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Alberta Social Studies 30-1 Definitions Questions and Answers 2024
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Alberta Social Studies 30-1 DefinitionsClassical Liberalism - answer Valuing the freedom of individuals
Perspectives – answer Someone’s point of view
Ideology - answer A system of ideas and ideals
Individualism - answer The habit of being independent
Collectivism - answer The thinking that values the goals of the group and the common
good over the goals of any one individual
Point of view – answer Someone’s first person view
Citizenship - answer Being part of a community
Dystopias - answer An imaginary place where things are bad
Big Brother - answer Government watching you constantly
Freedom of Speech - answerThe right to say whatever you want.
Democratic Process - answerA practice that allows democracy to exist
Civil rights - answerThe rights of citizens to political and social freedom
Philosophy - answerThe fundamental nature of knowledge
Thomas Hobbes - answerA philosopher who advocated sovereighnty
John Locke - answerA philosopher that believed people were not born with ideas.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - answerA philosopher, writer and composer of the 18th
century
Representative democracy - answerDemocracy founded on the principle of elected
officials
Worldview - answerA collection of beliefs about life and the universe held by an
individual or group
Materialism - answerFinding things more important than people
,Personal identity - answerThe idea you have of yourself as a unique individual
Collective identity - answerThe identity that you share with other people as a member of
a larger social group.
Beliefs and values - answerImportant aspects of identity that influence behavior and
choices and guide people
Culture - answerThe collection of a communities ideas
Spirituality - answerBelieving in a religion or higher power
Universal Suffrage - answerThe right of all members of society, one they reach the age
of accountability, to fully participate politically ie vote.
Totalitarian - answerA government system that seeks complete control over the public
and private lives of its citizens
Hegemony - answerInfluence or control over another country
Pluralism - answerA condition with 2 or more groups coexist
Liberalism - answerA collection of ideologies all committed to the principle of the dignity
and freedom of the individual as the foundation for society.
ANC - answerAfrican National Congress
Progressivism - answerA 1920s movement in the United States reacting to the laissez-
faire capitalism favoring a square deal for average citizens . Support for or advocacy of
social reform
Human Rights - answerThe rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled.
Tommy Douglas - answerA politician and baptist member of Cooperative
Commonwealth Freedom
Milton Friedman - answerAn economist with a strong belief in free-market capitalism
Ovide Mercredi - answerA Canadian politician Cree and former National Chef of
Assembly of First Nations
Nation - answerA large aggregate of people united by common culture, history, descent,
language, living in a particular country or nation
, Class - answerSystem of ordering society divided by perceived social or economic
status
Race - answerSocial background based on common ancestry
Individualism - answerA current of thinking that values the freedom and worth of the
individual, sometimes over the security and harmony of the group
Common Good - answerThe good of a community, something that benefits the public
health, safety and/or well-being of society as a whole
Autonomy - answerState of individual freedom from outside authority
Self-reliance - answerThe quality of being solely responsible for one's own well-being
Renaissance - answerPeriod in European history from about 1350 to 1600
Yung-Suk Kim - answerA Korean Biblical scholar
Albert Einstein - answerA German theoretical physicist
Albert Camus - answerA French philosopher and journalist
Roman Catholic Church - answerA branch of Christianity headed by the pope.
Ancient Greeks - answerCulture that had been very humanistic and very individualistic
Michelangelo - answerAn Italian sculptor, painter and architect
Protestantism - answerThe faith, practice and church of protestants
Rule of law - answerA key principle i liberal democracies that states that every individual
is equal before the
law and all citizens are subject to the law
Private property - answerSomething that is owned by an individual
Economic freedom - answerThe freedom to buy what you want and to sell your labor,
idea or product to whomever you wish
Free markets - answerA market that operates with limited government intervention
Welfare state - answerA state in which the economy is capitalist. Ensures economic
stability and basic a standard of living for its citizens.
Self-interest - answerOne's personal interest or advantage
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