Many researchers have observed a steady decline of attitudes toward science in middle and high school, resulting in a decreasing number of students who pursue science at the college level (Simpson and Oliver, 1990; Gibson and Chase, 2002; Tai et al., 2006; Martin et al., 2007).
Equal rights legislation, the end of legal segregation, the recent presidency of Barack Obama, and the overall decline of blatantly racist attitudes — the recent uptick notwithstanding — all contribute to a worldview in which it's easier to ignore the role race plays in society.
It indicates the decline of insular, nationalist attitudes which championed locally-made "turbo folk".
The difference in the way first and fifth year students of Makerere University College of Health Sciences conceptualized professionalism was suggestive of the decline in attitude that occurs during medical education.
If this were the case, such outliers might obscure unchanged attitudes or an overall decline in attitudes of the majority of students.
No one can doubt that changes in social behaviour and sexual attitude, the decline of deference and remarkable advances in medicine, communication and engineering have contributed to an improved wellbeing in the lives of many.
Traditionally two kinds of informed choices are distinguished: sufficient decision-relevant knowledge combined with either positive attitudes and acceptance of the preventive measure or negative attitudes and a decline of the preventive measure [ 17].
The dynamics of unemployment in Oman may be attributed to a number of reasons, among which are the slow growth of the economy due to oil price decline and the attitude of graduates towards the workplace.
We have been facing a change in attitudes and a decline of interest in Japan as a nation".
The real reason there were more unwed mothers, Yellen and Akerlof argued, was a change in social attitudes, particularly the decline of "shotgun marriages".
