Sentences with phrase «social class inequality»

Accumulating advantages over time: Family experiences and social class inequality in academic achievement.

«Because social class inequality is greater in the United States than in any of the countries with which we can reasonably be compared, the relative performance of U. S. adolescents is better than it appears when countries» national average performance is conventionally compared.»

In addition, the findings suggest that social class inequalities in children's skills still exist within a disadvantaged community.

Not exact matches

«Having written two lengthy books on poverty in Victorian England,» Prof. Himmelfarb notes, «I am painfully aware of the difficulties and inequalities in Victorian life... class distinctions, social prejudices, abuses of authority, constraints on personal liberty, restrictions and hindrances of all sorts.

Popular ideas about fatness and health often reinforce social inequalities across class, race, gender, and ability.

Public bodies could be legally required to tackle social inequalities in their policies under plans which the Tories say look like «class war attacks».

Harriet Harman, the Equalities minister, wants a new law to put «the persistent inequality of social class» on the same footing as discrimination on grounds of race, gender, sexuality or disability.

Class was still the source of «persistent inequality» in British society, the government said in a white paper on social mobility published on Tuesday.

Actually, to the opposite, many regimes explicitly derive their legitimacy from being committed to maintaining a social system that ensures inequality, e.g. Apartheid South Africa, the Confederate State of America (racial inequality), and Soviet Russia (in this case, the ruling proletariat class ruling over all other classes; the Russian Revolution did NOT attempt to create a state with equality as many think).

Effectively ending Labour's decade - long ceasefire on class - based political rhetoric, Miss Harman last year declared that social class is the «over-arching» inequality in Britain today.

If market diversification, social class differentiation, and income inequality continue to increase in many areas affected by marine protected areas and other conservation policies, anti-social behaviors could start to dominate and inhibit pro-social behaviors, the researchers said.

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Social and economic inequality, not just formal instruction, strongly affects test scores, and «achievement is known to vary significantly by socioeconomic class and race.»

«Contrarily to what we initially hypothesized, gender inequalities... were not lower in those welfare state regimes with greater levels of wealth redistribution and more universal policies for social protection nor, more specifically, among the most privileged... occupational social classes,» Campos - Serna writes.

One result, Martin fears, is the emergence of a new vocabulary with which to justify social inequalities: explain why blacks or women or the working class may fail to «achieve».

They found that whilst the level of inequality wasn't on the scale it had been between the two areas in 1842, individuals in the middle social class bracket in Rutland still lived longer than those in the highest social class in Liverpool.

«The results could also be highlighting a mechanism of how the modern era might facilitate a closing of the inequality gap, as those from lower social classes take advantage of platforms like Facebook to increase their social capital beyond national borders,» he said.

Even though inequality has lately come to the fore as a public issue, two widely held American beliefs persist — first, that the U.S. is largely a classless society and, second, that people shed or discard the vestiges of their social class roots when they achieve upward mobility.

A new three - part documentary shows how the Grenfell Tower inferno exposed the realities of class oppression and social inequality in the most brutal way.

Including social justice in the school reform narrative adds an important dimension: class and an acknowledged history of inequality.

In setting my learning goals for tomorrow's Ph.D. prosem class, should I focus our attention on the substantive claims about social capital and inequality, on the methods that different researchers use, or on the interplay between theory construction and empirical research?

His dissertation investigates how young people negotiate political orientations on matters of race, class, inequality, and social change.

I pay particular attention to their politics on race, class, inequality, and social change as we interrogated local challenges through a curriculum that explicitly framed inequality as structurally rooted.

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.

Robert Colescott is «a proud instigator who fearlessly tackled subjects of social and racial inequality, class structure, and the human condition through his uniquely rhythmic and often manic style of figuration.»

Carmichael argues that the continued oppression of African Americans is rooted in economic and educational inequality, while de Falla's opera serves as a cautionary tale about the polarizing social implications of class distinctions.

REPRESENTATION > Blum & Poe announces its representation of the estate of Robert Colescott (1925 - 2009) describing the late artist as «a proud instigator who fearlessly tackled subjects of social and racial inequality, class structure, and the human condition.»

Linked by a common subject matter, the work gathered here examines the state of race and social class in America while using the very nature of sight and the medium of photography as metaphors for inequality, invisibility, and the ways photographs inflect our perceptions of the world.

The gallery called the painter «a proud instigator who fearlessly tackled subjects of social and racial inequality, class structure, and the human condition through his uniquely rhythmic and often manic style of figuration».

His exhibition for TMR Guadalajara, titled This Side, That Side, takes the stark and widening inequalities between social classes as its point of departure.

But I agree the big acceleration in gdp came with farming, and it did lead to social classes and inequality and higher production of waste and higher environmental impacts.

Jessica Piekielek, who teaches sociology and anthropology at Southern Oregon University, has taken advantage of the calculator in her Introduction to Cultural Anthropology class to talk about global population growth, development, and social inequality.

The supposed benefits of reducing income inequality would be felt beyond the low - income targets of social programs, because middle - class citizens would live in safer neighbourhoods as well.

The first 5 years of life are critical for the development of language and cognitive skills.1 By kindergarten entry, steep social gradients in reading and math ability, with successively poorer outcomes for children in families of lower social class, are already apparent.2 — 4 Early cognitive ability is, in turn, predictive of later school performance, educational attainment, and health in adulthood5 — 7 and may serve as a marker for the quality of early brain development and a mechanism for the transmission of future health inequalities.8 Early life represents a time period of most equality and yet, beginning with in utero conditions and extending through early childhood, a wide range of socially stratified risk and protective factors may begin to place children on different trajectories of cognitive development.9, 10

The marriage gap by social class is a source of anxiety, since it contributes to inequality — and to inequality of opportunity, too.