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The rural SEC grid, which uses education and type of house (pucca, semi-pucca, and kaccha) as measures of socio-economic class, and segments rural India into 4 groups (R1, R2, R3, R4) This is based on the assumption that higher education leads to higher income thus higher consuming potential. But that this may not always be true.
A school's socioeconomic decile was recalculated by the Ministry of Education every five years, using data collected after each Census of Population and Dwellings.They were calculated between censuses for new schools and merged schools, and other schools may move up or down one decile with school openings, mergers and closures to ensure each decile contains 10 percent of all schools.
Illustration from a 1916 advertisement for a vocational school in the back of a US magazine. Education has been seen as a key to socioeconomic mobility, and the advertisement appealed to Americans' belief in the possibility of self-betterment as well as threatening the consequences of downward mobility in the great income inequality existing during the Industrial Revolution.
The middle class is the most contested of the three categories, the broad group of people in contemporary society who fall socio-economically between the lower and upper classes. [66] One example of the contest of this term is that in the United States "middle class" is applied very broadly and includes people who would elsewhere be considered ...
Providing one extra year of education to girls increases their wages by 10-20%. [8] This increase is 5% more than the corresponding returns on providing a boy with an extra year of schooling. [8] This individual monetary gain creates an increase in the overall economic productivity of a country.
The social market economy (SOME; German: soziale Marktwirtschaft), also called Rhine capitalism, Rhine-Alpine capitalism, the Rhenish model, and social capitalism, [1] is a socioeconomic model combining a free-market capitalist economic system alongside social policies and enough regulation to establish both fair competition within the market and generally a welfare state.
"Of these, 128,000 people are hospitalized and approximately 3,000 people die from foodborne illness each year." Here's what causes food poisoning, when you should be worried and what can be done ...
The concept of social metabolism has been used in historical research as a framework to describe the development of human societies over time. Particularly important in this field is the work done by the German historian Rolf Sieferle on the socio-ecological patterns of societies. Focusing on the energy dimension of social metabolism (i.e. the ...