viernes, 21 de marzo de 2014

Glossary 6 (Social Sciences)

Economic activity: of or relating to an economy, economics, or finance
Economic agent:  capable of being produced, operated, etc, for profit; profitable

Goods: possessions and personal property
Services: work performed for remuneration
Production: the act of producing; anything that is produced; product
Distribution: the act of distributing or the state or manner of being distributed
Marketing: an event or occasion, usually held at regular intervals, at which people meet for the purpose of buying and selling merchandise
Consumption: the act of consuming or the state of being consumed, esp by eating, burning, etc
Supply: the act of providing or something that is provided
Demand: to request peremptorily or urgently
Inflation:a progressive increase in the general level of prices brought about by an expansion in demand or the money supply
Profit: excess of revenues over outlays and expenses in a business enterprise over a given period of time, usually a year
Tax:a compulsory financial contribution imposed by a government to raise revenue, levied on the income or property of persons or organizations, on the production costs or sales prices of goods and services, etc
Raw material: material on which a particular manufacturing process is carried out
Employer: a person, business, firm, etc, that employs workers
Employee: a person who is hired to work for another or for a business, firm, etc, in return for payment
Self-employed: earning one's living in one's own business or through freelance work, rather than as the employee of another
Active population: in a state of action; moving, working, or doing something
Inactive population: idle or inert; not active
Disabled: lacking one or more physical powers, such as the ability to walk or to coordinate one's movements, as from the effects of a disease or accident, or through mental impairment
Retired: to give up or to cause (a person) to give up his work, a post, etc, esp on reaching pensionable age
Full-time contracts: for the entire time appropriate to an activity 
Part-time contracts: for less than the entire time appropriate to an activity 

lunes, 17 de marzo de 2014

Glossary 5 (Social Sciences)

National sovereignty: of, involving, or relating to a nation as a whole
Constitutional Monarchy: denoting, characteristic of, or relating to a constitution
The Crown: an ornamental headdress denoting sovereignty, usually made of gold embedded with precious stones.
Arbitrator: to settle or decide (a dispute); achieve a settlement between parties
Decentralised Government: o reorganize (a government, industry, etc) into smaller more autonomous units
Motion of no confidence: the process of continual change in the physical position of an object; movement
Ministers: a person appointed to head a government department
Municipality: a city, town, or district enjoying some degree of local self-government
Town Council: a densely populated urban area, typically smaller than a city and larger than a village, having some local powers of government and a fixed boundary.
Mayor: the chairman and civic head of a municipal corporation in many countries
Councilors: a member of a council
Province: a territory governed as a unit of a country or empire
Self-government: the government of a country, nation, etc, by its own people
Statute of Autonomy: an enactment of a legislative body expressed in a formal document
Subsidiarity: (in political systems) the principle of devolving decisions to the lowest practical level
Autonomous Community: (of a community, country, etc) possessing a large degree of self-government
Exclusive authority: excluding all else; rejecting other considerations, possibilities, events, etc
Share authority: a part or portion of something owned, allotted to, or contributed by a person or group
Post-industrial society: I don't know 
Life expectancy: the statistically determined average number of years of life remaining after a specified age for a given group of individuals
Illiteracy: uneducated, ignorant, or uncultured
Extended family: a social unit that contains the nuclear family together with blood relatives, often spanning 
three or more generations
Nuclear family: a primary social unit consisting of parents and their offspring
Single parent family: existing alone; solitary
Same sex marriages: being the very one


domingo, 9 de febrero de 2014

Glossary 4 (Social Science)

Free movement: Having a personal rights or liberty; not enslaved or confined
Common market: European Economic Community
Monetary union: Of or relating to money or currency
Cohesion: The act or state of cohering
Treaty: A formal agreement or contract between two or more states, such as an alliance or trade arrangement
Heterogeneity: Composed of unrelated of differing parts of elements 
Homogeneus: Made up of the same king of people or things
Outsourcing: To subcontract to another company 
Fagmentation: The act of fragmenting or the state of beging fragmented 
Development: The act of process of growing, progressing or developing 
Budget: Economical, inexpensive 
Citizenship: The condition or status of a citizen, with its rights and duties

Duty: a task or action that a person is bound to perform for moral or legal reasons
Funds: money that is readily available

Investment: the act of investing money
Subsidy: a financial aid supplied by a government, as to industry, for reasons of public welfare, the balance of payments, etc.
Skeptical: not convinced that something is true; doubtful.
Surplus: a quantity or amount in excess of what is required.
Seafaring: travelling by sea.
Outskirts:  outlying or bordering areas, districts, etc, as of a city.
Profitable: affording gain, benefit, or profit.
Highway-motorway: I don't know what it is.
Hierarchy: a system of persons or things arranged in a graded order.
GDP: gross domestic product.
CAP:Agricultural Policy: (in the EU) the system for supporting farm incomes by maintaining agricultural prices at agreed levels.
CFP: 

lunes, 3 de febrero de 2014

Answer

Well, in my opinion, to have a Contitution is very important because there are a lot of important things for example the things that the people do in the country or the things we can´t do in it. Also there, explain how in make it the government and all about the country. To me it is very important, inasmuch as there thare are very interesting things and it is very sophisticated to know some thing about it.





miércoles, 15 de enero de 2014