Sentences with phrase «social inequality»

There have been repeated attempts to reduce the impact of social inequality on academic achievement.

It was right for people, mainly public sector workers, to express how they felt about cuts to the their services, which they believe will increase social inequality in this country.

[1] The reasons for social inequality can vary, but are often broad and far reaching.

The more I travel, the greater my sense of urgency as an artist to address social inequality and economic disparity through my work.

It would be an immediate and significant victory in the battle against social inequality.

The purpose of the programme is to explore, through the individual stories, the transforming role of the print workshop in overcoming social inequality.

This makes it more likely they will struggle throughout their lives, widening social inequality.

The risk of obesity is disproportionate across different groups and in developed countries, greater social inequality has been linked to a greater risk of obesity [3].

Social inequality refers to relational processes in society that have the effect of limiting or harming a group's social status, social class, and social circle.

As being a homeowner is an important method in acquiring wealth, this situation created fewer opportunities for the black family to acquire wealth, producing social inequality.

While we have seen significant progress in children's living conditions, education and health outcomes over the past 50 years, social inequality remains a significant challenge for our society.

The first section considers the purpose of education, and discusses the social and contemporary context of schools that act simultaneously to create opportunity and also to sort students, creating social inequality.

But for many Indigenous communities, the most promising approaches to infrastructure deficiencies and social inequality lie in the self - help remedies of economic and resource development.

This combined eight different indicators of social inequality from maternal, family and area characteristics including poverty and maternal depression.

Social inequality in coronary risk: central obesity and the metabolic syndrome.

This may increase social inequality, for example with respect to education or income.

Can elementary schools overcome social inequality to teach all kids?

But really, I don't count 20 regular readers as doing well, as much as I rally for micropolitics and the power of mouth - to - mouth actions to «save the environment» (and I don't mean reducing carbon footprints) or reducing social inequalities by reducing the monetary aspects of social life.

Of course, schools and government will need to address social inequalities by ensuring disadvantaged pupils have access to tech outside of school, another challenge in itself.

This new commission is realised in the wake of rising social inequality caused by multiple political and economic crises, both in Marcelle's home country of Brazil and across global society.

A focus of her current work is assessing the relationship between social inequality, psychosocial stress and how these factors may interact with chemical exposures to amplify pollution / health outcome relationships and produce environmental health inequalities.

The burning injustice Mrs May feels about social inequality doesn't end there.

For Labour, the lock of responsibility liberated Miliband to pursue his campaign to address social inequality with a series of commitments on the minimum wage, zero - hours contracts, freezes on energy prices, a cap on train fares and extra investments on the NHS.

By targeting the least efficient properties and the most vulnerable city residents with utility data, and offering free energy efficiency upgrades, Knoxville tackles social inequality while improving climate resilience and reducing emissions.

But then India has also celebrated entrenched income and social inequality so it's not surprising the leaders want to gut the country for their own benefit without consideration for the poor.

My analysis — from a governance angle — reveals a small insight into how ineffective governance processes of the Australian State perpetuate social inequality for disadvantaged Australian citizens.

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

She has co-ordinated a range of initiatives about social inequality across justice, academic and non-profit sectors.

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

«When growing social inequality is, partly, driven by a growing biological inequality, inequalities in society may be harder to overcome and the effects of assortative mating may accumulate with each generation.»

In a keynote speech to the TUC meeting today, Miss Harman will announce plans for a National Equalities Panel to study social inequalities.

The work takes as its starting point the rising social inequality caused by multiple political and economic crises both in Brazil and abroad.

American Lessons: When Social Inequality is Educational Inequality Helsinki University Bulletin, June 15, 2012 «According to [Dean Kathleen] McCartney, American public schools have been suffering from low test scores, high dropout rates and problems related to prejudice.

But there's social inequality as well.

Areas of social inequality include access to voting rights, freedom of speech and assembly, the extent of property rights and access to education, health care, quality housing, traveling, transportation, vacationing and other social goods and services.

More prosaically, economic changes prompted by intelligent computers replacing human workers may exacerbate social inequalities and threaten existing jobs.

In a study published in Current Anthropology, Matthew Velasco, assistant professor of anthropology at Cornell University, explores how head - shaping practices may have enabled political solidarity while furthering social inequality in the region.

Rothstein cites an academic authority to reinforce the claim, quoting University of North Carolina professor Eugene Brooks, who says, «Because of homework, schools either consciously or unconsciously reproduce social inequality.

The issues of profound social inequality affecting South Africa seem to reach an apex in the so - called «Mother City», where economic and racial segregation are at their most acute.

I discuss these ideas in greater detail in Money, Blood and Revolution where I also explain how the circulatory growth model can be used to understand why the excessive use of monetary stimulus — both through low rates and quantitative easing — leads directly to: structurally low economic growth, higher social inequality, deflationary pressures, high government deficits and an inevitable pressure for higher taxation.

Harry Thompson founded Thompsons in 1921 with a vision to fight social inequality and help those who had suffered injustice.

While he would continue to focus on social inequalities over the course of his life and never fully abandon representation, Lewis became increasingly interested in exploring the expressive potential of abstraction, and became an important part of the downtown art scene of the Abstract Expressionists.

Research found the Triple P - Positive Parenting Programme - had minimal impact on families from deprived backgrounds in Glasgow and may even have increased social inequality because of the high drop - out rate.

«It is a privilege to practice again, and we want to take on cases that, through litigation, change social inequalities in favor of the greater good,» Edwards said.

As mentioned, these will likely take the shape of new and progressive social policies that will vastly address the income and social inequalities plaguing the country.