Sentences with phrase «social discrimination»

The researchers suggest that local authorities could therefore counteract social discrimination by diagnosing and removing signs of disorder and decay in public environments.

«Standardized tests allow colleges to practice social discrimination in the name of academic selectivity, when, in reality, high school grades are the best predictor of future collegiate success,» said Soares.

But surely the Christian cause would have derived an incalculable gain if, at the loss of even millions of dollars, it were to bring about a day when the bogey of intermarriage could no longer serve as an excuse for perpetuating our unjust social discrimination against our colored brothers.

By using playback experiments to systematically assess social discrimination skills in relation to developmental history, we provide the first direct evidence that abilities to process information on social identity and age - related dominance are severely compromised among African elephants that had experienced separation from family members and translocation decades previously.

Dateable Dateable was founded in 1987 to combat the isolation and social discrimination often experienced by people with disabilities.

Infused throughout these curricula will be issues of social justice to teach students about social discrimination, religious amity, and national integration.

The conflicts are many and varied but there is a contemporary ring to them: irrational prejudices, ethnic tension, cultural crisis, social discrimination and economic domination were all present in all the conflicts of the time.

It was appropriate, then, for early 20th - century Social Gospel theologians like Walter Rauschenbusch to observe how prejudice and social discrimination are passed from one generation to the next, and it is consistent for theologians today to incorporate observations about social inheritance — what liberation theologians and feminist theologians call «social location» or «systemic evil» — into our understanding of the human condition.

But when they switch to other religious faiths and experience the same distinctions — albeit in different forms — they realize that such a change neither improves their social status nor remedies their economic problems of unemployment and poverty — the real source of their social discrimination.

Non-Muslims paid special taxes, and as time went on, the taxes grew heavier, the social discrimination became more oppressive, and a system of Christian disabilities developed in the official and legal circles.

These are insecurity, limited citizenship, spatial disadvantage, social discrimination and poor work opportunities.

«The violent protests in Ferguson demonstrate that social discrimination is still one of the leitmotifs of human history,» Sellaro says.

This phenomenon is known as «John Henryism,» referring to a coping strategy in which individuals, beset by stress and social discrimination, expend enormous effort to achieve success — but can end up damaging their health in the process.

The social discrimination deficit and elevated maze models are validated in a model of spinal cord injury.

Using a process that recalls radical forms of art that employ detritus and everyday found materials, Jones reveals the social discrimination at play in how value is assigned to different cultures and the objects that represent them.»