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  2. Feminism in India - Wikipedia

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    In 1986, the National Policy on Education (NPE) was created in India, and the government launched the program called Mahila Samakhya, whose focus was on the empowerment of women. The program's goal is to create a learning environment for women to realize their potential, learn to demand information and find the knowledge to take charge of their ...

  3. Teal organisation - Wikipedia

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    Green Organizations: Focus on consensus and stakeholder values, often emphasizing culture and empowerment. The theory of Teal organizations is built on three core concepts: self-management, wholeness, and evolutionary purpose. [2] [3] [4]

  4. Self-determination theory - Wikipedia

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    Self-determination theory (SDT) is a macro theory of human motivation and personality that concerns people's innate growth tendencies and innate psychological needs. It pertains to the motivation behind people's choices in the absence of external influences and distractions.

  5. Standpoint theory - Wikipedia

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    Standpoint theory, also known as standpoint epistemology, [1] is a foundational framework in feminist social theory that examines how individuals' unique perspectives, shaped by their social and political experiences, influence their understanding of the world.

  6. Metaphysics - Wikipedia

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    His theory inspired the philosophies of nominalism and conceptualism, as in the thought of Peter Abelard (1079–1142 CE). [156] Thomas Aquinas (1224–1274 CE) understood metaphysics as the discipline that investigates the different meanings of being , such as the contrast between substance and accident , and principles applying to all beings ...

  7. Social theory - Wikipedia

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    Social theories are analytical frameworks, or paradigms, that are used to study and interpret social phenomena. [1] A tool used by social scientists, social theories relate to historical debates over the validity and reliability of different methodologies (e.g. positivism and antipositivism), the primacy of either structure or agency, as well as the relationship between contingency and necessity.

  8. Terror management theory - Wikipedia

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    The latter theory is replacing death denial by death acceptance. [56] TMT theorists argue that meaning management theory cannot describe why different sets of meaning are preferred by different people, and that different types of meaning have different psychological functions. [49]

  9. Garveyism - Wikipedia

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    He stated that communism was "a dangerous theory of economic or political reformation because it seeks to put government in the hands of an ignorant white mass who have not been able to destroy their natural prejudices towards Negroes and other non-white people.