Word: socio
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...even greater opportunity exists on the secondary and elementary school levels. In many Southern states and in too many Northern cities, Negroes attend public schools in which poor morale, inadequate staffing, and the low socio-economic level of their students often cause education to fail completely. The widespread protests against "defacto segregation" by Negro parents this summer and fall attest to the urgency of this problem...
Whether or not this is true, the battle lines in the fluoridation dispute are clearly drawn between socio-economic groups. The progressive, "good government" people are campaigning for fluoridation, with the support of the University community and residents of the better sections of the city. Opponents of fluoridation generally live in the less wealthy middle and eastern parts of Cambridge. Although it is difficult to identify their leaders with any certainty, a prominent figure among them is Charles H. McGlue, an associate of Boston's former mayor James M. Curley and an extreme conservative...
...handy man with words, Lewis called the 24th Ward "a socio-economic garbage heap." He was fond of pointing out that "there are 75.000 people squeezed into my ward, more than Joliet or Waukegan, and almost as many as Springfield, Ill. We have the highest percentage of high-school dropouts and the highest percentage of people on relief. We have the highest rate of unemployment, the highest rate of juvenile delinquency and a very high rate of apathy and disillusionment." Lewis even moved actively against the miseries of overpopulation. During his last campaign he had his precinct workers distribute "little...
...Pitts point to changes that have occurred in the structure and values of French society. A new hope in the future, an awareness of the need for increased education, increasing urbanization, more democracy on the local level, "a new sense of solidarity and cooperation," are some of the socio-psychological changes Wylie describes. Certain "creative drives, emerging from the conflict between different cultural strands," have, in Pitts view, enabled France to set its economy in order, to redefine its relation toward its old colonies, and to take steps toward the integration of Europe...
...necessarily imply a black racist position. But that it should appear to do so--and in some instances may in fact become racist--is, I think, an inevitable part of the confusion and difficulties that we must expect to accompany greater efforts by Negroes to alter their situation. The socio-political change that these efforts involve is not, after all, the same thing as a discussion of current problems at a Sunday tea party for interracial students...