Posted by Isaac Martin on Monday, December 10, 2007 at 12:57pm.
Social factors are anything and everything in a person's environment that influence him/her. These include family, income, cultural customs, neighborhood, religion, and primary language.
If you're asking about academic tests, all of the above can influence the results. A child with little contact with the world outside his family, for instance, will likely have a limited vocabulary. (Years ago I knew of kindergartners in inner-city Chicago who had never seen Lake Michigan -- a short streetcar ride away from their homes.)
If a family doesn't value education, the chances are that the child won't see any reason to try to succeed academically.
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