What we cannot dispute, however, is that when offenders from one class of society receive harsher treatment than offenders from another class, the integrity of our entire judicial system suffers.
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National policy favored business and promoted rapid economic growth, creating a 100 million person middle class society.
There's no straightforward link between your actual position in society and what class you think you're in, says Savage.
In particular, the notion that putting more kids through college can restore the middle-class society we used to have is wishful thinking.
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"I can't imagine going to a warzone now, in the 21st Century, let alone a woman whose dad was a millionaire, from upper class society, upping sticks and going off, " says Ms Worthington.
And I've taught the Oncology Nursing Society's chemotherapy class to thousands of nurses around the country.
He could not help feeling like a kind of alien in the society of middle-class children of white-collar workers.
Brazilians have long argued that blacks are poor only because they are at the bottom of the social pyramid in other words, that society is stratified by class, not race.
Ask most what is the biggest economic risk facing China today and you will probably hear about food inflation, property prices, or growing imbalances between the rich and working class in society.
The residents prosperous, Volvo-driving, school-fee-paying middle-class pillars of society are starting to go wild in the streets.
The second world war and its aftermath provoked seething debate in Egypt's class-ridden society.
In a relatively class-less society, the "school" you attend is an important badge of identity and success.
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Coders are part of a "privileged class in our society right now, " says Jennifer Pahlka, the founder of San Francisco-based Code for America.
And according to a panel of experts gathered here Wednesday at a forum sponsored by the Federalist Society, the number of class-action cases filed in state courts has dropped off dramatically.
The United States is becoming an increasingly class-stratified society.
But if l had known in 1978 that Belfast was going to become so corporate and the way things were going to turn out, l would have been fighting for a wage-less, money-less, class-less society.
Iran is a society that is deeply fractured along class, social and gender lines.
The student movement has struck a chord in a society that is increasingly middle-class but remains highly unequal.
He promises a post-racial society but conducts a campaign of class warfare.
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Redistribution taking from those that have produced and accumulated wealth to give to working people and the middle class, to achieve more equal results for society overall, could never remotely produce the dramatic gains for working people and the middle class as economic growth has, and can in the future, if only we would let it rip.
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Our own analysis suggests that the middle class begins to influence a society when the HDI exceeds 0.70, and truly dominates that society when it exceeds 0.90.
Almost monolithically middle class until the 1980s, German society has grown more unequal today.
Both signed into law this spring legislation creating a new class of corporations accountable to serve society as well as shareholders.
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The answer, as Dr Evans shows in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, is that sneaks are first-class in one particular department.
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From the French Revolution to the Chinese one, most revolutionary leaders have been university-educated, middle-class people who were marginalized by society and had their hopes thwarted.
For a society that remains mostly poor or tenuously middle class it was not the possession of big assets that rankled so much as the flaunting of baubles, such as the flashy cars and villas in Tunisia's most exclusive districts.
The day that I decided I wanted to live, I went back to school, made straight As, graduated at the top of my class, on the National Honor Society, became the first person in my family on either side, to graduate from college.
But, despite the emergence of a growing middle class, Chile remains a highly stratified society.
According to the Royal Society, research that has been assessed as world class attracts around 90% of university science funding.
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