My field of study is Social Science administration. In this pre-university program we discover how marketing, law, maths, company and economy work. We learn lots of new discipline, and they help us to choose our field of study for the university. This glossary will help you, new student, to understand several concepts of this program. Every definition will content the name of the program.
Acutes stress
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An acute stress is a reaction of the body to something stressing. It usually doesn't stay long and you can't control it. It is unpredictable. The body was made to survive and an acute stress is a reaction of a danger or that your body feels like it. (Psychology)
Example: When something scares you, your acute stress comes up to help you pass this stressing moment.
fr: Stress aigu
Business
noun
A business is a way to make profit by selling a product or a service. It is an organization where people work together to achieve the same goal. (management)
Example: A business of clothes is selling clothes to make profit with it.
fr: Entreprise
chart
noun
A chart gives information by a graph, a table or a diagram. It helps us to understand a lot of data by reading only the chart and not all the data. (Math)
Example: A chart that shows you all the death during the pandemic.
fr: Diagramme
Competitive market
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A competitive market is multiples company that are working in the same kind of production, and they are in competition between each others. They don't have the market to themselves, so they need to improve their products and try to be different. The more popular they get, the more profit they made and became bigger. (Economy)
Example: All the grocery stores are in competition between each other because they offer the same service.
fr: Marché concurrentiel
Debate
noun
A debate is where a group is opposing another because they have different arguments, and they both defend them. It is a discussion with different opinion. (Philosophy)
Example: When you argue with someone about the way to do the PowerPoint and you both have different opinion and you tried to justify your opinion.
fr: Débat
Empathy
noun
The empathy is to put yourself at someone else's places and try to help them and understanding what they are going through. It is an emotion. (Psychology)
Example: When someone is crying, you can feel their emotion and understand what they are feeling to help them.
fr: Empathie
Expertise
noun
Expertise is all the skills someone has or all their knowledge. (Management)
Example: A doctor has a lot of skills in surgery.
fr: Compétence
Genealogy
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Genealogy is the study of family's ancestor that they are from the same family as you are but maybe a really long time ago. (Sociology)
Example: All the study of your family, for example your family tree.
fr: Généalogie
grant
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A grant is a financial source that the government gives to a company to help them financially. The beneficiary doesn't need to pay back the money because it is an offer from the government to help them. (Economy)
Example: Lots of farmers received a grant to help them produce enough food for the city. The government makes sure that his city will have enough food to live. It is helping the farmer and it is a guaranty for the government.
fr: Subvention
Human resource
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(HR) is the division of a business that is charged with finding, screening, recruiting, and training job applicants, as well as administering employee-benefit programs. (Management)
Example: The person who is doing your interview for a new job usually is working in the human resource.
fr: Ressource humaine
Innovation
noun
An innovation is an idea suggested that is improving a project or to recreate something to make it even better than before. It makes more profit to the organization and helps them continues through the new situation. (Management)
Example: Every new IPhone is an innovation because it is a new technology and it is always better than the last generation.
fr: Innovation
Life expectancy
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Life expectancy refers to the number of years a person can expect to live. (sociology)
Example: The more you eat healthy food usually the more you will live longer than others.
fr: Espérance de vie
Management
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Management is all the technique to organise a company and plan the company future. Usually, the company leader decides of the goals and makes sure everything works as planned. It is the art of leading.
Example: The school needs someone to manage everything. However, their would be no rules and nothing would be planned. Management organizes the school and decides of the objective. It is crucial.
fr: Gestion
Modernization
noun
Modernization is the evolution of our social and natural life. It is a process in the history. The action to bring-up to date. (History)
Example: All our transport has transformed during the years, and they modernized through the time because of invention and the evolution of time.
fr: Modernisation
Profit
noun
Profit is the financial benefits of an organization. It is what you end up with when you subtract every cost of your project. (Economy)
Example: When kids are selling lemonades, they subtract the cost to produce the lemonade and the rest is their profit.
fr: Profit
Rationality
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Rationality is the quality of being based on or in accordance with reason or logic. (Psychology)
Example: When you have two choices and for example, one is to spend some money for a birthday present, but you don't have financially the budget or the second choice is to give a smaller gift, but less interesting. Your rational reasoning choice would be the second one because you don't need to indebted yourself for a gift.
fr: Rationalité
Scientific dictionary
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A scientific dictionary is a specialized dictionary where you can find more specific definition of a lot of subject. It is a safer source to use in research. (integration process in Social Science)
Example: When you are looking for the definition of organic agriculture it is possible to use a scientific dictionary to have better definition and more precise.
fr: Dictionnaire scientifique
Sovereignty
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The sovereignty is the power of a self-governing state. It has all the power and authority. (History)
Example: An independent country.
fr: Souveraineté
Strategic goal
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A strategic goal is the vision of a company in long term and it includes all the company. The director is in charge of deciding the strategic goal. (Management)
Example: Improve customer satisfaction. Decrease the number of product returns.
fr: Objectif stratégique
Trigonometry
noun
Trigonometry is a section of math that gives you specific functions of angles. We use it for different problems in derivative and integral.
Example: When you want to answer the question of an integral of a sin or a cos, you are using trigonometry.
