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PubMed1978

Forms of aggression in Thomson's gazelle; their situational motivation and their relative frequency in different sex, age, and social classes.

Forms of aggression, their situational motivations and frequencies in Thomson's gazelle were investigated to elucidate the multiple functions of aggressive behavior as well as quantitative differences in encounters with opponents of different sex, age, and social classes. The study was conducted in the Serengeti National Park (Tanzania) where the gazelle population is estimated to total 600 000. Within three years, 4016 agonistic encounters were recorded and analyzed. Besides the confirmation of its conventionally recognized functions in territoriality, etc., the great role of intraspecific aggression in the coordination of group activities appears to be of special importance.

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PubMed1989

Ironies of inclusion: social class and deinstitutionalization.

This paper discusses changes in the social organization of mental institutionalization as they relate to developments in the wider social and economic environment. Despite dramatic changes in the system of inpatient psychiatric care during the last three decades, the historic division of labor between the private and the public system (with the latter treating the poor, the unemployed, and the nonwhite) has not ceased to exist. At the same time, under the influence of the postwar trend towards greater political integration of disadvantaged and marginal groups into society's central value systems, treatment of the mentally ill has become less segregated and more voluntary. An important implication of these two interacting trends--the changed legal position of the patient vis-à-vis the provider and the deteriorating economic position of the user of public psychiatric facilities--has been the exceeding irrelevance of one of the basic tenets of psychiatric care: that clinical treatment precedes social functioning. With two vignettes of chronic patients the article illustrates how symptoms and survival are fused in the contemporary, inclusionary system of care.

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PubMed2003

Sexual behaviour and social class in Australian women.

Sexual behaviour is determined by social, cultural and personal factors. Sexual behaviour studies have been conducted in many countries. However, information from Australia is limited. This study was conducted in Obstetrics Department, Westmead Hospital, Sydney. Questionnaire-derived demographic and behavioural characteristics for public and private patients were compared using bivariate and logistic regression analyses. Of the patients, 3036 were public, and 595 private. On bivariate analysis some significant differences were private patients more likely to be born in Australia and have a higher education level whereas public patients were more likely to have had a greater number of lifetime sexual partners and younger age at first sex. Public patients were more likely to be herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) antibody positive (12%) than private patients (6%). On logistic regression significant variables included country of birth, being HSV-2 antibody positive, and age at first sex. A number of sexual and social variables were significantly different, comparing patients in the public and private sectors. Evaluation of interventions to reduce the sexual risk to women in the public sector should be considered, including encouraging young women to delay their sexual debut, and reducing the number of sexual partners.

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