For Joe Biden to make good on his promise to heal the nation's divisions, he will need to address the social disconnection that underlies 'racialised economics'.
Allowing the senator to appear on the show spouting ill-informed, racist arguments might make for good ratings, but it damages us all.
Sociologist Marcus Anthony Hunter found that for Black patrons of a Black nightclub, the ‘nightly round’ mitigated the impacts of spatial and social isolation.
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As more and more Americans are laid off, employers have to consider the cost of letting their staff go.
Don Cherry, left, at the Manitoba Legislature building in Winnipeg, September 2009, as part of the “Honouring Canada’s Olympic and Paralympic Athletes Day,” and Archie Bunker, right.
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Without implying that Don Cherry is deserving of a second chance given his track record, it wouldn't be a bad thing if bridged differences resulted in redemption instead of cancellation.
Gentrification happens when attempts to build bridges between disenfranchised people and their better-off peers go awry – but it doesn't have to be this way.
Families and the state are equally responsible for contributing towards human capital.
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Social media provide shortcuts to things we yearn for, like connection and validation. Media effects scholars explain the psychological benefits we get from Facebook that make it so hard to quit.
Work hard, read your books, and university will be a breeze…or will it?
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For many students, stress about money is a terrible and unwelcome distraction from their degrees – qualifications they hope can lift themselves and their families out of poverty.
Africa needs to utilise different kinds of capital to grow its entrepreneurs. Nigeria’s Aliko Dangote relied on family savings to start his businesses.
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From a single collaborative workspace in San Francisco in 2005, coworking has ballooned into a popular movement, with an estimated 3,000 spaces around the world. Tim Butcher and Julian Waters-Lynch explain…
More workers are ditching the cubicle for a collaborative coworking space.
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From humble beginnings, the coworking movement has exploded to an estimated 3000 spaces around the world, with hundreds of thousands of people choosing to ditch the home or corporate office in favour of…
Boards will need to be ‘six-capital literate’ in order to assess performance, identify risks and develop strategy.
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Paul Druckman, the CEO of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC), recently led the coalition’s global charge on corporate reporting changes to Australia, where he bolstered support and talked…
Conservatives are happier than liberals because of greater access to “social capital”. Researchers from Australia conducted…
For Claymore children featured in ABC TV’s Four Corners program Growing Up Poor, it is lack of access to social capital - such as that enjoyed by wealthier families - which may trap them in poverty.
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Whatever response we might have had to the MLC story – and there have been many – it has been an insight into one of Australia’s “old school tie” networks. The drama around the sacking of the elite Melbourne…
The Korean presence in Australia is growing rapidly and Sydney should show some Seoul.
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