Sentence examples for material disadvantages from inspiring English sources

No wonder Apted's series, with its lesson that children learn social scripts early on, and that these can be more inhibiting than material disadvantages, stuck in Merton's head.

Pym portrays singleness as an identity rather than an absence, one that compensates for its social and material disadvantages by facilitating an unusually rich imaginative existence.

It is critical (and somewhat conspiratorial) about how male doctoring and medical technology hurt women.At the risk of over-labelling, you could say that Ms Greer is both an "equality" feminist and a "difference" feminist: being a woman should not mean material disadvantages (unequal pay; unshared housework); yet women ought not to have to stifle or demean their femininity either.

In practice, both modes of politics—addressing material disadvantages and marginalized identities and statuses are required to achieve greater equality across lines of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexuality, and class, not least because many individuals stand at the intersection of these different categories and suffer multiple forms of marginalization.

The use of a synthetic index rather than using independent ecological socio-economic measures allows us to represent an accumulation of social and material disadvantages [ 45] and these kinds of indexes are more useful to lead population interventions [ 27].

Depression was also an important risk factor to manage in this intervention program, as depressive symptoms are frequent among Latin-American elderly; women show higher percentages than men, partly because, in the region studied, women were more exposed to social and material disadvantages during their life course than men (Alvarado et al 2007).

Presumably both stress and material disadvantage are important causes of ill health among the poor.

"Material disadvantage is more pronounced at the bottom of society but is far more widespread than people imagine," he says.

To be born female or gay in most African countries is still to be faced with a lifetime of cultural and material disadvantage.

To raise issues of identity and belonging is not to lay the blame for racism at the door of the victim, nor is it to ignore the material disadvantage experienced in Bradford, Oldham or Burnley.

On the other hand, if material disadvantage is a major cause of ill health among the poor, then extensive changes in the environment in which the poor live -- for example, cleaner buildings and more parks -- are needed.