Sentences with phrase «of social inequity»

Greg Lindquist, a painter and regular Brooklyn Rail contributor, constructs an image cycle of social inequity in the face of environmental desecration, playing a requiem above a baseline of spoilt nature caused by corporate self - interest.

Greg Lindquist constructs an image cycle of social inequity in the face of environmental desecration, playing a requiem above a baseline of spoilt nature caused by corporate self - interest.

It doesn't imply that any particular CEO isn't worth the money, and it doesn't imply that any particular board is obligated to do the impossible, namely to «fix» the big problem of social inequity by paying its own CEO less.

This movement has meant a turning toward political stasis and a certain ruthless acceptance of social inequities as eternally ordained by the Deity.

In the face of social inequities he rests his reform program primarily on his own example (5:10 - 19).

As with many of the previous films made by the prolific Belgian duo, their tenth narrative feature reveals the devastating effects of social inequities, which brutally entangle those who too often remain fundamentally invisible and entirely unknown.

The film, from co-directors Byron Howard and Rich Moore, explores the kinds of social inequities — gender, racial and class bias — they saw unfolding during production in the national conversation as police killings of African American men sparked the Black Lives Matter movement.

«As a result, some of the social inequities that do exist don't take on the role or meaning that they do here.»

As far as how to work on the problems of social inequities and racial injustices, Collins believes in the power of interventions and education that re-examine the relationships and concepts of color, and redefine community.

At what point did you begin to become aware of the social inequities in Trinidad?

It is that too many of us fail to build into our work and our organizations a consciousness that the roots of our ecological crisis and the roots of our social inequities and injustices are deeply intertwined.

Bubup Wilam supports families by assisting them to address the complex issues they face as a result of social inequities manifested by the oppressed position Aboriginal people hold in this country.

Not exact matches

Far beyond the pure social inequity — and that would be bad enough, we admit — is a very real dollar - and - cents cost, a doozy of a recurring charge that ripples through the financial markets.

Service toward the poor becomes a means of rectifying social inequities rather than a theological claim as to how the world is ordered.

These inequities are not only important for determining who has access to means of cultural production; they also become problems with respect to social control that may result in attempted ideological resolutions.

The human community need not suffer in resigned impotence from the pains of social disorder and inequity.

The medieval city, for all its real inequities and flaws, was a partial realization of a social order ritually imagined in Christian baptism.

For instance, poverty is addressed through dissolving the blocks to prosperity within the consciousness of each individual, without analysis of the social structures that perpetuate economic inequity.

In a world that is increasingly being crowded together, we ascertain curious evidence that the widening effects of overpopulation and social inequity are creating frightening shapes of self - consciousness.

No Christian writer of the New Testament, so far as our records reveal, ever faced the responsibility of applying high moral principles to preserving the institutions of society, administering governments, handling international relationships, prosecuting social reforms, or even mitigating by public measures the inequities of an economic system.1

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.

Finally the assembly agreed on a number of guidelines for a new information order, including: the elimination of the imbalances and inequities brought on by media monopolies; a «better balanced dissemination of information and ideas»; freedom of the press and of information; and respect for each people's cultural identity and its right to inform the world about its «interests, aspirations and social and cultural values.

Abstracting from cosmological considerations is quite understandable here since the immediate questions giving rise to this adventurous theology arise out of social and economic inequities.

The danger of proceeding in this way is that one may unify theological schooling but in doing so may hide larger inequities in the arrangement of social power and may validate particular oppressive arrangements of power.

Gerbner also charged that violence and sexual violence tend to vindicate existing inequities in the social order, especially to force «integration of the many into the prevailing hierarchy of powers.»

Consideration of social justice issues throughout the development process will ensure that your Farm to Preschool program benefits all children without inadvertently contributing to inequity.

Their mission is to reduce racial inequities in breastfeeding support for African Americans by building foundational networks of support and strengthening systems to overcome historical, societal and social barriers to breastfeeding success.

When public schools make a free, delicious, organic school lunch for every student, we not only address the critical social inequities of hunger and obesity, we truly nourish every child.

