My name is Cassia-Sahara and this is my
last session of social studies. This glossary is presented to Christopher Godawa. It contains field specific words, as well as words I have more difficulty with, based on the teacher’s feedback after the writing and speaking assignments.
anthropology
noun
The scientific and holistic study of humanity.
Example: This question relating to Anime fits in well with our theme of 'Japan at Play' and the field of ANTHROPOLOGY.
fr: anthropologie
assimilate
verb
To assimilate means to take in, absorb, or fully incorporate something—such as new information, food, or cultural customs—so that it becomes part of a larger whole.
Example: In contrast the missionaries expected the children to become Christians and ASSIMILATE into European society'.
fr: assimiler
colonial policy
noun phrase
The formal plans, laws, and strategies implemented by a ruling imperial power to govern, exploit, and manage its dependent territories or colonies.
Example: While some did criticise certain parts of COLONIAL POLICY, they rarely escaped the imperial framework.
fr: politique coloniale
colonization
noun
The act or process by which a foreign power or group of people establishes control over a territory and its inhabitants, often by sending settlers to live in and govern the area.
Example: Every moral agent today is aware that COLONIZATION and slavery were unjust and wrong.
fr: colonisation
economics
noun
A social science that studies how individuals, businesses, governments, and societies allocate scarce resources to satisfy unlimited wants and needs.
Example: The neoclassical economic theory of human capital investment and its ''new household ECONOMICS'' variants suggest that women and men allocate time to household or paid work based on maximizing overall efficiency.
fr: économie
indigenous
adjective
Indigenous means native or originating naturally in a particular place, rather than coming from somewhere else.
Example: First world priorities often override the cultural sensibility of INDIGENOUS communities, including the Maori.
fr: indigène
intergenerational trauma
compound noun phrase
Emotional and psychological distress that is passed down from people who lived through a traumatic event to their children, grandchildren, and later generations.
Example: Participants’ stories of family violence are consistent with international literature on violence against First Peoples, suggesting that INTERGENERATIONAL TRAUMA stemming from colonial policies can lead to the unintentional transmission of trauma from victims to their children, which can manifest in the form of family violence and its normalization in Indigenous communities.
fr: traumatisme intergénérationnel
intersectionality
noun
A framework for understanding how overlapping social identities—such as race, gender, class, and ability—combine to create unique, interdependent systems of discrimination or privilege.
Example: The BWS incorporates the idea of 'INTERSECTIONALITY' and pays equal attention to all those factors which render women susceptible to abuse and violence including poverty, lack of welfare and support services, non-access to legal remedies, etc.
fr: intersectionnalité
lose
verb
To misplace an object, fail to win a game or contest, no longer possess something, or suffer the death or removal of a person.
Example: Whatever the size the incubator needs to have a constant temperature and a turning system as well as some form of moisture, as the eggs will LOSE 12% of their total weight during the incubation period due to water lost.
fr: perdre
mathematics
noun
The systematic study of numbers, quantities, shapes, space, and patterns.
Example: They are very highly reliable and dependable because they can "prove program behavior correctness using logic and MATHEMATICS".
fr: mathématiques
path
noun
A narrow track or strip of ground made for walking, a line along which something moves (like a flight path or orbit), or a figurative course of action leading to a specific goal.
Example: However, entering a new market with a new product or service is not always the safest 'PATH' for a company's future development, although this strategy possibly has the greatest potentials.
fr: chemin
propaganda
noun
The dissemination of biased, selective, or misleading information, ideas, rumors, or half-truths designed to manipulate public opinion and advance a specific political, ideological, or commercial cause.
Example: The US army had intervened in the Vietnam war and 'soon encroached upon Cambodia's territory and integrity' and in response the Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot's forces, 'used the bombings devastation and massacre of civilians as recruitment PROPAGANDA' for their party.
fr: propagande
taught
verb
To give knowledge, skill, or instruction to someone.
Example: He states that virtue is 'largely unguided by knowledge; for if it were its guide, then virtue would be teachable and TAUGHT.
fr: enseigné
thank
verb
To express gratitude, appreciation, or acknowledgment to someone for a gift, help, or kind action.
Example: I first would like to THANK , my project supervisor, for helping and advising me so much about this project.
fr: remercier
thought
noun or verb
An idea, opinion, or mental image produced by using the mind.
Example: The love-struck narrator is driven to a 'frenzy' and lives 'without taking THOUGHT', obsessed much as Dido was.
