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  2. Advocacy - Wikipedia

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    Advocacy is an activity by an individual or group that aims to influence decisions within political, economic, and social institutions. Advocacy includes activities and publications to influence public policy, laws and budgets by using facts, their relationships, the media, and messaging to educate government officials and the public.

  3. Advocacy group - Wikipedia

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    Advocacy groups also exert influence through channels that are separate from the government or the political structure such as the mass media and through public opinion campaigning. Advocacy groups will use methods such as protesting, petitioning and civil disobedience to attempt to exert influence in Liberal Democracies. Groups will generally ...

  4. Classification of advocacy groups - Wikipedia

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    An advocacy group is a group or an organization that tries to influence the government but does not hold power in the government. Advocacy groups are generally classified according to two broad typologies: their core aims (group–cause typology), and their relationship to government (insider–outsider typology). [1]

  5. American Sociological Association - Wikipedia

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    The American Sociological Association (ASA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the discipline and profession of sociology.Founded in December 1905 as the American Sociological Society at Johns Hopkins University by a group of fifty people, the first president of the association would be Lester Frank Ward. [2]

  6. LGBTQ+ advocacy group opens website, begins campaign to ... - AOL

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    An advocacy group known as the Human Rights Campaign has begun a campaign it's calling "Remove Ryan Walters," an effort it said will involve the creation of a website opposing the state schools ...

  7. Sociology - Wikipedia

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    Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, ... advocacy, community organization or community mobilization. ...

  8. Public opinion - Wikipedia

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    Gunn Enli identifies the Internet's effect on public opinion as being “characterised by an intensified personalisation of political advocacy and increased anti-elitism, popularisation and populism”. [16] Public opinion has become more varied as a result of online news sources being influenced by political communication and agenda setting.

  9. Networked advocacy - Wikipedia

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    Networked advocacy or net-centric advocacy refers to a specific type of advocacy.While networked advocacy has existed for centuries, it has become significantly more efficacious in recent years due in large part to the widespread availability of the internet, mobile telephones, and related communications technologies that enable users to overcome the transaction costs of collective action.