Flash Cards Yay Social

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Rehabilitate

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To try to get you to do something else (Ex: You can be rehabilitated to stop taking drugs)

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Define a Market Economy

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An economic system in which economic decisions and the pricing of goods and services are guided solely by the aggregate interactions of a country's citizens and businesses and there is little government intervention or central planning. This is the opposite of a centrally planned economy, in which government decisions drive most aspects of a country's economic activity.

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Citizenship

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Your country of origin, and your rights in that country

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Define a Mixed Economy

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An economy in which there are elements of both public and private enterprise.

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Civil Service

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A service that is supplied by someone who works for the Government (Ex: Fire Department)

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Define a Command Economy

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An economy that is planned and controlled by a governing body (Ex: Soviet Union)

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Constitution

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What made our country what it is // The first set of Laws ever established

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Define Scarcity

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The basic economic problem which arises from people having unlimited wants while there are and always will be limited resources. Because of scarcity, various economic decisions must be made to allocate resources efficiently.

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Collective Rights

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The rights established of the Collective

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Define Monopoly

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When a corporation monopolizes a certain aspect of an economy. Ex: A company called Steam is monopolizing buying games online because they are the sole provider for online game purchase services

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Lobbyists

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People who lobby for a certain thing to happen. Ex: Environmentalists can be said to be lobbyists

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Define Competition

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When two companies fight for your buisness. Ex: "We at Company 1 will undercut Company 2 by 25%!"

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Values

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Peoples values, or what they beleive in

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Define Publically Owned

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A company or service which is publically owned, in which everyone has a say

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Quality of Life

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Peoples Quality of Life, so how good they live

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Define Privately Owned

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A company or service that is privately owned, where only a sole person or C.E.O has a say

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Assimilation

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To try and turn people over to a new religion

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Define Supply, Demand, Prices

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Supply and demand changes as prices change. If there is an item that is small in supply but the demand is very high, the price of the item is going to go up

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Affirm

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To affirm collective identity

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Define Enterprenure

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A person who owns, operates, and creates a buisness in a risky endeveour

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Inherient Rights

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Rights you inheret from your ancistors

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Define Enterprise

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A large company, or group of companies. Ex: Donald trump owns an enterprise, Trump Corporation

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Black Market

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A market that sells illegal goods

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Define Crown Corporation

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A corporation owned by Canada. Ex: Air Canada is a Crown Corporation

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Sales Tax

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A tax put onto the sales of all items that is sent to the government

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Define Quality of Life

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How well a person lives, or wants to live. Ex: My quality of life is quite well, because I live in a good home and have everything I need

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Kyoto Protocol

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A protocol to try to battle Global Warming

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Define Public Good

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Anything that is for the Public Good

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Climate Change

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Temperature rising in the climate, or our environment changing for better or worse

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Define Equalibrium

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A state of rest or balance due to the equal action of opposing forces

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Carbon Tax

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A tax that is used to tax refineries based on how much CO2 they put into the environment

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Producers

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People who produce a product

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Biodiversity

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How people are diverse

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Consumers

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People who buy products from stores

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Boycotts

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When people refuse to buy a product, or use a service

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Grants

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Ammounts of money that the government gives, these are like loans

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Corporate Tax

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A tax that a corporation uses to place on their items, that gives money back into the corporation

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Unenployment rate

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The rate of unenployment in a City, Province, or Country

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Tax Base

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The base taxes in an economy

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Propeganda

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Announcements, posters, spray paint, etc.. that makes you beleive a certain thing

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Public Healthcare

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Health Care that is paid for by taxpayers, and everyone has access to it

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Reintigrate

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Reintegrating into Society. This means that you are put back into society to coexist with other people

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Private Healthcare

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Health Care that is paid for solely by people who use it, and only people who can pay have access to it

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Identity

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Who you are

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Immigration

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When people immigrate into another country to live there, normally to better their quality of life

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Accountable

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What you are accountable for. Ex: If I break a Lamp, I am accountable for my actions of breaking that lamp

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Health

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How healthy you are

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Collective Identity

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The identity of a collective group of people; who a collective group of people are

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GDP

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The total ammount of Emissions being pumped into our atmosphere by a factory

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Ethnocentrism

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The beleif of superiority in ones own ethnic group