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  2. Oppression - Wikipedia

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    The tyrant's tools of oppression include, for example, extremely harsh punishments for "unpatriotic" statements; developing a secret police force; prohibiting freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press; controlling the monetary system and economy; and imprisoning or killing activists or other leaders who might pose a ...

  3. Matrix of domination - Wikipedia

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    Both intersectionality and the matrix of domination help sociologists understand power relationships and systems of oppression in society. [16] The matrix of domination looks at the overall organization of power in society while intersectionality is used to understand a specific social location of an identity using mutually constructing ...

  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. List of forms of government - Wikipedia

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    List of countries by system of government; List of political ideologies; List of political systems in France; Project Cybersyn, a data fed group of secluded individuals in Chile in the 1970s that regulated aspects of public and private life using data feeds and technology having no interactivity with the citizens but using facts only to decide ...

  6. Social Security Fairness Act could restore benefits, but ...

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    "Critics say there is a reason why we force people to pay into the Social Security system. These are two separate systems. If we need to fix Social Security, let's fix it. Let's not just do a ...

  7. Authoritarianism - Wikipedia

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    Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of political plurality, the use of strong central power to preserve the political status quo, and reductions in democracy, separation of powers, civil liberties, and the rule of law.

  8. Intersectionality - Wikipedia

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    Cooper highlighted that their oppression was just not racial or gender-based but a complex combination of the two. Intersectionality originated in critical race studies and demonstrates a multifaceted connection between race, gender, and other systems that work together to oppress, while also allowing privilege in other areas. Intersectionality ...

  9. 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 ...