Sentences with phrase «about social class»

The process of machine rug production has made the creation of these items much more mainstream and commonplace, and area rugs have become readily available to anyone from just about any social class.

(Final self - serving note: I'm under contract and working on a book — and, again, woefully behind on it — about social class and the American legal academy.)

The Lawyer coyly notes that «silver» is meant to give a sense of «elite», but fails to acknowledge that you can not — just can not — use the word «elite» in England without talking about social class, and that has little to do with money or intelligence even, but everything to do with birth.

Lawn Boy is an important, entertaining, and completely winning novel about social class distinctions, about overcoming cultural discrimination, and about standing up for oneself.

What in heck do Carnoy and Rothstein actually mean when they speak relentlessly about social class?

It was also a way to learn about social class and the fabric of America.

How Poverty Changes the Brain Newsweek, 8/25/16» «We have [long] known about the social class differences in health and learning outcomes,» says Dr. Jack Shonkoff, director of the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University.

«It was certainly unpacking my own complicated feelings about social class and privilege and wealth and then it was also about these sort of core moral questions,» Finley said.

Reuniting Ellen Page and Allison Janney, Tallulah sounds like a very unique and promising tale about social class.

In those days many of us thought in a more doctrinaire way about social classes than we do now.

Not exact matches

Feb 26 - Facebook Inc and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg have reached a $ 35 million settlement of class - action litigation accusing them of hiding worries about the social media company's growth prior to its May 2012 initial public offering.

Blumenthal won't share the specific numbers about the Class Trip's return on investment, but he says the company saw meaningful lift in each of the metrics it tracked: press impressions, social - media impressions, brand perception, and sales.

The exciting part with this hands - on class is that you not only get to hear about ways to grow your professional persona using social media, but you will actually do it!

Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO of digital agency VaynerMedia, shares his opinion about social marketing classes, reveals his personal twitter impressions, and more.

Aside from spreading the word about Warby Parker throughout the country, the Class Trip stunt also has a social element.

«If you ask women what they like about a group fitness class, they'll tell you 15 things about the instructor, the environment, the social pressure, but they won't tell you about the bike,» Foley says.

He launched that challenge right from his first interaction with the class at the program orientation dinner, as he addressed a subject he is particularly passionate about: social responsibility.

This book by two psychology professors explores the hidden biases we all carry from a lifetime of exposure to cultural attitudes about age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, social class, sexuality, disability status and nationality.

Each year, The New York Times publishes a handful of undergraduate application essays about work, money and social class.

They're surrounded by legions of rookie staffers who are assigned to populate the rookie ministers» social - media accounts with gigabytes of flattering photos and nonstop cheerleading about what a progressive, green, innovative bunch of things they're doing for the middle class!

Legal expense insurance gains in popularity Reinsurance takes hard look at quake threats New pressures on Errors & Omissions could mean you wind up in court KPMG chats with Top Broker about its world view How identity theft victims» information is misused RSA helps entrepreneurs get social How to wow clients with a great meal and a touch of class

With its Marxist sheen dulled, much of this debate has ceased to be about class divisions (although it retains that edge in certain thinkers) and more so about mentalités — mindsets or common outlooks — that comprise the beliefs inhabiting the social imaginary.

A sociologist like William Julius Wilson can underline the importance of economic factors, pointing to the precipitous decline in manufacturing, and at the same time write frankly about the destructive influence of ghetto culture which lacks a viable middle class that once served as a «social buffer.

But if you think about social capital from a broader social perspective, you would conclude that the U.S. needs nothing more than it needs connectivity across lines of class, race and gender — that is, we need more bridging social capital.

Professional sociology is still much more revealing about the interior workings of all social classes except the professional.

Since the late 1960s black American intellectuals and politicians have fallen prey to what amounts to a conspiracy of silence about the social and moral condition of the black lower classes.

During the 1970s and 80s, many thought that the theology of liberation would strengthen the Catholic Church through the grassroot movement of the CEBs, and that the CEBs, in turn, would raise the consciousness of the popular classes, bringing about serious social change.

