Sentences with phrase «social segregation of»

Not exact matches

In the election of an African - American president less than a half - century after the end of official racial segregation in much of the country, these Americans see the triumph of the values enshrined in the US Constitution over America's legacy of social, political, and economic prejudice.

The segregation of social conservatism as merely one alternative among several is itself is a bad sign.

This fact, with the resulting intermixtures of good and evil, is clearly illustrated by differing attitudes toward racial segregation in the North and South of the United States, or the presence of nontheological social factors in the creation of the various denominations of the Christian Church.

He does not ignore political and economic developments, but he pays special attention to social issues, including, as he says in his preface, «the transformation of gender relations, the regeneration of the home, the disciplining of leisure and pleasure, and the establishment of segregation.»

The plain truth is that white theologians, even those of the social gospel period, ignored the situation of oppression suffered by blacks and made few and superficial connections between their theology and the egregious evils of slavery and segregation.

Segregation by color is a hold over of the bigotry that characterized the social norms of american society.

The editors added: «A great deal of what might be called the silent public opinion of the south has already marked off segregation as a doomed and dying social arrangement.»

With the rapid development of metropolitanism few American communities will escape the concomitant problems of residential segregation, deteriorating public schools, physical and social planning, and a host of other problems that will have to be solved by the people who move most decisively and swiftly.

In a general sense, one can speak of four areas of struggle: (i) the system of economic exploitation and social stratification (racial segregation, women's working conditions, unemployment and the new legislation of «flexibility and «deregulation); (ii) the ideology (the way of representing the world, social relations, etc.) that justifies the system — the new ideologies of race superiority, the religious legitimation of competition and the so - called free market as the only and sufficient way of organizing human life (iii) the ways in which the consciousness of the oppressed, is led to interject this ideology of domination and to develop a feeling of self - denial and self - devaluation; (iv) the atomization of the society through the weakening and destruction of neighborhood, workers and local cultural manifestations.

They expressed the conviction that «the silent public opinion of the South has already marked off segregation as a doomed and dying social arrangement» (June 2, 1954).

«Collectively there's greater residential segregation than 10 years ago,» says Hastings Donnan, a professor of social anthropology at Queen's University Belfast.

«There has never been any evidence that structural change raises standards, but there is a wealth of evidence to show that it can lead to social segregation.

«There is, however, evidence that the Coalition Government's free schools programme could lead to social segregation which will be to the detriment of BME children and young people.

Critics of the policy have argued affluent areas will be «cleansed» of welfare claimants causing social segregation and destitution in larger households.

Social science has a long tradition of using computational and agent - based modelling approaches (e.g. Schelling's Model of Segregation), but the new challenge is to feed real - life, and sometimes even real - time information into those systems to get gain rapid insights into the validity of research hypotheses.

On the housing segregation by income and class, I would much prefer to use analogies with the Parisian suburbs, gated communities, and (perhaps over-dramatically) the social stratification of Dickensian London, or (most accurately) the electoral gerrymandering of Shirley Porter.

This leads to the segregation of children by ethnicity, social origin and first language.

«All of the evidence confirms that «free schools» and academies widen educational inequality, lead to social segregation and are the most expensive type of school provision.

Even where schools do legally discriminate on religious grounds, this can lead to ethnic, socio - economic and religious segregation of pupils in practice and create wider problems for social cohesion and equality.

However, evidence from a range of sources released in recent months has been overwhelming in its condemnation of the move, revealing that removing the so - called 50 % cap on religious selection would not only lead to increased levels of segregation in schools and communities, but also damage social mobility and reduce the access of parents to their local schools.

But those provide a way of protecting against racism, even with measures like affirmative action or the fight against segregation based in the fallout from racism (social / cultural / geographical segregation, for example).

«The Secretary of State suggests that he wants free schools to be engines of social mobility but in many cases the free schools announced so far will only fragment communities and lead to greater social segregation and separation.

«What's more, the introduction of free schools has led to increased segregation where pupils from the same social background increasingly concentrate in certain attractive free schools.

Real education reform would include broader social reform that attacks poverty, segregation, and under - resourcing of schools in poor, segregated communities,» Hawkins said....

Social and religious segregation is rising, aided in part by the current government's commitment to free schools — state - funded schools that are outside of local authority control.

