grade 8 social terms

Ideas people have about the way the world works which shapes decisions they make

• ethnocentrism

• worldview

• multiculturalism

• entitlement

the study of government and systems that organize societies

• economy

• politics

• social studies

• science

a violation of a persons rights or freedoms

• primitive

• racism

• ethnocentrism

• injustive

applied scientific knowledge into tools or how to use the tools

• science

• civilized

• artifact

• technology

having an abundance in resources

• wreath

• with

• wear

• wealth

Refers to the various governments of indigenous people

• Aboriginal

• Metis

• First Nations

• Indigenous

a system of government designed for the people, of the people by the people usually distributing power via a vote

• monarchy

• demonic possession

• democratic republic on the congo

• democracy

A community of people united by traditions and rules

• society

• aboriginal

• indigenous

• first nations

the area of a nations economy that is controlled by government and services the people

• public sector

• private sector

• private investigator

• public washroom

story telling and the passing down of important cultural information via spoken word

• storytelling

• history

• oral tradition

• aboriginal