INTRODUCTION We apply capital interplay theory to health inequalities in Switzerland by investigating the interconnected effects of parental cultural, economic and social capitals and personal educational stream on the self-rated health of young Swiss men who live with their parents. METHODS We apply logistic regression modelling to self-rated health in original cross-sectional survey data co...

physical self-concept or perception of physical self is one of the main factors and properties of perception of one’s identity, especially of the youth which has recently been the center of attention of experts in different branches of humanities and social sciences. in fact, perception of body can be considered one of the most important factors that inevitably influence many of our social rela...

Unlike UML and some ER versions, ORM currently allows a fact type to be objectified only if it either has a spanning uniqueness constraint or is a 1:1 binary fact type. This article argues that this restriction should be relaxed, and replaced by a modeling guideline that allows some n-ary associations to be objectified even if their longest uniqueness constraint spans n-1 roles. The pros and co...

In this article, we describe an integrated theoretical approach for promoting resistance to the system of sexual objectification. Drawing from system justification and objectification theories, we propose a two-arm approach that would harness the system justification motive and adjust the lens of self-objectification in order to facilitate social change. We suggest that it is necessary to frame...

In the global phenomenon of widening participation policy in higher education, lower retention rates for students from less advantaged socio-economic circumstances have potential to undermine the social inclusion agenda of HE. This might be an issue in Europe but is not necessarily the case elsewhere. In this paper we consider statistical data on Australian university students from underreprese...

the purpose of this paper was to measure the social capital of the medical students of mashhad medical sciences university in the place they lived (their neighborhood), and the factors affecting it. the statistical universe was the university with a total of 5383 students. the sample was 244. the sampling was done using the systematic classification method, the classes being the faculty and sex...

The aim of this paper is investigate the extent to which monetary and non-monetary social background factors explain intergenerational educational attainment in Denmark. The main hypothesis tested is that non-monetary social background factors (cultural, social, and cognitive parental resources) are particularly important relative to economic factors within the institutional context of the comp...