social vocabulary

Question 1

What is alignment ?

Answer 1

An alliance or agreement. During the Cold War, some countries aligned themselves with either the United States of the Soviet Union to gain political, economic, and security benefits.

Question 2

What is the Anti-Terrorism Act?

Answer 2

A set of laws passed in December 2001, in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks. It gave the Canadian governmemt special powers, such as surveillance and detention, for dealing with people carrying out activities thought to be associated with terrorism. Some of the act’s measures, such as that of preventative arrest, expired in March 2007.

Question 3

What is the anti war movement?

Answer 3

organized campaigns 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 generall, and aimed at ending or restricting the military policies options, or they can be movements opposing specific military campaigns.

Question 4

What is Authoritarianism?

Answer 4

a form of goverment with authority vested in an elite group that may or may not rule in the interests of the people. Authoritarian political systems take many forms, including oligarchies, military dictatorship, ideological one party states, amd monarchies.

Question 5

what is Assumption

Answer 5

The belief that something is right or wrong, without proof.

Question 6

what is Belief

Answer 6

A principle, philosophy or code that defines what is important or desirable.

Question 7

what is Collective Identity

Answer 7

Shared characteristics of a group of people. For example, everyone born in Canada is a Canadian.

Question 8

what is Collective Norms

Answer 8

Culturally established rules prescribing appropriate behavior.

Question 9

what is collectivism

Answer 9

An approach to social organization that puts the needs of the group as a whole above the needs and rights of individuals within the group.

Question 10

what is Common Good

Answer 10

The welfare of society as a whole

Question 11

what is communism

Answer 11

a political, social and economic system in which property is collectively owned and each citizen works for the common good according to his or her abilities and receives according to his or her needs.

Question 12

what is conservative

Answer 12

A belief that society should remain the way it has been traditionally.

Question 13

What is the Canadian charter of rights and freedoms?

Answer 13

is a document entrenched in the Constitutional Act, in 1982 that lists and describes the fundamental rights and freedoms guaranteed to Canadians

Question 14

What is Censorship?

Answer 14

The act of ristricting freedom of access to ideas or works, usually by governments, and usually to protect the percieved common good, may be related to speech, writings, works of art, religious practices, or military matters.

Question 15

What is Chartism?

Answer 15

A working-class movement in Britain that focused on political and social reform from 1838 to 1848

Question 16

What is Citizen Advocacy?

Answer 16

A movement to strengthen citizen action and motivation to participate in community and civic affairs, often focuses on bringing the marginalized back into the community.

Question 17

What is collectivism?

Answer 17

the current thinkning that values the goals of the group and the common good over the goals of any one individual.

Question 18

What is A Common Good ?

Answer 18

The good of the community, something that benefits the public health, safety, and/or well-being of society as a whole.

Question 19

What is Containment ?

Answer 19

the American Cold War forgien policy of containgin the spread of communism by establishing strategic allies aound the world through trade and military alliances.

Question 20

What is Deficit?

Answer 20

A deficiency ; an excess of liabilities pr expenditures over income or assets in a given period. Deficit spending by the government is spending that is financed by borrowing and may occur in order to “kick start” a stagnant economy.

Question 21

What is Democracy?

Answer 21

A form of government in which power is ultimately vested in the people

Question 22

What is Detente ?

Answer 22

A period of the Cold War during the major powers tried to lessen the tension between them through diplomacy, arms talks and reduction, and cultural exchanges.

Question 23

What is Deterrance?

Answer 23

The Cold War foreign policy of both major powers aiming to deter the strategic advances of the other through arms development and arms build up. Deterence depends on each combatant creating the perception that each is willing to resort to military confrontation.