Clearly then, we need to think about how we might address this issue of inequity: to develop the role of Deputy Prime Minister so that it can be more fulfilling, raising public awareness and recognition of the social utility of what they do, promoting the holder's sense of self - worth, and harnessing their full creative potential...

White Privilege can be interpreted as a derivation of Max Weber's sociological concept of «social stratification» - describing how inequity within society forms and is perpetuated.

It warns that the Tory policy of introducing so - called free schools will «increase social divisiveness and inequity» and «waste precious resources».

The Office's goals are to enhance the economic, civic, and social integration of immigrant New Yorkers; facilitate access to justice for immigrant New Yorkers; and advocate for continued immigration reforms at all levels of government in order to eliminate inequities that impact New York's immigrant communities.

The tenets of health equity and human rights are explored with an emphasis on how social conditions influence health and health inequities.

Black - white differences in life expectancy are a longstanding source of public health concern in the United States, and are considered indicative of deeper social inequities in society.

Oddly, though, a strength of the new study could be its minimal approach to larger social and economic inequities: The risk in fixing too many things too fast is that it may attract developers, trigger gentrification and drive out long - time residents.

These were the Social and Institutional Gender Index or SIGI (which measures discrimination against women), the Gender Inequality Index or GII (which measures health economic and power inequities), and the Gender Gap Index or GGI (a measure of economic, education, health and political power).

I won't pretend to be knowledgeable enough on the subject to debate the blanket assertions, but he's overlooking some larger issues regarding systemic poverty and social inequities, while the tricky matter of private funding is elided altogether.»

«There are so many people hurting around the world because of social, economic, inequality and inequity.

Not all universities make the leap from classroom behavior to ideology: The «Teacher Education Professional Dispositions and Skills Criteria» at Winthrop University in South Carolina are only basic indicators of professional commitment, communication skills, interpersonal skills (among them, «Shows sensitivity to all students and is committed to teaching all students»), emotional maturity, and academic integrity; acknowledging social inequities is not mentioned.

There is also a strong social - justice component to teacher education, with teachers cast as «activists committed to diminishing the inequities of American society.»

The action implications of these findings, as well as some of the dos noted earlier, are to promote a genuine and broad sense of inclusiveness by educating for true understanding of diversity, especially as manifest in one's own school, to ensure that school codes of conduct and core values are integrated into everyday routines, including opportunities for student reflection and feedback on student report cards (versus being relegated to statements in handbooks or on web sites), and to require that all students are given systematic training in social problem solving or related social - emotional skills and encouraged specifically to use those skills in finding alternatives to mistreating others, seeking help effectively, and upstanding in the presence of injustice and inequity.

The fact is that reforming urban schools is an issue of social justice: there are too many children in cities across the U.S. who are denied the opportunity to have a high - quality education, and these inequities run strongly along lines of race and class.

We must not abandon integration as a goal, but it is utopian to believe that schools alone can close an achievement gap that is the result of deeper economic and social inequities.

Comparing districts with and without systems of choice, Schneider, Teske, and Marschall find little evidence of increasing inequities where choice is available; the academic performance of all schools appears to increase with even limited choice in a district; and parents become more engaged when allowed to choose their schools - thus enhancing the community's social capital.

Geography: International trade, including access to markets, inequality and «fair trade»; the nature of economic, political, social and environmental interdependence in the contemporary world; inequities of global systems and how they can result in unemployment, poverty and declining welfare standards for some people and localities, and advantages for other people and localities; food production, circulation and consumption.

One of the best ways to develop cultural literacy and help our students understand these goals is through social justice processes and projects, activities that develop a mindset of concern for our society's inequity in wealth, education, and privilege.

Thus, the case for charter schools today is almost always made in social - justice terms — promoting charters» success in closing achievement gaps, boosting poor kids» chances of upward mobility, and alleviating systemic inequities.

Collins, a distinguished professor at the University of Maryland, examined the dilemmas of changing freedoms and social inequities in her keynote address.

How do social inequities persist in a world with powerful visions of human freedom, massive changes to laws, and extensive media coverage?

When public schools make a free, delicious, organic school lunch for every student, we not only address the critical social inequities of hunger and obesity, we truly nourish every child.