All those nativists who don't want upfront amnesty — all those social conservatives who still care about their principles — all those working - class moderates who don't mindlessly defer to the preferences and priorities of «hardheaded» Republican donors... they didn't go away and die.

Those with the most chaotic lives are the least likely to vote, but writers like Ross Douthat and Michael Brendan Dougherty have speculated that one of the reasons Trump's earliest voting base was made up of working - class whites was because of the slow social collapse that Charles Murray wrote about.

But Americans don't quite know bow to think about class as a social identity.

My own experience in teaching religion and theology to middle - and upper - middle - class undergraduates and graduate students in America for the past decade or so certainly suggests that this way of thinking about religion fits neatly with a strong tendency toward the kind of knee - jerk relativism that is also widespread among those in the same social strata.

The New Deal did not, in their estimate, constitute the hardest step in bringing about a socialized economic system; the idealistic weekly was sidestepping the crucial issues of class conflict and the factor of coercion in effecting social justice.

And of course that class has imbibed the values of the capitalist consumerist society too much to bring about a new society embodying values of personal freedom, social justice and ecological wholeness by themselves any more.

This violent process is permeating the relations among international and political powers, social classes and cultural groups, national and ethic groups, and caste and religious communities, making it making it very hard to bring about peaceful resolution of conflicts and disputes among the struggling parties, and eroding the foundations of peaceful life.

«Three beliefs about God were tested separately in ordinary least squares regression models to predict five classes of psychiatric symptoms: general anxiety, social anxiety, paranoia, obsession, and compulsion,» reads the abstract for this paper.

Popular ideas about fatness and health often reinforce social inequalities across class, race, gender, and ability.

Your form ain't exactly world class at the moment Worry about your own game and keep your trap shut.It hasn't gone unnoticed your a bit gobby on the social media.

A story about Arsenal's summer training camp in New York has emerged on social media, and it really does appear the club's class extends around the globe.

This is not how we went about finding a partner in years past, when there was an understood system of signs that codified and ritualized the beginnings of love, and when one's social class or village limited your romantic choices.

Believe it or not, but this class teaches them valuable lessons about social, emotional, and language development, in addition to helping them work on their motor skills.

Any new environment, such as nursery or baby class, can help your baby learn about new social settings and they can benefit from learning to trust and accept help from other adults and new social situations.

If lice didn't result in missed classes, missed work, social judgment and the potential for disrupting the lives of one's peers, would we even care all that much about them?

In Paul Tough's first book, «Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America,» he focused on the Harlem Children's Zone, a 97 - block area where Canada set about overhauling the neighborhood with comprehensive social programs, such as after - school activities and parenting classes, that extended beyond the classroom and reshaped the childhood experience.

Your GP surgery or local parenting group on social media may have information about a nearby course or you could check out WWW.IAIMbabymassage.co.uk for a list of accredited classes in your area.

«She would bring back pictures and stories about her experiences,» said McCafferty, who added that Mrs. O'Leary would incorporate her travels into her social studies classes.

A research led by Pablo Ortellado, from USP (University of Sao Paulo), has scratched the surface of this phenomenon, and shown that these rumours circulating on a social media played an important part in how middle - class and formally educated people were (mis) informed about the investigations.

In the election campaign of that year, the Social Democrats emphasized issues that appealed to middle - class insiders and had less to say about the problem of unemployment than they had in 1994.

«My worry there is that people's housing is part of their sense of stability, part of their sense of having a secure future, and I'm also a bit worried about the way in which this could lead to a kind of social zoning, where middle - class areas get more solidly middle class and other people are pushed out to the edge,» he said in an interview with the BBC.

«All the things we're doing in education, from Sure Start to higher education and through to adult skills, is about closing the social class gap,» he told the magazine.

Blogger's here show the same lack of awareness about how hard won social gains for Middle and Working Class people civilized the hard dogma of Capitalism.