Sentences with phrase «social division»

It is another difficult truth that the most common way of deciding school places - distance from school - has also been identified by researchers as a major cause of social division in education.

The luxury and social division of the past, meeting the technology, mechanical and scientific vision of the future.

Rather, they tried to drive social divisions by mentioning hot - button issues like guns, LGBT rights and immigration.

The report recognises that this largely explains the success of faith schools, with their selective intake and its implications for social divisions.

It would be full of people with a direct motive for maintaining social divisions in our country so that they could go on being paid to represent the groups which elected them.

The problem is not just social division, but a widening geographical divide.

Free Schools have been shown to entrench social division in Sweden.

Glenn Loury of the Institute on Race and Social Division at Boston University argued in the New York Times that money wouldn't solve the problem: «We need some reckoning with the racist past, but reparations encourage the wrong kind of reckoning....

Reuters: Egyptians support new Islamist - backed constitution in referendum An Islamist - backed Egyptian constitution won approval in a referendum, rival camps said on Sunday, after a vote the opposition said would sow deep social divisions in the Arab world's most populous nation.

Rather than a strict denominationalism, distinctions are based more on ritual and doctrine than on social divisions.

In 2017, Silicon Valley did some soul - searching about tech's role in spreading fake news that exacerbated social divisions in the U.S. Chinese tech firms should do some soul - searching too, given they work with an authoritarian government skilled in using technologies to try to control society.

«David Walsh: It's time to talk about climate change and energy security Main Phil Briscoe: Labour and Respect are fostering social division in Tower Hamlets»

The indictment confirmed earlier findings from congressional investigations that Russian agents manipulated social media to promote social division by mimicking grassroots political activity.

Their work is a welcome, and vital, part of a bigger battle against social division under the Tories

And, finally, investigative reporting exposed that on social media «Russian trolls and automated bots not only promoted explicitly pro-Donald Trump messaging, but also used social media to sow social divisions in America by stoking disagreement and division around a plethora of controversial topics»

Instead of the government determining students» eligibility for financial aid, which can cause social division between those who receive aid and those who don't, Dr. Sara Goldrick - Rab and Dr. Tammy Kolbe recommend that all students should be funded collectively under a taxpayer - supported universal public higher education system.

After Rotterdam was bombed during the second world war, the city made an active effort to address social division.

The repugnance to racial intermarriage in a race - conscious society is a consequence of existing social divisions, which impose severe penalties upon persons who fail to respect them.

That's why Murray worries about the growing social divisions in America, which may in the long run be more decisive for our national culture than the economic inequalities that parallel them.

But I'm not big on the style — rigid format, congregation a spectating audience, the clergy / laity divide itself an inequality even in those congregations so opposed to hierarchical social divisions.

We abhor social division, injustice, unfairness and inequality.»

The free schools programme, despite suggestions that it would fuel social divisions and undermine local democracy, now has the tacit support of the Labour Party.

«The Academies programme has been shown to exacerbate social division through their admissions and exclusions policy.

In 2002, Frank Dobson, to increase inclusivity and lessening social division, proposed an amendment to the Education Bill (for England and Wales) to limit the selection rights of faith schools by requiring them to offer at least a quarter of places to children whose parents belong to another or no religion.

[280] Ken Livingstone, the Labour Candidate for Mayor of London in 2012 has argued that «The economic stagnation and cuts being imposed by the Tory government inevitably create social division.»

The level of influence and interference by Russian - linked social media accounts trying to engineer social division in the UK is considerably more extensive than has been reported to date

It follows a formulaic plot structure, but I really liked how it explored the cultural and social divisions amongst classes in Los Angeles.

Robert Pondiscio, senior fellow, and vice president for external affairs of the conservative - leaning education think tank The Thomas Fordham Institute suggests meanwhile that the trend toward emphasizing student differences could be promoting social division rather than unity.

And in a world of accelerating sea level rise and climate change, in which farmland is being degraded and turned to desert, in which ever more land is set aside for carbon storage in the form of forest, and in which the strains of survival increase social divisions and social conflict, there is a new challenge: where will the 2bn climate refugees find new homes?

Last month, Facebook's head of advertising, Rob Goldman, drew fire when he defended Facebook's handling of the incident and argued the Russians bought ads to exploit social divisions, not primarily to sway the 2016 election — a point that some in Washington interpreted as contradicting the indictment.

Facebook said 146 million users saw posts from accounts linked to the Internet Research Agency, a pro-Kremlin outfit that sought to use Facebook to amplify social divisions in the U.S.

Russia has denied Williamson's latest charge too — as it also did last year, when the UK prime minister directly accused Vladimir Putin of seeking to weaponize information in order to sew social division and influence elections in the West, via the medium of fake news posted to social media platforms.

The institute drew particular attention to plans to allow universities to recruit as many students with AAB grades at A-level as they like, a plan which it found would entrench social divisions in the higher education sector.

Put differently, his point is that Eucharist requires the catholic composition of the Eucharistic communion and must transcend all natural and social divisions at a specific place.

Unlike the denominationalism Niebuhr feared, they are building distinctions based more on ritual and doctrine than on social divisions.

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Their work can be seen as part of a battle against social division, and against the precariousness of life under neo-liberal capitalism.

Social Divisions in School Participation and Attainment in India: 1983 - 2004 This study documents the size and nature of «Hindu - Muslim» and «boy - girl» gaps in children's school participation and

It is also particularly prevalent on social media, functioning as a reinforcing variable of social divisions.

The technical distinction between receivers and transmitters reflects the social division of labor into producers and consumers, which in the consciousness industry becomes of particular political importance.

Economic and social divisions may be reinforced by the unequal ability to buy genetic superiority.

Religion has created more f-ing wars and social division than any other cause.

Moreover, the polarization represents a significant realignment of social divisions.

Recent research points out that while «culture» plays a critical role in social divisions, the «culture wars» rhetoric is basically inaccurate.

He also differentiated between the social division of labor and the sexual division of labor.

Russia is already meddling in the midterm elections this year, the top American intelligence officials said, warning that Moscow is using a digital strategy to worsen the country's political and social divisions.

Ministers are attempting to smooth fears from Liberal Democrats that free schools will entrench social division.

Indeed, in his 2009 Demos pamphlet, The Liberal Moment, Clegg dismissed the argument that «an unwillingness to go far enough with redistributive taxes» is part of the explanation of Labour's failure to tackle «social division».

«When the private and voluntary sectors and the pushy and the privileged have had their fill, they will walk away leaving segregated communities, social division, inequality and thousands of children and young people whose life chances have been sacrificed.