Sentence examples for reinforcing class from inspiring English sources

The "towers in the park" could be seen as reinforcing class stratification: an enclave of luxurious glass towers overlooking the poverty-stricken neighborhood of the Lower Ninth Ward.

Language Arts Readad T. C. Boyle's novel "The Tortilla Curtain" and write an essay in response to the following question: "What role do gated communities play in reinforcing class stereotypes?" Explain your reasoning.

Instead of serving as a springboard to social mobility as it did for the first decades after World War II, college education today is reinforcing class stratification, with a huge majority of the 24 percent of Americans aged 25 to 29 currently holding a bachelor's degree coming from families with earnings above the median income.

In her 1981 book, Ain't I a Woman?: Black women and feminism, bell hooks notes that the feminist movement pretends to speak for all women but was made up of primarily white, middle class women who, because of their narrow perspective, did not represent the needs of poor women and women of color and ended up reinforcing class stereotypes (hooks 1981).

A century ago, John Dewey noted that formal education is commonly used to reinforce class separation.

That they reinforce class privilege has always been obvious, given the displays of formal wear and fancy cars.

Instead of providing a ladder to a better life, higher education too often reinforces class- and race-based disparities.

Public schools do not just reinforce class barriers, they actively create them, and deserve no state encouragement at all.

The article asks, "Will the trends that have reinforced class lines while papering over the distinctions persist?" How does it answer that question?

Putnam presents American schools as neither the enemy nor the cure, but rather as sites that reinforce class divides, despite teachers' attempts to level the playing field.

It was stymied by the mechanisms of a class-bound education system, class-segregated housing, a media and cultural landscape that has persistently reinforced class prejudice, and a bizarre historic tendency for members of the British electorate to vote against their own interests.