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Tag: Social CHange

Posted on 5 March, 201413 January, 2017

Trickle-Down Social Change?

savannahnewsstoryThis is an interesting news story, for it prompts us to ask about what constitutes a social change that’s worth calling a change: opening up elite institutions to non-traditional or minority members or changing the conditions that require elite institutions in the first place? Continue reading “Trickle-Down Social Change?”

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