Sentences with phrase «own social class»

In fact, researchers have found that when people think they are more physically attractive, they believe that they belong to a higher social class, regardless of how good looking they really are or their actual social status.

With that cheeky introduction by host Carlos Watson, the PBS debate show Point Taken last night dove headlong into the fractious debate of salary transparency that has been gaining steam of late, especially as a way to bridge widening wage gaps based on gender, race, and social class.

«If you believe you are attractive, you tend to think you belong in a higher social class yourself and believe, accordingly, that hierarchies are a legitimate way for organizing people and groups.

And two is the tendency of rentier capitalism to create the social class that SOAS economist Guy Standing describes as «the precariat».

«Even though extant research has identified numerous predictors of people's happiness and well being, most of these factors represent relatively stable aspects of an individual's life, such as the cultural environment in which one is raised or resides and demographics such as age, education, social class, marital status, and religion,» write the researchers.

Among the questions: «How do you define your social class?»

Last but by no means least, standard economic theory predicts that increased trade will grow the economy but hurt some specific social classes.

He has co-authored published studies with titles such as «On wealth and the diversity of friendships: High social class people around the world have fewer international friends,» and «The Role of Positive Self - Evaluation on Cross-Cultural Differences in Well - Being.»

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.

Banana Republics are societies characterized by their starkly stratified social classes and a ruling - class plutocracy composed of the business, political and military elites.

(Last year, leaked internal documents indicated that part of the problem is that Facebook's algorithm protected categories like race and gender but not age or social class, so that negative discussion of «white men» would raise red flags, but a post insulting «black teens» would not.)

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

And regardless of social class, the stresses and distractions that afflict unemployed parents also afflict their kids, who are more likely to repeat a grade in school, and who on average earn less as adults.

Titled «On wealth and the diversity of friendships: High social class people around the world have fewer international friends,» it studied the social ties between wealthy people around the world and was published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences in 2015.

The London identity seems widely shared across generations, social classes and ethnic groups

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Identity is a complex and...

Attentive to the influences of liturgy, denominational tradition, architectural style, social class, and ethnicity, Williams has nevertheless chosen to view his subject primarily through the lens of region.

Its proponents claim that the tradition is dominated by patriarchy and exclusion, the product of oppressive forces linked to geographical location, social class, race, and gender.

To many, the answer might seem obvious: «It's social class, stupid!»

I'd rather have the government regulate social classes than the greed inside people's hearts.

Gambling in today's United States — repackaged, sanitized, video - ized, down - marketed and ubiquitous — is not an issue of temperance or free choice but rather one of social class and public economic policy....

But the roots of caste can be traced back to a story in the most ancient Hindu scriptures, the Vedas, in which the various social classes are produced from the sacrifice of a primordial man — the priestly class from the mouth, the warrior class from the arms, the merchant class from the thighs, the laboring class from the feet (Rig Veda 90:10).

(Other issues were also at stake, especially a shift in eschatology in which premillennialism tended to erode the commitment to social reform and probably various sorts of social class sortings out, but the themes sketched above better represent the fundamentalist self - consciousness.)

By these and similar rules of social etiquette Islam guided the steps of people in backward stages of development, urging them to rise to an appropriate standard and attain the level of the more advanced social classes.

So if a socio - economically oppressed black woman complains to me that people are always attributing her behavior to her «uncivilized» social class, I'm tempted to respond by saying to her, «Are you sure you aren't overreacting?»

No other structure in the world can be called on to promise eternal salvation, and when such salvific claims are made in the name of some nation, race, social class, religion, or ideology, the church must fight such idolatry and blasphemy with all its means of persuasion, even to the point of martyrdom.

For example, as an educated, upwardly - mobile privileged person, I benefit from the fact that politicians pay attention to my social class and fight for my vote.

The immigrating Catholics were also, in general, poor folk escaping from the hardships proper to lower social classes of Europe.

The Council wants both sexes to cooperate responsibly in this culture, and men and women of all social classes as well as all nations, whether rich or poor, to have as active a share in it as possible through education, means of communication, tourism and so forth.

Other human rights violations that affect everyone, like a lack of food and mobility through the social classes, also affect women and young girls more harshly, often leading them into prostitution just so they can afford basic necessities.

The most dramatic difference between the older and younger groups is in social class.

Finally, most institutions apply criteria to the profile of the whole student body, hoping that their student bodies will incorporate a variety of experience and perspectives based on gender, race, ethnic ties, social class and prior occupations and involvements.

The divisiveness may be due to the sense of difference and discrimination as well as of superiority or inferiority of cultures or sub-cultures on the basis of religion, social class or caste.

But it had everything to do with Palin's gender and her social class.

He would like to see liberation theology take its cues from base communities» populist «grass - roots communitarian democracy» and then extend this «populism» into a liberalism that, contra Marx, offers «democracy and equality to all human beings, regardless of sex, race or social class (Rousseau)» Sigmund's agenda would purge liberation theology of much of its «early revolutionary fervor,» but in its dialogue with liberalism it would still perform «a radical «prophetic» role in reminding complacent elites of the religious obligation of social solidarity, and in combating oppression.»

Opinion polls show that these members are as liberal on economic issues as members of mainline denominations, even when social class and race are taken into account.

They insisted that the starting point for reading and interpreting the Bible be the experience of the crushing poverty and oppression of the lowest social classes.

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

Almost all Lutheran theological writing has been generated in European or North American academies — in part, the legacy of Luther's own concern for learning and education — and it has been done almost exclusively by European or (more recently) North American men among whom differences of race, economic and social class, and level of education are even less remarkable than their theological differences.

As T. V. Philip observes, almost all of those who went out as missionaries in the earlier period were «a distinctive social class in British society... of craftsmen, small traders, shoe makers, printers, ship builders, school teachers...» William Carey, for instance, plied the trade of a cobbler to supplement his meagre earnings as a village school teacher and Baptist pastor.

First, Whitehead is himself the product of a nineteenth - century English social class which educated its younger members for intellectual satisfaction and leadership.

They tend to be homogeneous with respect to social class — except for Pentecostal or charismatic churches, which are no longer the exclusive havens of the disinherited.

These ideals of the democracy of worth in the field of social class have direct application to education.

The problems of social class derive not from this classifying of men with the animals but from dividing the inclusive class of persons into subclasses.

The comprehensive schools (and their counterparts in higher education, the comprehensive universities) recognize the necessity for educational differentiation but, by keeping the students together in some classes and in the student activities program, minimize social class divisions.

The ability of teachers to resist external social class demands is greatly enhanced by their own success in becoming professionally competent and organized along professional lines.

Injustices, the demand for privileges, arbitrariness, prejudice, exclusiveness — all of the forms of oppressive behavior in which individual freedom and worth are denied — are a consequence either of deliberate self - seeking or of absolutizing limited goods, such as membership in a particular social class, nation, or family.

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

Studies have also shown that most of the common intelligence tests have a social class bias; the vocabulary and thought patterns used in them generally follow a middle class pattern, thus putting the socially and economically more privileged in a preferential position.

To admit the principle of classification is not to deny the need for democratic criticism of actual social class arrangements.

Of particular interest for our present discussion of social class are the ways in which the activity of classifying applies to people.