Social mid term exam

Question 1

Social organization

Answer 1

The people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships

Question 2

Interdependence

Answer 2

The degree to which members of the group are mutually dependent on others.

Question 3

social contract

Answer 3

An agreement for mutual benefit between an individual or group and the government or community as a whole.

Question 4

Explicit rules

Answer 4

Fully and clearly expressed or demonstrated.

Question 5

Implicit rules

Answer 5

Implied, rather than expressly stated.

Question 6

Charter of rights and freedoms

Answer 6

Part of the Canadian constitution and is a set of laws containing basic rules of how our country operates.

Question 7

power

Answer 7

The ability to make and carry out decisions.

Question 8

sovereignty

Answer 8

Refers to the power of government to make and enforce decisions which are binding on all citizens.

Question 9

legitimacy

Answer 9

political authority may be preserved from the threat of civil war only when there exists in the community an agreement on the basic principles of the government.

Question 10

Democracy

Answer 10

All citizens have access to power

Question 11

Dictator

Answer 11

One person has complete political power

Question 12

Universal suffrage

Answer 12

The extension of the right to vote to all adult citizens

Question 13

Scarcity

Answer 13

Know that scarcity id the relationship that occurs when needs and wants exceed the limited resources available to meet those wants.

Question 14

Resources

Answer 14

If a society chooses to use its resources one way then it will have to give up many of the other ways its resources could be used.

Question 15

Wealth

Answer 15

All the goods and services (including knowledge) that are produced and distributed within society.

Question 16

standard of living

Answer 16

A measure of the quantity and quality of goods and services available to people as well as more intangible things such as leisure, surroundings, recreation, meaning and purpose in life.