Social Studies 30-2 Unit 1

A tax that takes a larger % from the income of high-income earners than it does from low-income

Cooperative management of the economy and production is planned.

Universal Health Care

Refers to real estate, physical and intellectual possessions (money, objects, ideas).

Concept in that individuals are responsible for other people's acts by tolerating or ignoring

Things like sharing wealth, means of production, identical pay.

Something typically connected to your own moral code; held as very important to you.

Maximum political and economic freedom.

Set of conscious and/or unconscious ideas which constitute one's goals, expectations, & actions

Thought people would kill each other if left alone; they needed a strong leader to guide them.

Welfare Cheques

Advocates stateless societies often defined as self-governed voluntary institutions.

Social Contract; people surrender some rights to leader & leader will protect these rights.

Principle in liberal democracies that states that every individual is equal before the law.

Government funded policies that exist to assist citizens; Health Care.

Bill of Rights

Little gov’t intervention; governed by supply and demand.

Father of socialized Medical Care in Canada; he served in government from 1935 until 1979.

Believed in idea of a market where gov’t involvement was little & people have freedom of choice

Philosopher believed in liberty and individual freedom; people will improve themselves.

A classless society

Typically sit in the middle of the road; a balance between control and freedom.

Canadian Charter of Rights & Freedoms

Socialist; wanted a classless society where the people owned the Means of Production.

Political theory that all people should be treated as equals & have the same rights

Having an independent government with ties to a monarch as the figurehead leader of their gov't

Allocation of resources is determined by a comprehensive plan of production.

The need for each individual to avoid conformity and follow his or her own instincts and ideas.

Combines aspects of economic control with political freedom; NDP.

Labour Unions

Investing in the stock market

Felt that the people in charge were contracted to the governed & could be replaced at any time.

Politically controlling and economically controlling; former USSR or North Korea.

Acting in such a way that benefits you, the individual, the most.

Entrepreneurial Spirit

Radical & authoritarian; roots in the right, it is free economics w/ extreme political control.

Coalition against ISIS

Spectrum position that believes that tradition and hesitancy are necessary; think conservatism.

Economically going against another in order to prosper; lower prices.

Communist country in Asia that heavily uses propaganda and censorship against the west.

Owned and operated by the government to gain capital; crown corporations or parks.

An acceptance that a statement or idea is true.

A balance between social programming and market freedom.

Keeping traditional institutions in context of culture; typically more hesitant to change

System of government in which a supreme power is concentrated in the hands of one person.

A set of issues that members of a group have in common.

Spectrum position that believes revolution and change are necessary and must happen quickly.