Sentences with phrase «upward class mobility»

From barbarous jabs swapped between friends, to quiet riverside reflections about inaccessible upward class mobility, to sheepishly confessed thoughts on God's real estate, Hockenberry and Benson have written a game which easily sits next to the likes of Oxenfree, Gone Home, and Kentucky Route Zero as a modern day classic.

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The difference here is that the best and the brightest go to the army more often than the lower classes, as opposed to in America where it's a way for upward mobility.

Our vision of maturing in the Christian life implies that upward mobility as middle - class achievers ought to take second place to the project of becoming upwardly mobile in terms of maturing in faith.

The middle classes, for their part, «are realizing that their dreams of upward mobility for themselves and their children will not be realized, and they find few if any political options which challenge them.

Of all the empirically available stratification systems, class allows for the highest degree of social mobility (upward as well as downward).

Yet he remains discontent with the prospect of upward mobility into middle - class mediocrity.

As such, mobility is an important factor for upward social mobility for middle class Americans, where they can increase their earnings and their life standards...

As such, mobility is an important factor for upward social mobility for middle class Americans, where they can increase their earnings and their life standards by moving to higher - earning jobs in dynamic regions.

«I was born and raised in upstate New York and the chance to work for a Governor I respect and to be part of his ambitious agenda to create upward economic mobility for the middle class and give voice to those who need it most matters more to me than partisan politics,» Comella said.

«I was born and raised in upstate New York and the chance to work for a governor I respect and to be part of his ambitious agenda to create upward economic mobility for the middle class and give voice to those who need it most matters more to me than partisan politics.

Even though inequality has lately come to the fore as a public issue, two widely held American beliefs persist — first, that the U.S. is largely a classless society and, second, that people shed or discard the vestiges of their social class roots when they achieve upward mobility.

Effortlessly authentic in its depiction of working - class despair and the hope engendered by hip - hop's promise of upward social mobility, 8 Mile brings to the forefront the lower - class anger bubbling just under the surface of Eminem's music.

After hitting us with the raw facts of the crime, as well as a phone call in which he attempts to connect with the original prosecutor and is stone - walled by her cold refusal to talk, Ford goes back into his family's history to unveil a story of racism and optimism, of what hope and hardship and upward mobility meant to a working - class African - American family in the middle of the century.

When boiled down, the film feels like an indictment of class stricture, and even Haemi's choice of lover seems to double as a binary decision for cosy squalor or fast - tracked upward mobility.

In a tradition ranging from the kitchen - sink realist films of the late»50s and early»60s to the contemporary works of Mike Leigh and Andrea Arnold, English movies set among the working classes have tended to have fatalistic trajectories and miserabilist aesthetics, underlining their drabness to reflect their characters» sense of hopelessness and to visually convey a lack of upward mobility.

At its best, this entertaining biopic looks past the headlines to deeper questions of class and upward mobility, as Harding faces off against not just the other skaters, but also judges and promoters who resent someone of her low - income upbringing dominating the sport.

There are myriad recommendations in the book, which Mike boils down into three major themes: First, balance our fixation on college completion with renewed attention to career and technical education; next prioritize the needs of «strivers» — the low - income students who are working hardest to make it to the middle class; finally, encourage all students to follow the «success sequence» — including delaying parenthood — as the surest means of avoiding pitfalls that push kids off the path to upward mobility.

Our schools can't do it all, or all by themselves, but there's still plenty of low - hanging fruit that most schools have yet to pluck — tested strategies that can help low - income and working - class kids and spur upward mobility nationwide.

There's truth in the lament, voiced from both left and right, that American society is separating into haves and have - nots; the prospects of upward mobility are dimming both for the poorest and for those in what we've traditionally called the «working class.»

The reason why marketing schools in this way is such a successful method of attracting white, middle - class families is because of the «growing importance of educational attainment» in terms of the labor market and for upward social mobility (Dougherty, 2012, p. 220; Scherger & Savage, 2010).

Nonetheless, it is remarkable that a highly class - conscious people like the Romans believed in the possibility of upward mobility for the skilled and ambitious, even among the most oppressed of people.

Collected co-pays and attended computer training classes and seminars for upward mobility.

As candidates from both parties jump into the 2016 presidential race, here's one point they would all do well to keep in mind: Economic inequality is growing, upward mobility is stalling, and the middle class is shrinking.