Sentences with phrase «against social class»

Collectively these Oxford men have engineered a referendum result that divides old against young, town against country, social class against social class.

Not exact matches

The undemocratic class bias in education extends even farther than the tests that automatically discriminate against students from the lower social and economic strata of society.

It is the proper business of the democratic school to serve as an influence against general social class stratification.

Human affliction, especially the monstrous inhumanity of man to man, was to them a practical, rather than a theoretical, problem; it represented not only a conflict of ideas but a conflict of individual and class interests, a struggle for justice in personal character or social organization against selfishness, ill will, and inequity.

Where these movements of eco-justice stand in isolation from the struggle against «capitalist infringements of communal rights to natural resources», that is, from the struggle for social justice, they are likely to be of a purely middle class character and tend to get coopted by the ideology of market economy.

Our data agrees with that of others, 1223 that suggest that delaying the introduction of formula milk protects against the morbidity associated with respiratory infection, illness, and associated hospitalisations in the first year of life.24 Prolonged breast feeding was only marginally associated with less respiratory illness when examined in a New Zealand birth cohort to 2 years of age, 25 and the Dundee study8 showed a small, yet significant protective effect of breast feeding against respiratory illness at 0 — 13 weeks and 40 — 52 weeks after adjustment for social class, maternal age, and parental smoking.

Adding to this disillusion, he continues, is a gradual erosion of public faith in politics, driven in part by the distorting impact of 24 - hour news and social media — «it does trivialise politics, and it has done a real amount of damage to the perception of politics» — a backlash against a political class that favours spin over frankness — «I detest spin, it is deceit and it is intended to be deceit» — and, ultimately, by the failure of mainstream parties to «reach out beyond the political sphere» and speak to people's real concerns.

To expand on Nicolas Holthaus» excellent comment: in a modern western society, if you're in a position to make your opinions on «populism» widely heard, you're close enough to the top of the social hierarchy that radical social change would be very much against your class interests!

Women are more likely than men to support socially «soft» policy positions and are sometimes apt to go against the interests of their own social class.

I wish the new Labour leader well and would ask him to join us on the streets with the working class people who are taking a stand against social cleansing but for now it remains to be seen whether the rest of his party will follow his lead.

«In the period that the NDC has been in office, we have seen the greatest upward movement of people from lower classes into the middle class, and yet when people get into the middle class because of the perception that our party is social democratic and it's against property owning and seeks to equalize poverty, then those same people that we have created the conditions to be upwardly mobile drift into the property owning classes and therefore identify themselves with a different ideology.

Social movement unionism works with affiliates in worker's movements, women's movements, student movements, other human rights organizations to and integrates them into a broader network or popular front against injustice and exploitation by the ruling class.

Some books for religious and social sciences classes in use in public and private schools in several Muslim countries have included derogatory references to non-Muslims, glorified terrorist activities, and outlined students» obligations to defend Islam against the «infidels,» according to reviews by U.S. - based organizations.

Children fighting on the playground, teachers struggling to control a difficult class, parents arguing about the time their teenager should be home, neighbour disputes over land boundaries or anti social behaviours, protests against tyrannical leaders — conflict happens.

More worrying is the effect on classroom ethos as children are increasingly seen to directly compete against each other for their place in the class and therefore the social hierarchy and life chances.

A multiracial fightback against the testing industrial complex — one that is explicitly ant - racist and takes up issues of class inequality — has the potential to change the terms of the education reform debate and envision a world where authentic assessments are used to support students as they engage in classroom inquiry about how to achieve social justice.

Ned, nearsighted and infamous for licking the dusty soles of his penny loafers in the back of social studies class, was splayed against the cold orange brick wall of the school building.

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Furthermore, it puts a satirical premium on «whiteness», ridiculing the superficial luxury of racial classification as well as critiquing the hard social realities of street vending experienced by those who have been discriminated against in terms of race or class.

Put simply — and perhaps too simply — critics of capitalism in the past were concerned in the main with its social consequences — that it pitched classes against each other.

An attempt to extract a definition of the class to whom the Code applies by various characteristics (T) would be completely tautological: it covers those who are discriminated against on the basis of prohibited grounds and those who discriminate against them in various social contexts, such as employment.

Represent a group of disabled employees of the Social Security Administration in a class action case that alleges that the Social Security Administration discriminates against employees with targeted disabilities by creating a glass ceiling and limiting promotions and other career advancement opportunities.

Canadians could face an uphill battle to enforce local privacy laws against social media companies if the Supreme Court of Canada upholds a B.C. Court of Appeal decision to halt a class action against Facebook, Toronto privacy lawyer Peter Murphy tells AdvocateDaily.com.

Bingham quotes the legal scholar E.J. Cohn: «Just as the modern State tries to protect the poorer classes against the common dangers of life, such as unemployment, disease, old age, social oppression, etc., so it should protect them when legal difficulties arise.»

To commit, for any political or social end, any act of hate or revenge against private persons or any social class; and

has commenced class actions against major social media companies (e.g., Facebook) and is in the process of investigating numerous other privacy class actions.

A number of cryptocurrency associations and companies from countries including South Korea, Russia and China have apparently decided to file a class action lawsuit against internet advertising companies and social platforms that have decided to ban cryptocurrency and ICO...

There were no significant differences between experimental and control group teacher ratings on student's behaviors measured by the Landau scales of social climate in the classes (LASSO), including measures of rivalry between classmates, aggression against classmates, and extent of clique formation.

Four housing groups, including the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA), filed a lawsuit last week against the social media giant, alleging Facebook's advertising platform is discriminatory in nature for allowing the exclusion of families with children, women and other protected classes.