Sentences with phrase «narrow social elite»

And perhaps we can also start to be more aware of the persistence of social class in this country, where political leaders are drawn from a narrow social elite and where birth cohort evidence shows that parental background has a huge influence on academic attainment, health and labour - market opportunities.

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Second, it has highlighted more than ever the severe underlying problems of the British state, steadily eating away at its legitimacy: the lack of devolution to and within England; the state's apparent lack of responsiveness to major social problems; the perception many have that politics serves a narrow elite at the expense of the wider society; the lack of trust in elected politicians, to name but some of the issues.

All of these examples point to the fact that Canada, as a settler society, has been a historically and remains a society where a narrow aged White male elite exercises full control over all the economic, legal, social, cultural, and political levers.