Word: socio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...model minority theory says that Asian-Americans have succeeded by adopting the "correct" values, the values of the work ethic. Conversely, Black failure to adopt these values has resulted in their socio-economic problems...
...Marriage in Black and White). With less than 24 hours' notice, he filled the gap on the afternoon panel left by Glenn Loury's failure to appear due to illness. Washington, radically opposed to Loury, emphasized the significant differences between Black and white intellectuals by deploying a socio-ethical analysis...
...dwell upon appeasing libidos instead of hunger. Emecheta claims that Western women have, in fact, undervalued themselves by staying within the capitalist framework and focusing on the need to "relearn how to be a woman." Her claim echoes other Third World feminists who call for a return to a socio-economic basis for feminism; most important, this claim points out the viability of a movement grounded in marginality as a strategy of reform...
...definition you're learning more about yourself," says Postolos. "When I go down there, I put my life aside. I focus on other people and listen to them. It's helped me see beyond differences in people." When you listen to someone very different from you, from a different socio-economic group, race, or country perhaps, Postolos says, "you can really accept and, in a very limited sense, begin to understand what part of that person's life is like...
...computer owners most certainly constitute a socio-economic class. The Harvard Establishment, nonetheless, has forestalled the formation of class-consciousness among them by a clever, two-pronged strategy. First, through the process of cultural hegemony, the University has spread its cheery vision of the Computer Age so effectively that even those unable to afford computers have adopted its values...