noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
gender bias/inequality/discrimination (= when one gender is treated unfairly )
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Her research investigates gender bias in the classroom.
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economic
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Markets intensify economic inequality and add to the numbers of the poor. 3.
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Democracy cares about capitalistic economic inequality and is working to reduce it.
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A comprehensive review of quantitative cross-national studies on economic inequality and political violence.
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Such poverty compounds the economic and domestic inequalities typically experienced by women over a lifetime and magnifies such inequalities in old age.
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A further cause for unease is that adherence to a free market philosophy combined with reduced taxation has increased economic inequality .
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Unequal educational gains have further increased social and economic inequalities between regions and classes and have contributed to ethnic and political tensions.
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Hence the Chicago human capital school comes closest to diffusing economic inequality as an issue.
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An increase in economic inequality between rich and poor countries.
great
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When the dimension of gender is added, we can see even greater disadvantage and inequality for females.
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Their conclusions, however, were broadly similar: great inequality and great poverty were inevitable in the absence of great reform.
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More thoughtful Conservatives are aware that a movement towards greater inequality can not continue indefinitely in a democratic society.
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Democracy holds out beliefs and references groups that are not compatible with great inequalities .
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This rethinking is even more necessary for the assumption that the growth of exchange implies greater inequality .
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The greatest inequality between the two countries is for mature students.
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There cold be very great inequalities between individuals when measured over a whole life.
racial
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Questions of peace and war, global distributive justice, gender and racial inequality , and environmental degradation concern us all.
social
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Generally, social inequalities are presumed to be justified, often in terms of tradition.
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The chapter began by posing the possibility of an egalitarian society, a society without social inequality .
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Welfare services are given a promotional role taking into account social inequalities and the need for universal provisions.
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They argue that Marx's class analysis is too simplistic to account adequately for the complexity of social inequality .
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Such beliefs serve to explain the system to its members: they make social inequality appear rational and reasonable.
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Economic and social inequalities are viewed as positive and constructive forces.
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They offer no other means of solving this problem and imply that social inequality is an inevitable feature of human society.
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class
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But its impact on class inequality ... is to sharpen class division.
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In the absence of class inequalities , the state serves all groups and there is no cause for further conflict among groups.
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Social class inequalities , however, remain as strong as ever despite the enormous growth in education provision and expenditure.
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Will current class inequalities in health continue to be important?
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The bus journey alone is eloquent of class inequality .
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Is class inequality in any ways reduced?
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Social class inequalities in housing will therefore be greater than they are in health or education.
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More limited forms of resistance such as normal trade union activity do not alter the fundamental relationships of class inequality in capitalist society.
gender
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Yet finding out what happens in higher education is of utmost importance in understanding the patterns of gender inequality that exist.
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Whatever changes may be occurring in their work as marketers, this gender inequality persists.
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According to Angie Romorola, gender inequalities are very well entrenched.
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He was untiring in his efforts to overcome racial divisions and gender inequalities .
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She demonstrates that policies of amelioration will do in more than touch the surface unless fundamental gender inequalities are addressed.
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The significance of the class and gender inequalities which are intertwined with the racism that black students encounter is thus underplayed.
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However, it is generally recognized that gender inequality in education is in many respects different from inequality of class.
health
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Unfortunately, these improvements have not been shared equally and health inequalities within and among countries are entrenched.
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Discussion Our evidence suggests that a new approach to social stratification is required to assess health inequalities in childhood.
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Second, the health improvements have not been shared equally and health inequalities among and within countries remain entrenched.
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And it will have a target to narrow health inequalities between social groups and areas.
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Such data, therefore, represent clear evidence of health inequalities among children aged 1-15.
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These new challenges will potentially worsen regional and national health inequalities .
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Contemporary public health must therefore encompass the interrelated tasks of reducing social and health inequalities and achieving health-sustaining environments.
income
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In other words, general levels of income inequality have a positive effect on the incidence of political violence.
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Over time in unfettered markets income inequalities grow.
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The bias in the contributions is towards quite strong views of equity if not egalitarianism, but different income inequality ideologies exist.
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We shall pursue the debate over income inequality in Chapter 37.
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Thirdly, there has been a widening of income inequalities among households with children.
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Government has assumed the responsibility for ameliorating income inequality in our society.
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However, when considering income inequality , it is the income distribution among individuals that has emerged as most useful.
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Their comparative analysis tests the linear and non-linear forms of the relationship between income inequality and political violence.
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grow
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Between the late 1960s and early 1980s the population of Porto Alegre grew rapidly while inequalities widened.
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Macro-economic statistics can conceal growing inequalities within countries.
increase
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Critics of popular capitalism argue that it is a programme for increasing inequality and poverty.
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A further cause for unease is that adherence to a free market philosophy combined with reduced taxation has increased economic inequality .
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Unequal educational gains have further increased social and economic inequalities between regions and classes and have contributed to ethnic and political tensions.
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Private sector led regeneration has profoundly increased the inequality of access to both private and public goods in the area.
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The Gini coefficients in Table 9-2 suggest increasing inequality between 1975/6 and 1981/2 and constant inequality between 1981/2 and 1984/5.
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Some said it has increased the inequalities of income within countries, as well as between poor and rich ones.
reduce
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An equal opportunity policy, reducing a, would, for given earnings inequality , reduce the inequality of consumption.
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Using political power to reduce market inequalities requires a high-wire balancing act.
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The task, then, of any government attempting to reduce inequalities in the geographical distribution of services is very difficult.
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While the policies in a socialist state attempt to reduce inequalities significantly, they do not aim for total economic equality.
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His prescriptions sound modest: Cushion people against economic shocks, widen the circle of prosperity, reduce inequality .
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Hence the welfare state contained but did not reduce social inequality .
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Where modern values have been incorporated they have often not reduced inequality .
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The last forty years have shown that simply increasing the volume of services does not necessarily reduce social or geographical inequalities .
widen
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To back this up they claim that a reliance on market forces has widened pay inequalities and also significantly increased unemployment.
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The government has to address widening inequality .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Most of the complaints centered on the inequality of the justice system.
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signs of economic inequality
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Social inequality is likely to increase in the 21st century.
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Social inequality tended to increase rather than lessen in the 1980s.
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The report looks at inequality in education.
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The statistics show the growing inequality of income in America.
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The study shows that large inequalities still exist between men and women.
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There are still a lot of inequalities in society.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An equal opportunity policy, reducing a, would, for given earnings inequality , reduce the inequality of consumption.
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And inequality of income is one reason inflation is nonexistent.
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In spite of these considerations, Weber certainly did regard capitalism as a class society - economic relations form the basis of inequality .
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It can therefore be argued that biological differences become biological inequalities only to the extent that they are defined as such.
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Some economists attribute much of the rising wage inequality in this country to the shift in favor of the most skilled workers.
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The inequality in life chances has therefore intentionally been reinforced in old age.
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Their conclusions, however, were broadly similar: great inequality and great poverty were inevitable in the absence of great reform.
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While the policies in a socialist state attempt to reduce inequalities significantly, they do not aim for total economic equality.