Social sciences: unit 3 vocabulary

Constitution: is the collecting of a country's fundamental laws. It shapes the type of government, the rights and Obligations of the citizens, the institutions and the workings of the state.

State: is a group of institutions that organise the lifes of the people who life in the same territory.

Civil cervant: a member of civil service.

Justice: the administration of la according to prescribed and accepted principles.

Liberty: the power of choosing, thinking and acting for oneself.

Referendum: a direct question asked to the citizens with which they can agree or disagree.

Universal suffrage: all citizens can vote in the elections.

Sovereignty: authority of a sovereing

Democracy: form of government that the citizens can vote for they representative in the elections.

Monarchy: a form of government in which supreme authority is a king or queen. 

Dictatorship: form of government in which one person (dictator) with absolute power, governs.

Globalisation: common cultural identity with the power in the supranational institutions.

Regionalisation: different cultural identity with the power in the institutions closest to the citizens.

Cultural diversity: cultural variety and differences that exist in the world, a society or an institution.

Legislative power: the authority under the constituon to make laws and to alter or repeal them.

Executive power: the authority to execute the laws and set states policy.

Judicial power: the authority to apply the law, that is, judge and punish citizens who break it.

Supranational: beyond the authority of one national government, as a project or policy that is planned and controlled by a group of nations.

Mass culture: phenomenon in wich increasingly large numbers of people with shared preferences influence the direction of society.

UN: United Nations

NGO: Non-Governmental Organisations: entities with humanitarian and social aims.

Subsidiarity: the principe of developing decisions to the lowest practical level.

Culture: is the collection of common customs, knowledge and ways of living that a group of people recognise as their own and, at the same time, as something that differentiates them from other groups.

Multiculturalism: coexistence of different cultures in a specific time and place.

Interculturalism: coexistence of different groups of humans beings on the basis that cultural relations enrich Election: the selection by vote of a person from among candidates for a position.