Sentences with phrase «social inequality while»

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.

According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, wealthier people are more likely to donate to charity if they endorse social inequality while less wealthy people are more likely to make donations if they endorse greater equality.

Legalizing the trade would further institutionalize India's glaring social inequalities while providing an unfair advantage to rich nations like the United States (see «A Transplant Tourist,» below).

Not exact matches

But ahead of the report launch on 24 January 2017, I'd like to share something that I discovered while researching and talking to [business, government and social] leaders around the world about one dimension of inequality: gender.

But as has been pointed out many times on RPE, the Nordics manage to rank highly on economic competitiveness rankings while have superior social outcomes, especially in regards to poverty and inequality.

The government is hurtling towards the EU's emergency exit with no credible plan for the future of British trade and European cooperation, all the while ignoring — beyond soundbites and inadequate programmes — the crises of housing, education, the NHS and social and regional inequality which are undermining the fabric of our nation and feeding a populist surge.

One such pattern stipulates that revolutions are rarely isolated instances but come in waves, while another points to social and economic inequalities as root causes for violent upheavals.

«Alistair Darling had to deliver the toughest budget in decades but he has positioned Labour as the party for jobs and social justice while exposing the Tories for being the party of cuts and inequality.

While often presenting himself as a «socialist» and making an appeal to deep anger over growing social inequality, Sanders has long functioned as a run - of - the - mill Democrat, caucusing with the party in Congress and backing the U.S. military war machine, says Hawkins.

While de Blasio has taken up many important social issues — racial profiling, early childhood education, housing, and others — it remains to be seen if he can with the limited power of a mayor really affect the issue of economic inequality, that is the overwhelming power of capital in the world's preeminent financial center.

Social inequality refers to disparities in the distribution of economic assets and income as well as between the overall quality and luxury of each person's existence within a society, while economic inequality is caused by the unequal accumulation of wealth; social inequality exists because the lack of wealth in certain areas prohibits these people from obtaining the same housing, health care, etc. as the wealthy, in societies where access to these social goods depends on wSocial inequality refers to disparities in the distribution of economic assets and income as well as between the overall quality and luxury of each person's existence within a society, while economic inequality is caused by the unequal accumulation of wealth; social inequality exists because the lack of wealth in certain areas prohibits these people from obtaining the same housing, health care, etc. as the wealthy, in societies where access to these social goods depends on wsocial inequality exists because the lack of wealth in certain areas prohibits these people from obtaining the same housing, health care, etc. as the wealthy, in societies where access to these social goods depends on wsocial goods depends on wealth.

«While gender diversity and inequality are well document topics in management, sociology and labor economics, few have looked closely at the gendered negative relationships within the workplace from a social relationship perspective,» said Merluzzi.

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.

Night features commentary on both race and consumerism, a theme that receives further expansion in Dawn and Day, while Land comments on social inequality.

While the film does have a loosely Dickensian feel, it is not the Dickens of Lean, with its bleak shadows, striking expressionist angles and emphasis on social inequality.

This inspires warm admiration for the subjects while stirring up rousing anger at our city's social inequality — Kartemquin at its best.

Carr's novel goes into tremendous detail as it explores the early origins of psychological profiling and forensic science, while also offering an eye - opening portrait of urban life under 19th century capitalism, in a time of tremendous wealth inequality and social injustice.

In multi-ethnic societies, including Turkey, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Guatemala, the paper shows that imposing a dominant language through a school system — while sometimes a choice of necessity — has frequently been a source of grievance linked to wider issues of social and cultural inequality.

While we still have a long way to go to combat social and economic inequality — and to address the effects of deindustrialization, globalization and automation — it's wrong not to acknowledge the real progress of the last eight years.

While at Stanford, Ericka has worked in partnership with a California school district to help answer high priority and actionable research questions; mentored first and second year doctoral students as a part of the Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education program; served as a doctoral student representative on the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Interdisciplinary Policy Studies Area Committee; and served as a teaching assistant for quantitative and theoretical courses on educational inequality.

While at Harvard, Abena has been an Inequality & Criminal Justice Doctoral Fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy, a Spencer Foundation Early Career Scholar in New Civics, and a Julius B. Richmond Fellow at the Center on the Developing Child.

While a school voucher proposal is likely, critics say that DeVos» voucher plan would exacerbate educational inequality, that «voucher programs do not work to improve student achievement», and «voucher programs and charter school expansion drain both money and social capital from the traditional public schools, creating even more of an imbalanced, two - tiered system.»

Thurston Hopkins was one of Britain's greatest photojournalists and, while working for Picture Post, captured the humanity, spirit and social inequality and contradictions of life during these hard times.

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.

Referencing medieval Schandmaske, or shame masks, Black's video Credits (2016) correlates different social stigmas while alluding to lending practices that tend to deepen existing racial and economic inequalities.

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.

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.

While Eisenman's early work overtly explored identity, gender, sexuality, family dynamics or inequality through provocative subject matter, Winter Solstice 2012 Dinner Party articulates her more recent preoccupation with portraits of individuals or groups engaged in different social activities — inspired equally by French Impressionist bourgeois café scenes, the dystopian visions of James Ensor and the casual gatherings with friends and fellow New Yorkers.

Fox occasionally gestures to the likes of «political, economic, and social inequality,» but energy sources are his real target: fossil fuels are the root of evil, while renewables hold the sparks of a new world.

Similarly, racial inequality and discrimination, while far from gone from the world including the West, is rapidly disappearing from the West at least where social and religious factors aren't a perpetual irritant.

While the cost of solving for inequality may seem daunting from an economic, social and political standpoint, keep in mind that the wisely targeted investments in proven supports and programs can deliver significant returns in individual flourishing and better economic and social outcomes for society.

While there is evidence that use of self - rated health measures is likely to be a reasonable measure of social inequalities found in direct measures of health (Subramanian and Ertel 2008; Subramanian and Ertel 2009), less is known about the validity of mother's reports of child health and self - reported parenting information.