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  2. Family planning - Wikipedia

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    The process of family planning varied throughout China, as people differed in their responsiveness to the one-child policy, based on location and socioeconomic status. For example, many families in the cities accepted the policy more readily based on the lack of space, money, and resources that often occurs in the cities.

  3. Critical pedagogy - Wikipedia

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    Critical Pedagogy is believed to have its roots in the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, which was established in 1923.As an outgrowth of critical theory, critical pedagogy is intended to educate and work towards a realization of the emancipatory goals of critical pedagogy.

  4. Vajrayana - Wikipedia

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    Another fundamental theory of Tantric practice is that of transformation. In Vajrayāna, negative mental factors such as desire, hatred, greed, pride are used as part of the path. As noted by French Indologist Madeleine Biardeau, the tantric doctrine is "an attempt to place kama, desire, in every meaning of the word, in the service of liberation."

  5. Conspiracy theory - Wikipedia

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    A conspiracy theory is an explanation for an event or situation that asserts the existence of a conspiracy by powerful and sinister groups, often political in motivation, [3] [4] [5] when other explanations are more probable.

  6. Dog whistle (politics) - Wikipedia

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    In effect, the philosopher Carlos Santana corroborates Hindess's criticism of the dog-whistle notion as being dependent on the investigator's social and moral values during his own attempted definition, writing: "We don't want every instance of bi-level meaning in political discourse to count as dogwhistles, because not every instance of ...

  7. Glass cliff - Wikipedia

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    The election dealt the Progressive Conservatives one of the most devastating defeats in Canadian history, reducing them from 156 seats to 2. [ 35 ] In 2009, Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani was accused of misappropriating the country's funds to conduct an alleged unauthorized bailout for Bank Century a year prior which was failing at the ...

  8. Gender Empowerment Measure - Wikipedia

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    The Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) is an index designed to measure gender equality.GEM is the United Nations Development Programme's attempt to measure the extent of gender inequality across the globe's countries, based on estimates of women's relative economic income, participation in high-paying positions with economic power, and access to professional and parliamentary positions.

  9. Climate justice - Wikipedia

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    Climate justice may often conflict with social stability. For example, interventions that establish more just product pricing could result in social unrest [80]. [81] Decarbonization interventions could lead to decreased material possessions, comfort, maintained habits. [33] [additional citation(s) needed]