Word: socially
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...Kadrmas decision also contradicts a precedent which bars any state action "[promoting] the creation and perpetuation of a sub-class of illiterates with in our boundaries." In our society, education is the crucial first rung of the social ladder. It is difficult to imagine anything that would more effectively create a "sub-class of citizens" than making education inaccessible to the poor...
Bailing out of our commitment to educate all citizens regardless of income would also have wrenching social implications. In our society, education is the crucial determinant of income and occupational prestige. If large percentages of poor, minority children do not have a chance to learn and start climbing the economic ladder, America will become a society increasingly polarized by race...
...council should not lose sight of its role as the sole organization able to sponsor large-scale social events and concerts on campus, and it should revive opposition to the College alcohol policy...
Some leftist critics such as C. Wright Mills explicitly link the lives of scholars with their scholarship, saying that theories should be viewed as outgrowths of the theorist's social and economic standing...
...Does that mean that Marx's theory wasn't a theory of liberation of oppressed groups?" asks Alexander, who says there are many other instances of social scientists whose lives have contradicted their scholarship...