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  2. Oppression - Wikipedia

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    Race or racial oppression is defined as "burdening a specific race with unjust or cruel restraints or impositions. Racial oppression may be social, systematic, institutionalized, or internalized. Social forms of racial oppression include exploitation and mistreatment that is socially supported."

  3. Anti-oppressive practice - Wikipedia

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    Anti-oppressive practice is an interdisciplinary approach primarily rooted within the practice of social work that focuses on ending socioeconomic oppression.It requires the practitioner to critically examine the power imbalance inherent in an organizational structure with regards to the larger sociocultural and political context in order to develop strategies for creating an egalitarian ...

  4. Kyriarchy - Wikipedia

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    In feminist theory, kyriarchy (/ ˈ k aɪ r i ɑːr k i /) is a social system or set of connecting social systems built around domination, oppression, and submission.The word was coined by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza in 1992 to describe her theory of interconnected, interacting, and self-extending systems of domination and submission, in which a single individual might be oppressed in some ...

  5. Internalized oppression - Wikipedia

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    In social justice theory, internalized oppression is the resignation by members of an oppressed group to the methods of an oppressing group and their incorporation of its message against their own best interest. [1]

  6. Class discrimination - Wikipedia

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    In addition, structures of oppression amplify and feed into each other, [16] intensifying and altering the forms of discrimination experienced by those in different social positions. In the UAE , Western workers and local nationals are given better treatment or are preferred, [ 19 ] illustrating how institutional biases based on class and ...

  7. Religious persecution - Wikipedia

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    The sociological view regards religious intolerance and persecution as largely social processes that are determined more by the context within which the social community exists than anything else. [21] [11]: 94 [5]: 19, 24 When governments ensure equal freedom for all, there is less persecution. [7]: 8

  8. Triple oppression - Wikipedia

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    Triple oppression, also called double jeopardy, Jane Crow, or triple exploitation, is a theory developed by black socialists in the United States, such as Claudia Jones. The theory states that a connection exists between various types of oppression, specifically classism, racism, and sexism. It hypothesizes that all three types of oppression ...

  9. Social anarchism - Wikipedia

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    Social anarchism is opposed to all forms of social and political power, hierarchy and oppression, including (but not limited to) the State and capitalism. [1] Social anarchism sees liberty as interconnected with social equality , [ 2 ] and considers the maximization of one to be necessary for the maximization of the other. [ 3 ]