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  2. Women's empowerment - Wikipedia

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    Women's empowerment (or female empowerment) may be defined in several ways, including accepting women's viewpoints, making an effort to seek them and raising the status of women through education, awareness, literacy, and training. [1] [2] [3] Women's empowerment equips and allows women to make life-determining decisions through the different ...

  3. Queen bee syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Queen bee syndrome is a phenomenon first defined by Carol Tavris and two collaborators in 1973. [1] ". Queen bee" is a derogatory term applied to women who have achieved success in traditionally male-dominated fields. These women often take on "masculine" traits and distance themselves from other women in the workplace in order to succeed. [2]

  4. Herbert Spencer - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Herbert Spencer (27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903) was an English polymath active as a philosopher, psychologist, biologist, sociologist, and anthropologist. Spencer originated the expression "survival of the fittest", which he coined in Principles of Biology (1864) after reading Charles Darwin 's 1859 book On the Origin of Species.

  5. Social theory - Wikipedia

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    Social theories are analytical frameworks, or paradigms, that are used to study and interpret social phenomena. 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.

  6. Critical mass (sociodynamics) - Wikipedia

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    Critical mass (sociodynamics) In social dynamics, critical mass is a sufficient number of adopters of a new idea, technology or innovation in a social system so that the rate of adoption becomes self-sustaining and creates further growth. The point at which critical mass is achieved is sometimes referred to as a threshold within the threshold ...

  7. Gender-blind - Wikipedia

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    e. In education, business, law, and other fields, gender blindness or sex blindness [1] is the practice of disregarding gender as a significant factor in interactions between people and applying equal rules across genders ( formal equality of opportunity ). [2]

  8. Sociology of emotions - Wikipedia

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    The sociology of emotions applies sociological theorems and techniques to the study of human emotions.As sociology emerged primarily as a reaction to the negative effects of modernity, many normative theories deal in some sense with emotion without forming a part of any specific subdiscipline: Karl Marx described capitalism as detrimental to personal 'species-being', Georg Simmel wrote of the ...

  9. Enes Kanter Freedom - Wikipedia

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    Enes Kanter Freedom was born on May 20, 1992, in Zürich, Switzerland as Enes Kanter. [5] Kanter's parents are Turkish people who moved to Switzerland as a child. [6] His father, Mehmet Kanter, received his M.D. from the University of Zurich. The family then returned to Turkey, [7] where Kanter grew up. [6]