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  2. Social mobility - Wikipedia

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    Illustration from a 1916 advertisement for a vocational school in the back of a US magazine. Education has been seen as a key to social mobility and the advertisement appealed to Americans' belief in the possibility of self-betterment as well as threatening the consequences of downward mobility in the great income inequality existing during the Industrial Revolution.

  3. Intergenerational equity - Wikipedia

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    United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child; Akt; Americans for a Society Free from Age Restrictions; Canadian Youth for Choice; Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission

  4. Mobilities - Wikipedia

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    Sheller and Urry (2006, 215) place mobilities in the sociological tradition by defining the primordial theorist of mobilities as Georg Simmel (1858–1918). Simmel's essays, "Bridge and Door" (Simmel, 1909 / 1994) and "The Metropolis and Mental Life" (Simmel, 1903 / 2001) identify a uniquely human will to connection, as well as the urban demands of tempo and precision that are satisfied with ...

  5. Research Organization for Social Sciences and Humanities

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    The Research Organization for Social Sciences and Humanities (Indonesian: Organisasi Riset Ilmu Pengetahuan Sosial dan Humaniora, OR-IPSH), but goes by name Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities-BRIN or ISSH-BRIN, [1] is one of Research Organizations under the umbrella of the National Research and Innovation Agency (Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional, BRIN).

  6. Social facilitation - Wikipedia

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    Social facilitation is a social phenomenon in which being in the presence of others improves individual task performance. [1] [2] That is, people do better on tasks when they are with other people rather than when they are doing the task alone.

  7. Sponsored mobility - Wikipedia

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    Sponsored mobility refers to a system of social mobility where elite individuals in society select (either directly or through agents) recruits to induct into high status groups.

  8. NPR - Wikipedia

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    The organization's legal name is National Public Radio and its trademarked brand is NPR; it is known by both names. [10] In June 2010, the organization announced that it was "making a conscious effort to consistently refer to ourselves as NPR on-air and online" because NPR is the common name for the organization and its radio hosts have used the tag line "This ... is NPR" for many years. [10]