotes Grady : ‘ An awareness of the different social and economic conditions for women and men can not be left to sociologists if psychology is to maintain its integrity as a science ’ ( 1985 : 160 ) . |
| 16 | On the other hand , there is clear evidence that social and economic conditions are critical to the well being of children ( Graham , 1988 ) . |
| 17 | So although positivist criminology did concern itself with social and economic conditions , in a way that classical criminology did not , it mostly ended up just as timid-looking as far as drawing ‘ corrective ’ conclusions was concerned . |
| 18 | Behind both we may , if we wish ( and many do ) , suggest causal relationships between such ideas and changing social and economic conditions and the supposed needs of dominant social classes . |
| 19 | Examining print and broadcast media , as well as linguistic and cultural diversity , the contributors provide a broad international sampling of case studies spanning a variety of ethnic minorities and countries , each representing a different set of cultural , political and economic conditions . |
| 20 | Examining print and broadcast media , as well as linguistic and cultural diversity , the contributors provide a broad international sampling of case studies spanning a variety of ethnic minorities and countries , each representing a different set of cultural , political and economic conditions . |
| 21 | The Consorzio Venezia Nuova is also involved in the recently formed ‘ North-East Association ’ , set up to monitor and improve environmental , ecological and economic conditions in the Adriatic Sea . |
| 22 | The Fabians , Sidney and Beatrice Webb in particular , devoted themselves to the analysis of social and economic conditions . |
| 23 | The Webbs explain that their original definition , relating the trade unions ' function to conditions of employment , implied that trade unions had always contemplated a perpetual continuance of the capitalist or wage system , whereas they had at various dates during the past century at any rate frequently had aspirations towards a revolutionary change in social and economic conditions . |
| 24 | This did not lead him to question the principle of majority decisions ; but it did lead him to pay attention to the social , cultural and economic conditions in which the will of all , or the will of the majority , would be more rather than less likely to coincide with " the general will " , by which Rousseau meant what all of us would will if we thought of ourselves not as private individuals but as citizens identifying ourselves with the good of the community . |
| 25 | One of the most critical problems for organizations in designing well and competitively is their response or lack of response to change and , more specifically , to rates of change in markets ' technical and economic conditions . |
| 26 | Many current government programmes reflect major attempts to improve social and economic conditions in an increasingly complex society . |
| 27 | Third , the success of the revolution depended on the presence not only of the appropriate ‘ objective ’ social and economic conditions , but of the necessary ‘ subjective ’ conditions : the organization of the proletariat into a class-conscious revolutionary movement . |
| 28 | Only by improving social and economic conditions can good health be achieved ( WHO , 1978 ) . |
| 29 | Other variables including political decisions and labour market and economic conditions are also important . |
| 30 | On his return to Britain he entered the congregational ministry in the bleak Lancashire mill town of Colne where he was deeply affected by the social and economic conditions which industrial society imposed upon his flock . |