Transcript Ch 3 Word Wall

Ch 3 Word Wall
A Picture is worth 1000 words,
But an explanation may have to do…
Immigrants
People moving into a country who
plan to stay.
Ethnic Groups
Members of an Ethnic Group
have a common national,
cultural, and racial
background.
Values
The general principles or beliefs
people use to make judgments and
decisions.
INSTITUTIONS!
Institutions- are the key practices, relationships,
and organizations in society.
Example: The most important institution of the USA is
the family.
POPULAR
SOVEREIGNTY
THE IDEA THAT THE GOVERNMENT RECEIVES THEIR
POWER FROM THE PEOPLE.
Citizenship is the rights
and duties of a citizen
Civics
Civics-Study of the duties and rights
of a citizen.
Members of a community who owe loyalty
to a government and in return have
protection from that government
Government!!!
The ruling authority for a community.
Naturalization
A legal process to obtain
citizenship
One of the ways is to take
a citizenship exam. If
you qualify then you go
to a special ceremony,
and you are
considered
naturalized.
Aliens
A foreigner who lives
in the United States
and doesn’t have
citizenship
Not this
kind of
alien
Refugee
People who flee a country to escape danger from a
foreign land.
Responsibilities
As a citizen of the U.S, doing what
should be done to help others.
Duties
Americans have legal duties, set
by the law.
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TOLERANCE
Tolerance is accepting and
respecting others regardless
of their differences in
religion, race, and political
matters.
Welfare
The health,
prosperity, and
happiness of
others
Volunteerism
Volunteerism-n. The practice of offering
your time and services without receiving
any payment.
WHY Is this IMPORTANT?
Some people need help,
But do not have the
money to pay for it.
PUBLIC POLICY
Decisions and actions government
takes to fix the problems in the
community.
Direct Democracy
A system of government in which people govern
themselves. Direct democracy is practical for countries
with small populations, so that they make their own
decisions.
Representative Democracy…
•A Representative Democracy is when the public
decides to have a group of people represent
them.
•The Representatives Jobs are to make laws on
behalf of the people.
Constitutional
Monarchy
is limited in which the
power of the hereditary ruler is
limited by the country's
constitution and laws.
•In a modern
rulers
power is limited by the country’s
constitutional laws.
• In a
, the
monarch also shares power with a
constitutionally organize
government.
Democracy works on the
principle of majority rule.
This means that when 2
candidates from different
political parties participate
in a free and fair election, the
candidate that receives more
than half the votes wins the
election. This being said,
majority rule favors the most
citizens and everyone keeps
their basic rights as equal
members of society.
Authoritarian Regime
• (Aw-thahr-uh-tehr-ee-uhn)
• Power held by a person or a group which is inherited and not
accountable to the people.
Totalitarianism
In a totalitarian state,
the government
controls almost all
aspects of life.
Oligarchy
• Oligarchy is governed by a few people with despotic
power for corrupt or selfish purposes.
AUTOCRACY
Adolf Hitler,
Joseph
Stalin,
Saddam
Hussein, and
Howell Raines
are some
famous
autocratic
leaders.
A system of government in
which a single person has
absolute power, and can
do whatever they want.
A body of ideas about life
and society.
Socialism
Socialism is a system in which society, either
directly or indirectly through the government,
controls all aspects of the economy.
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Communism
Karl Marx
•A one-party system of government based on
the idea of state ownership and direction of
property and industry.
•Karl Marx thought we should share and be fair
so no one was in poverty.