Social 30-2 Flashcards
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Abject Poverty
Extreme poverty in which an individuallives on less than 1$ a day.
Aboriginal Collective Thought
A way of thinking that values the group more than the indivdual, and views all things as interconnected. In many Aboriginal communities this sense of the collective affects land holding, decision making, child rearing, and education.
Aboriginal Healing Foundation
A foundation created as a result of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, whose mandate is to encourage and support Aboriginal peoples as they create healing processes to address the legacy of physical and sexual abuse that many suffered in the residential school system.
Aboriginal Rights
The rights of First, Metis, and Inuit people in Canada, including their land and treaty rights, and rights to which they are entitled above and beyond their rights as Canadian citizens, as outlined in Section 25, Part 1 and Section 35, Part 2 of the Constitution Act, 1982.
Aboriginal Self-Government
First Nations, Metis, and Inuit groups making their own decisions regarding their economy, education, culture, use of natural resources, and other areas of concern for their well-being. This means having soime independence in making decisions.
Adam Smith(1723-1790)
An Influential Scottish political economist who challenged the key ideas behind the mercantilist system and described how a free-market economy would work. Due in part to his liberal economic ideas, economic systems in Europe and around the world began to evolve and change towards laissez-fairre capitalism and a free-market economy.
Adherence To Collective Norms
Faithful observance of the norms or standards imposed on members of a group as a condition of membership in the group. These norms can relate to conduct, values, or appearance.
Altruism
Unselfishness and a focus on the needs of others.
Anti-Terrorism Act
A law passed by Canada’s Parliament in Decemeber 2001. in response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. It gaves the Canadian government special powers, such as surveillance and detention, for dealing with people carrying out activites thought to be associated with terrorism. Some of the act’s measures, such as that of preventative arrest, expired in March 2007.
Anti-War Movement
An organized compaign against war. The Vietnam anti-war movement gained public support during the late 1960’s and contributed to the United States ending that war. These movements can be pacifist in general, and aimed at ending or restriciting the military policy options, or they can be movements opposing specific military campaigns.
Assimilation
The process whereby ethnic or cultural groups adopt the culture of a dominant group and are absorbed into its society. The process of assimilation involves taking on the traites of the dominant culture to such a degree tbhat the group being assimilated risks losing its language, customs, and self-identity.
Authoritarian Poilitical Systems
Political systems in which all deicisons related to governing the state are made by a small group of people or by one person.
Beliefs
The ideas and understandings that a person holds to be true, often influenced by such things as ones culture, language, religion, gender, and worldview.
Bolsheviks
Members of a wing of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers Party, led by Vladimir Lenin, which took control in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and which became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Bourgeoisie
A French word that refers to the social class thar evolved in Europe during the Middle Ages with the developement of cities and the growth in trade. Karl Marx used this word to refer ti the business-owning class during the time of the Industrial Revolution in Europe.
Brinkmanship
International behaviour or foreign policy that takes a country to the brink of war; pushing ones demands to the point of threatening military action.
Canadian Chart Of Rights and Freedoms
A document entrenched in the constitutional Act, 1982 that lists and describes the fundamental rights and freedoms guaranteed to Canadians.
Capitalism
An ecomomic system based on free markets, fair competion, wise consumers anf profit motivated procedure in which a minimum of gov’t involvment is favoured.
Capitalist Economy
An economy that operates with limited gov’ ontervention. In a capitalist economy, questions regarding production and martketing of goods and services decided through the free interaction of procedures and consumers; also known as a free-marker economy.
Censorship
Restricting freedom of expression of freedom of access to ideas or works, usually by gov’ts, and ususally to protet the percieved common good; may be related to speech, writings, works of art, religious practices, or military matters.
Centrally Planned Economy
An economic system base don public state ownership of property, in which gov’t planners decide which goods to produce, how to produce them, and how they should be distributed; also known as a command economy; ususally found in communist states.
Citizenship
Membership by birth or naturalization in a society, community, or country, which entails definable rights of participation and protection and certain responsiblities and duties to the society, community, or country.
Civil Disobedience
Intentional, public refusal to obey a law; usually a form of non-violent political wealth.
Class System
The division of a society into different classes of people, ususally based on income and wealth.
