Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or involving both social and economic factors.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
social andeconomic factors.
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- adjective involving social as well as economic factors
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Examples
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And working a full-time unpaid job tends to limit the applicants to a certain socioeconomic class (which may affect diversity as well).
Special Guest Post: Zetta Elliott on the Myth of Meritocracy 2010
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Are certain socioeconomic climates more or less poised to give birth to recession — and what sort of political positionalities or modes of thought find themselves competing to “solve” recessive crises?
Cultures of Recession Graduate Conference at Duke University « Gerry Canavan 2009
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Persistent ethnic disparities in socioeconomic status add to a sense of “otherness” felt by minorities outside the economic mainstream.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Matt Welch on the Immigration Law 2010
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To turn the point around, an ever-increasing number of American voters around or above the median in socioeconomic standing will be brown people.
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Henry Louis Gates (yes, the Harvard professor and friend of Obama who mouthed off to Cambridge police) made an argument that there is a link between black people rising in socioeconomic status and black people owning their own homes.
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Persistent ethnic disparities in socioeconomic status add to a sense of “otherness” felt by minorities outside the economic mainstream.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Matt Welch on the Immigration Law 2010
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The findings were not explained by differences in socioeconomic status, health habits, chronic medical conditions or health care access.
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » The Pap Gap 2009
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I myself am not so convinced about the evils of National ID — I think the objections have a whiff of black helicopter, to tell you the truth — but Arizona is going to have Business as Usual for Anglos (and probably anyone who looks middle class), but Papers, Please for Hispanics of a certain socioeconomic class with nothing else suspicious about them.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Kobach on Arizona’s Immigration Law 2010
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Nevertheless, the complexity, uncertainty, and perils of the 21st century undoubtedly will generate a large number of crucially important complex and long-term socioeconomic and technical problems.
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Nevertheless, the complexity, uncertainty, and perils of the 21st century undoubtedly will generate a large number of crucially important complex and long-term socioeconomic and technical problems.
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