Sentences with phrase «on urban middle classes»

Studies of environmental consciousness tend to focus on urban middle classes, giving the false impression that rural populations are either unaffected, do not know or do not care.

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For instance, says Kaus, Loury wants blacks to accept responsibility for their lives as individuals and not as members of a racial tribe, while he at the same time calls on middle - class blacks to act as though they are responsible for the tribe, especially those members of the tribe who are in the urban underclass.

Thus, the rural and urban poor are much less likely to marry and stay married than their middle - and upper - class peers, therefore losing out on the social, economic, and moral benefits of marriage.

The liberalization of the economy under Congress's leadership in 1991through such measures as eliminating tariffs and restrictions on private business - created a new constituency for the traditionally pro-business BJP: the rising middle class in urban centers.

On the other side were Parliament, the growing urban middle classes, many of the lesser gentry, the Puritans, and the extreme Protestants.

Most research into this question has focused on urban, white, middle - class American children living near large universities.

Most research on children's understanding of the natural world has come from middle - class, European American children living in urban or suburban communities, typically located close to universities.

Although some reports suggest that nutrition trends in the northeast have been improving, 23 and others are documenting the rise in obesity in the middle class, 24 chronic malnutrition remains endemic and has advanced from the northeast's poorest rural areas to the urban peripheries.25 The standard food intake pattern in Brazil is based on rice or manioc, beans, coffee, bread, beef and, increasingly, sugar in the form of soft drinks and fruit juices, 26 none of which (except for beef liver) are noteworthy for their vitamin A content.

In this fast - moving, densely plotted black dramedy, a faux scandal raised by an ambitious web TV editor comes close to destroying a number of lives, offering a masterful panorama on urban, middle class China.

The premise is your basic urban legend middle class nightmare: five guys let loose in a wild drug and alcohol fueled Las Vegas bachelor party, complete with a sexy stripper who's willing to do a little business on the side.

Though he pointed out that some Negroes were managing to move into the middle class, he focused on documenting what he argued was the deteriorating situation of impoverished black families in the inner cities: «The family structure of lower class Negroes is highly unstable, and in many urban centers is approaching complete breakdown.»

On the other hand, Denver's steady improvement has widened the achievement gap, something that happens in many urban districts that improve, as white and middle - class students raise their scores faster than poor and minority students.

In Arizona, a state that has always had charter schools that draw middle - class students, there is evidence that, on average at least, charters are not doing any better at raising student achievement than district schools; outside of urban areas, they appear to do a bit worse.

But to capitalize on this opportunity, urban schools that currently serve a predominantly poor and minority population must find a way to attract and retain the gentrifiers — mostly white, upper - middle - class, highly educated parents.

According to a 2002 study of children in Dane County, Wisconsin, by urban - policy consultant David Rusk, low - income children at schools with a middle - class majority scored 20 - 32 percent higher on standardized tests compared with what their scores would be at schools with a lower percentage of middle - class students.

To diversify their campuses, these colleges eagerly seek out well - prepared minority students (not just minority students from the middle and upper - middle class who went to suburban or private schools, but urban minority students truly in need of a boost) and are willing to take dramatic steps to ensure their success on their campuses.

The position of black middle class families is often lost when discussing the intersections between race and class; most of the discourse surrounding socioeconomic statuses is based on the dichotomy between rich and poor, suburban and urban, and black and white.

BMW, like Mercedes and Audi, is also on a continuous expansion plan and it says it has indentified new trends including the dual habit of downsizing and more people living in cramped urban areas, as well as a distinct new market made up of affluent middle - class couples with a sporting bent.

Britton conducted a RCT in a private independent school comparing a mindfulness meditation class with an active control (n = 101), finding that mindfulness was associated with reductions in thoughts of self - harm.35 A recent trial of a mindfulness program compared with a social responsibility control in a mostly middle - class population showed that mindfulness led to positive outcomes in psychological symptoms, cognitive control, interpersonal outcomes, and stress physiology.36 Although these findings are promising, little information is available on mindfulness instruction for low - income, urban, minority populations.