It is a failure of parenting, a failure of society, a failure of politicians.
Images of American citizens waiting in line for food and jobs during the 1930s are used to illustrate the failure of society and government in the United States.
This may be of little value to a visitor, but it is crucial for the people who live there; a failure of government does not equal a failure of society.
How sad to think that teachers today suffer the blame (and the consequences) for the failure of others and, indeed, in some respects, the failure of society as a whole to help students focus, learn and improve.
Referring to the failure of society to act on the scientific knowledge around climate change, he points out that it is not the amount of data you have that is important but how effective one is at making it relevant.
Whether you call Pruitt-Igoe's short, troubled existence a failure of architecture, a failure of policy, or a failure of society, its fate remains bound up with, and reflective of, the fate of many American cities in the mid-20th century.
There was one moment of real clarity over planned new measures of poverty, when he argued forcefully that being poor isn't actually the poor's fault; that it's not about addiction or dysfunctional parenting or some kind of individual moral failing, but about a "collective failure" of society.
What really did for Jade Goody and what drove me from school at the age of 16 was not so much the failure of the comprehensive system, although of course it does have its failures, but the failure of society; a society that does not know what to do with its under-educated young people because it doesn't really need them in a globalised world where the hard labour of production has been outsourced.
The problem for women, on this view, is not liberalism but the failure of society and the State to properly instantiate liberal principles.
