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Social Vocabulary
Gr.9 Alberta
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Accord | A formal agreement |
| Accountable | Answerable to someone for your actions |
| Affirm | To validate and express commitment to something |
| Anglophone | A person whose first language is English |
| Annuity | An annual payment |
| Assimilate | Become part of a different cultural group |
| Assimilation | The process of becoming part of a different cultural group |
| Autonomy | Authority to make decisions |
| Bias | An opinion based on unchallenged assumptions |
| Biodiversity | The number and variety of plant and animal species on Earth |
| Black Market | Another term for underground economy |
| Boycott | A decision by consumers to stop buying a product or service as a way to bring about change |
| Civil Servants | The people who serve Canadians as employees of the government |
| Climate Change | A rise in the average temperature of Earth, primarily caused by emissions from burning fossil fuels |
| Collective Bargaining | Negotiating as a group |
| Collective Identity | The shared identity of a group of people, especially because of language and culture |
| Collective Rights | Rights guaranteed to specific groups in Canadian society for historical and constitutional reasons |
| Colonialism | The process of establishing colonies |
| Community Service | Help in the community performed as part of a sentence |
| Competition | In economics, rivalry among producers to sell products to consumers |
| Constituent | Someone who lives in a riding and is represented by an elected official from that riding |
| Consitution | A special set of laws that establish a framework of governance |
| Consumerism | An economic theory that links prosperity to consumer demand for goods and services, consumer behavior is central |
| Consumers | Those who use products and services |
| Criminal Record | A permanent record of breaking the law, which is public information |
| Criteria | Standards for evaluating something |
| Demand | The wants and needs of consumers for products and services |
| Demographic | To do with the characteristics of populations |
| Economic System | How a society organizes the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services |
| Economics | The study of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services |
| Economy | The resources and processes involved in the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services |
| Entrenching | Fixing firmly withing |
| Ethnocentrism | The belief that one's culture is superior to other cultures |
| Executive Branch | The part of government responsible for putting laws into action |
| Fair and Equitable | Governed by rules that apply to everyone, taking into account individual needs and circumstances |
| First Nations | The umbrella name for the diverse Aboriginal peoples |
| Francophone | A person whose first language is French |
| GDP per Capita | A measure of how well-off the people of a country are |
| Goods and Services Tax (GST) | A federal sales tax in Canada |
| Govern | To make decisions as a government and put decisions into action |
| Governance | The process of governing |
| Government | The body with the power to make decisions for a society |
| Health Insurance | An agreement by a company to pay for your health services, in exchange for a monthly or yearly fee |
| Immigration | The process of people establishing homes in a country that is not their native country |
| Income Tax | Tax based on a percentage of a person's income |
| Indian Act | Federal legislation related to the rights and status of First Nations peoples |
| Indian | Europeans used this word to describe First Nations |
| Inherent rights | Rights with origins in fundamental justice |
| Issue | A topic that connects to citizenship, identity and quality of life, and on which well-informed people have different views and perspectives |
| Judicial Branch | The part of the government that interprets and applies the law by making legal judgments |
| Justice System | The institutions and procedures for applying laws in a society |
| Justice | Applying laws |
| Labour force growth | The growth of the "labour force", or the people who can work |
| Labour Union | An organization of workers that acts to protect workers rights and interests |
| Legislation | Laws created through the legislative process |
| Legislative Branch | The part of government that makes laws |
| Lever | In the context of society, a means of accomplishing something; a way to apply pressure |
| Median | The middle number in a set of data |
| Minorities | Groups in society who do not form the majority of the population |
| Official language community | One of the groups in Canadian society who speak either English or French |
| Opinion | Personal reaction to an issue |
| Patriate | To bring to a country something that belongs to the country |
| Perspective | Values and ideas shared by people with a common language, culture and history |
| Point of view | Opinions and preferences of an individual based on personal experiences |
| Political System | The structure of government |
| Popular Vote | The total votes cast in an election, as different from the total seats won in an election |
| Private Health Care | Health care paid for by individuals |
| Privately Owned | The part of the economy owned and controlled by businesses and individuals |
| Producers | Those who create products and services |
| Profit | Money made form a product or service above and beyond the cost of providing the product or service |
| Public Good | What's best for society as a whole |
| Public Health Care | Heath care paid for by taxes |
| Publicly Funded | Paid for by taxes and provided by government |
| Publicly Owned | The part of the economy owned and controlled by government and paid for by taxes |
| Quality of Life | A measure of personal and collective well-being |
| Refugee | A person who seeks refuge in another country because of danger in their home country |
| Rehabilitate | To instill positive behaviors and attitudes |
| Reintegrate | To make part of again |
| Reserve | Land for the exclusive use of First Nations |
| Rights | What individuals and groups and allowed to do in society |
| Sales tax | Tax paid at the time of buying a product or service |
| Scarcity | The idea that land, labour, and capital limit the supply of what people want and need |
| Scrip | Metis history, A document that could be exchanged for land and that was offered to the Metis at the time the Numbered Treaties were negotiated |
| Sentence | A consequence for a crime |
| Shift Left | A shift towards more government involvement in the economy |
| Shift Right | A shift towards less government involvement in the economy |
| Slogan | A phrase repeatedly used by politicians or marketers to present an idea |
| Social Program | Services provided by government to reduce economic inequalities and promote the well-being of citizens |
| Society | A social system where a group of people share a common geographic region, sense of common identity and culture, and who participate in shared political and economic institutions for a communal purpose or interest |
| Sovereignty | Independence as a people, with a right to self-government |
| Strike | A cessation of work by workers |
| Supply | The products and services created by producers |
| Tax base | All the economic activity in a society, which government taxes to pay for services |
| Tax evasion | Misrepresenting what you earn to avoid paying taxes |
| Taxation model | Government policies about taxation, such as what to tax, how much to tax, and how to spend taxes |
| Unbiased | Without preconceived ideas |
| Underground economy | Economic activity based on buying and selling products and services illegally |
| Unemployment Rate | The percentage of the workforce that does not have jobs |
| Validity | Reliability, based on a critical assessment of source, facts and bias |
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