Word: socio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Football Against the Enemy, by Simon Kuper. From Scotland to Soweto, Kuper analyzes the socio-political ramifications of soccer in nations throughout the world. How did Person try to use soccer to his advantage in Argentinian politics? How are Eastern European clubs linked with organized crime? Fascinating questions like these are revealed, and then answered, in very readable style...
...they can't tell their story; maybe they can't write about it... It is a human's story, a woman's story, [a woman] who suffered. You don't need to know anything about Nepal. The second book I am writing now is about women who were socio-economic victims of their government. It is not just political... . Anybody could be in this situation...
Smith says he and his clients believed that in many cases, race was not as important a factor in establishing the need for preference as family background, schooling and socio-economic class...
...develop an ethic of learning from others-- especially from those who didn't go to an Ivy League school." Although Harvard's intellectual elitism might be seen by some to be a form of meritocracy, for Capello it isn't enough to justify the feeling of an elite: socio-economic status makes opportunities like attending Harvard available to some more than to others. Although he finds the College diverse, he says he is troubled to find among Harvard students a disconcerting dismissal of others from entirely different experiences. For Capello, "Educated people try to learn from everyone they meet." Those...
...economic spectrum in which Harvard examines race is hardly diverse. We can see by our numbers where the gaps between Harvard and America are most significant, and where Harvard most resembles an ivory tower--not in that it is ivory, but more because it is a socio-economic tower...