relativa parcialidad

15:25 Dec 26, 2017
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Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.
Spanish term or phrase: relativa parcialidad
I just have no idea what the author wants to say here. Talking about unemployment, solutions for it, leading a decent, life, etc.

Mostly very well-written castilian Spanish and other variants to UK English
TIA!

Original
Verse impedido de llevar una vida digna constituye un drama personal cuya responsabilidad atañe al propio sistema y, por ende, al conjunto de la sociedad en cuyo seno se propicia. Las diferentes propuestas y ensayos de solución hasta ahora acometidos no han devenido en mejoras más allá de la coyuntura y una **relativa parcialidad**. La evolución del empleo no se ha sustraído al devenir de los ciclos, alternando etapas de depresión e inestable prosperidad.

Rough draft
Being prevented from leading a dignified life is a personal tragedy, and the responsibility for this lies with the system itself and, as such, with the whole of society on which it is founded. The different proposals and pilot solutions that have been tried so far have not resulted in improvements above and beyond the current situation and XXXXX. The evolution of employment has not been distanced from the evolution of the cycle of alternating stages of depression and unstable prosperity.
S Ben Price
Spain
Local time: 13:11


Summary of answers provided
4 +1relative favouritism
JohnMcDove
4raproach in terms of/with regard to bias
Marcelo González
3relative bias
David Hollywood


Discussion entries: 7





  

Answers


1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
relative bias


Explanation:
I would suggest

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Note added at 3 hrs (2017-12-26 19:00:47 GMT)
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good on the rest

David Hollywood
Local time: 08:11
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 84
Notes to answerer
Asker: I considered that, but what does it mean? I'm trying to make this more readable, and I don't know what the author is trying to say.

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8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
relative favouritism


Explanation:
What I understand --and it took me a while to come to grasp it, but as I am writing this feel pretty confident-- is that "parcialidad", is as noted "bias", but given the different "proposals and pilot solutions", these tend to be "biased", that is, these tend to benefit some specific people on an arbitrary (biased) basis, thus, "favouritism"

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/favouritism

That is, the "pilot" is going to give job opportunities to
a) workers from 30-40 year old
b) ...
c) ...

That is putting conditions for some people, (bias, discrimination... call it what you want).

If you have theses qualities a, b and c, then you will get an improvement in your conditions, if not, tough...

Would that help to clarify it in English?

Merry Christmas and a Happy New 2018.

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Note added at 10 hrs (2017-12-27 02:01:48 GMT)
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What about "a fair degree of favouritism"?

Some "positive discrimination" probably fits the bill even better!
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/positive_discri...

"unfair preference"
"preferential treatment"

These would also communicate the idea very clearly, in my view.

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Note added at 10 hrs (2017-12-27 02:09:50 GMT)
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Also, in the context, "coyuntura" here is not just "situation", but "favorable situation".

In other words, beyond some lucky event, beyond some "favorable situation" and some inevitable favouritism or positive discrimination, there is no much improvement.



JohnMcDove
United States
Local time: 04:11
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Vuka Mijuskovic: As described in the comments, it would be "a certain degree of positive discrimination"
1 day 10 hrs
  -> Thank you very much, Vuka. :-) Yes, that's the way it makes more sense. Happy New Year! (In a couple of days!)
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
raproach in terms of/with regard to bias


Explanation:
...above and beyond the currrent situation and (above) raproach with regard to bias

I think something along these lines might be what author means here.

above/beyond raproach
https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/above...

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Note added at 7 hrs (2017-12-26 23:04:13 GMT)
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...beyond the current situation, as well as (beyond) reproach...

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Note added at 9 hrs (2017-12-27 00:35:08 GMT)
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En otras palabras, soluciones que van más allá del aquí y ahora (es decir, no hay soluciones a largo plazo) y 'más allá' de toda duda en torno a la imparcialidad, es decir, soluciones que no se puedan tachar de parciales.

Me parece que la clave es 'más allá': se aplica tanto a 'coyuntura' como 'relativa parcialidad'.

This is how I understand it at least. I hope this helps!

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Note added at 11 hrs (2017-12-27 03:11:25 GMT)
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...improvements beyond the current situation/state of affairs, and that are (considered) beyond raproach [i.e., invulnerable to accusations] when it comes to (accusations of) bias

Marcelo González
United States
Local time: 01:11
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 91

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  JohnMcDove: Hi, Marcelo. What the text is saying is that no matter how you tackle the problem we are not getting improvements beyond the (positive) situation (that may happen by chance) and some test not impartial nor unbiased at all././Not really. See discussion.
3 hrs
  -> Hi John. I think we sort of agree. No improvements beyond the current state of affairs and beyond raproach/criticism in terms of bias.
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