The phrase "disadvantageous group" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a group of individuals who face disadvantages or hardships compared to others.
Example: "The study focused on the challenges faced by the disadvantageous group in accessing education and healthcare."
Alternatives: "underprivileged group" or "marginalized group."
It was instrumental to upgrade children belonging to the disadvantageous group to higher SES level, thus increasing their intergenerational income mobility [ 22].
Therefore, a school-based or national sealant preventive programme is needed to be organized and implemented in Greece, with special emphasis on increasing the knowledge and awareness of dentists and the public on sealant usefulness in order to benefit all children but mainly the most disadvantageous group of children that need it the most.
Children in low income households are more likely to have free health insurance, since the free health insurance program is targeted at the poor and disadvantageous groups.
(Rawls 1971: 7) Indirect discrimination is structural when the rules and norms of society consistently produce disproportionately disadvantageous outcomes for the members of a certain group, relative to the other groups in society, the outcomes are unjust to the members of the disadvantaged group, and the production of the outcomes is to be explained by the group membership of those individuals.
The traits labeled cooperative and altruistic typically are selectively disadvantageous within the groups and require the differential productivity of groups to evolve in the total population.
Moreover, when Hamilton translated his own inclusive fitness theory in terms of the Price equation, he realized that altruism expressed among kin is selectively disadvantageous within kin groups and evolves only by virtue of the differential contribution of kin groups to the total population.
Many debates over civil rights issues turn on assumptions about the scope and effects of existing discrimination (i.e., objectionable disadvantageous treatment) against particular groups.
There must also be a linkage between membership in the group and the disadvantageous outcomes: group membership must help explain why the disproportionately disadvantageous outcomes fall where they do.
Also note that the idea of structural discrimination does not presuppose that, whenever the rules of society's major institutions consistently produce disproportionately disadvantageous results for a salient group such as women or racial minorities, structural discrimination thereby exists.
At these high conversions unreacted secondary amines become trapped in the glassy network and these groups may result in disadvantageous properties of the final material.
In this setting, increasing the variance in infection between mating groups will necessarily be disadvantageous for the spread of infection, because it is associated with a more homogeneous infection within demes and hence a reduced frequency of incompatible matings.
