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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 ...
Community structure theory provides a powerful framework for analyzing society's influence on media coverage. It has been identified by Funk and McCombs (2015) as the “conceptual inverse” of agenda-setting , [1] focusing on demographic characteristics of communities shaping news instead of news as a driver of public perception.
In 2006, Cynthia Dwork, Frank McSherry, Kobbi Nissim and Adam D. Smith published an article formalizing the amount of noise that needed to be added and proposing a generalized mechanism for doing so. Their work was a co-recipient of the 2016 TCC Test-of-Time Award [9] and the 2017 Gödel Prize .
Elfreda Chatman. Elfreda Annmary Chatman (1942-2002) was an African-American researcher, professor, and former Catholic religious sister. [1] She was well known for her ethnographic approaches in researching information seeking behaviors among understudied or minority groups ( poor people, the elderly, retired women, female inmates, and janitors ).
Feminist IR theory. In terms of international relations (IR) theory, a feminist approach is grouped in the broad category of theoretical approaches known as reflectivism, representing a divergence from approaches adhering to a rationalist outlook based on the premises of rational choice theory; reflectivist approaches, which also include ...
Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation is a 2013 book by the German political scientist Christian Welzel, professor of political culture and political sociology at Leuphana University Lueneburg and vice-president of the World Values Survey.
Cynthia Holden Enloe (born July 16, 1938) is an American political theorist, feminist writer, and professor. [1] [2] She is best known for her work on gender and militarism [3] and for her contributions to the field of feminist international relations. [4] She has also influenced the field of feminist political geography, with feminist ...
Empowered democracy is a form of social-democratic arrangements developed by Brazilian philosopher and politician Roberto Mangabeira Unger, who first published his theories in 1987. Theorized in response to the repressiveness and rigidity of contemporary liberal democratic society, the theory of empowered democracy envisions a more open and ...