Word: socio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Each one of the Census Block Groups is placed into one of 40 categories, each indicating a different socio-economic status. The categories have names like "Estates and Limousines" (at the top end of the scale) and "Hardscrabble" (at the bottom...
...this approach because it treats lack of motivation or a bad work ethic as the consequence of basic changes in the community structure of inner-city ghettos. In place of a culture of poverty, Wilson posits social isolation--a distinction which shifts the problem from the psychological to the socio-economic realm. Instead of blaming poverty and its associated pathologies primarily on the individual, as conservatives do, or on the effects of contemporary racism, as some liberal scholars do, Wilson calls for a "refocused liberal perspective" which emphasizes "the dynamic interplay between ghetto-specific cultural characteristics and social and economic...
...students on financial aid receive assistance and support with the expense of graduating from this school? If not, how many of these students and/or their families choose not to attend because of the cost? This university opens its doors and welcomes students without regard to ethnic and socio-economic back-round, then reminds some on their way out that they are still not on equal footing with their graduating classmates...
...practices of the class gift bear this corruption out. The young fundraisers go through lists of seniors in their houses dividing them by socio-economic standards. Names of individuals rich enough to be earmarked for special treatment are circled, and those whose families are expected to make special contributions in honor of their graduation are crossed off. This elite group will be handled by more veteran fundraisers...
...inclusion of the SAT scores are unfair to poorer students who cannot take test-taking classes to improve their SAT scores. Because of this bias against the poorer Blacks, Cingiser says that many of the Black student-athletes in the Ivy League come from the upper end of the socio-economic spectrum...