Social Glossary of unit 3.

1. Civil servant: a person employes in the civil service.
2. Constitution: a collection of a country’s fundamental laws that shape the government, institutions and rights and obligations of citizens.
3. Cultural diversity:  the quality of diverse or different countries.
4. Culture: the collection of common customs, knowledge and ways of living that a group of people recognise s their own.
5. Demmcracy: a government, in which the people have power, exercised either directly or through elected representatives.
6. Dictatorship: a system of government in which one person with absolute power governs.
7. Election: the selection by vote of a candidate from among several political parties to the president of a nation.
8. Executive power: one of three branches of the state with responsibility for executing laws, setting state policy and managing public affairs.
9. Globalisation:  the integration and development of a worldwide economic system.
10. Judicial power:  one of three branches of the state with responsibility for interpreting and applying the law.
11. Justice: the administration of law according to prescribed and accepted principles.
12. Legislative power: one of three branches of state with authority to approve, amend and repeal laws.
13. Liberty: the power of choosing, thinking and acting for oneself.
14. Mass culture: a worldwide culture characterized by similar patterns of consumption.
15. Monarchy: a system of government in which the monarch exercises unrestricted power to dictate laws, govern and judge.
16. Multiculturalism: the preservation of different cultures or cultural identities within a unified society, as a state or nation.
17. N.G.O. (non-governmental organization): an entity with humanitarian and social aims.
18. Referendum: submission of an issue of public importance to the direct vote of the people.
19. Regionalism: division of a country into administrative regions having partial autonomy.
20. Sovereignty: the authority to rule over an area.
21. State: the supreme public power within a sovereign political entity.
22. Subsidiarity: when the institutions closest to the citizens make the important decisions.
23. Supranational:  beyond the authority of one nation government.
24. U.N. (United Nations): a supranational organization composed of over 190 member states.
25. Universal suffrae: a system of democratic elections whereby all citizens of voting age can participate regardless of their gender or economic situation.