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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. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Intersectionality - Wikipedia

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    S18 She later notes that self-valuation and self-definition are two ways of resisting oppression, and claims the practice of self-awareness helps to preserve the self-esteem of the group that is being oppressed while allowing them to avoid any dehumanizing outside influences. Marginalized groups often gain a status of being an "other". [67]:

  6. Liberation psychology - Wikipedia

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    Liberation psychology or liberation social psychology is an approach to psychology that aims to actively understand the psychology of oppressed and impoverished communities by conceptually and practically addressing the oppressive sociopolitical structure in which they exist. [1]

  7. 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 ...

  8. Social exclusion - Wikipedia

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    Social exclusion is a multidimensional process of progressive social rupture, detaching groups and individuals from social relations and institutions and preventing them from full participation in the normal, normatively prescribed activities of the society in which they live.

  9. Repression - Wikipedia

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    Political repression, the oppression or persecution of an individual or group for political reasons; Psychological repression, the psychological act of excluding desires and impulses from one's consciousness; Social repression, the socially supported mistreatment and exploitation of a group of individuals