Cities as unequal opportunities for good health
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Unequal Opportunities and Social Inheritance
Ideology and myth do not die easily. Even with decades of cumulative social scientific evidence to the contrary, many stubbornly believe that we live in a land of equal opportunities. We have witnessed a half century of educational expansion and social reform and, yet, individuals’ life chances remain as powerfully determined by their social origins as in the epoch of our grandfathers. This is ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Epidemiology
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2474-7882
DOI: 10.1097/01.ee9.0000606988.28047.09