Hawkins has also said that many of the problems with schools in disadvantaged communities are attributable to the broader social problems of poverty and segregation.

Albeit on a small scale, free schools have increased social segregation, even in the context of the relatively egalitarian education system.

«The historic role of third parties has been to force issues neglected by the major parties into public debate - issues like the abolition of slavery, women's suffrage, the 8 - hour day, Social Security, and ending segregation.

Urban Renewal: Chicago, 1965 When cities of the future were imagined in the 1920s and»30s, they did not include areas of economic depression or racial and social segregation.

«However, we also think that traditional measures of childhood socioeconomic status may not accurately reflect the childhood social environments of African Americans, which is quite different from that of U.S. whites because of the history of racial discrimination and segregation.

When it comes to online dating, segregation appears to be alive and well... The researchers expected to find homophily, a social science term which means love of the same, in their analysis but they were surprised that the...

While formal attempts like diversity awareness training in the workplace and in learning institutions like colleges have had only mixed results, bringing two families of two or even more diverse culture through marriage may provide a more natural and effective way to end social segregation.

The sharp segregation of these groups from mainstream opportunity limits their chances for social mobility and encourages prejudice against them.

Had his seminal work focused on both the administrative problems and the social systems of school, Coleman later wrote, «our knowledge of how to overcome problems of racial segregation would be far more advanced than it is.»

Increasing the number of faith schools could lead to «increased social segregation, with a risk of lower social mobility», according to a new report.

Despite the challenges of isolating the impact of school desegregation on student achievement, a small but growing body of research provides valuable evidence on the relationship between segregation policies and students» academic and social outcomes.

To begin, many legal historians and constitutional scholars seem to agree that the equal protection clause, as originally understood, did not prohibit segregation, because integration — including integrated schools — involved a «social» right, not a civil right, and therefore fell outside the ambit of that clause.

The Casey Review found that segregation and social exclusion has reached «worrying levels» and makes a number of recommendations for how to bridge divides between people and bind communities together.

Taking into account the fact that the average faith school admits fewer pupils from poor backgrounds than the average non faith school, the EPI concluded that increasing the numbers of faith schools «would come at the price of increased social segregation».

Teske and Schneider caution policymakers, however, that a rising tide of evidence suggests that school vouchers may lead to greater social stratification and racial segregation.

Segregation by social class persisted, and black pupils were unofficially segregated in much of the North and West and officially segregated in all of the South.

She added: «The Secretary of State suggests that he wants free schools to be engines of social mobility but in many cases the free schools announced so far will only fragment communities and lead to greater social segregation and separation.»

The report puts figures on a phenomenon we all know happens, but which has not been properly documented previously, one which contributes to the social segregation and inequality of our education system: the extent to which parents have moved house or used even more unorthodox methods, such as faking piety or accessing an accommodating address in a desirable catchment temporarily in order to cheat the system.

In particular, the ability to opt out by choosing an alternative to the public system — including private, parochial and, more recently, charter schools — can lead to the sorting and segregation of children by social groups.

«This means that the kind of social segregation experienced by children in selective areas in England, and the damage to social cohesion that ensues, is for no clear gain.

Because movement conservatives of that time such as William F. Buckley Jr., and Barry Goldwater didn't view state - sanctioned racism as the great moral question that it was, because their fetish for preserving tradition led them to believe that the federal government didn't have the obligation to address segregation, because of their concerns about communism and the expansion of federal government, and because they viewed the civil disobedience by activists such as Martin Luther King (as well as their push to force social change) as an affront to the order they craved, they essentially gave succor to Jim Crow segregationists even if that wasn't their original intent.

Casey's review of community cohesion and extremism, published last year, found that segregation and social exclusion were at «worrying levels» in some parts of Britain.

These practices are: 1) inclusive education is not a separate initiative from general education, 2) students receiving special education services are general education students first, 3) decisions about student services are based on individual student needs, 4) the district must raise its expectations for students with disabilities and end their social and physical segregation, and 5) the success of every student is the collective responsibility of all district educators.

In the past, political coalitions of influential leaders have placed responsibility on schools to solve national political, social, and economic problems ranging from segregation, to Cold War rivalry with the Soviet Union, to the United States» current economic struggle as it competes with global rivals.

While many of the arguments against Mt. Laurel are easily dismissed, several articulate many of the challenges that must be faced in tackling problems of social stratification and segregation.