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| Rote Learning | A process of learning by memorization and repetition. |
| Scientific Socialism | A phrase used by Karl Marx to distinguish the socialism he advanced from other varieties, usually denounced a utopian. |
| Scientism | An ideology or faith in science itself. Scince tends to get "thingifiedk,: as if it were something separable from the men and their theories by which scientific positions are formed. |
| Secular Humanism | The view that man is wholly human and has only a human destiny. In this view, there is no hereafter for which man should be preparing himself and that such justice as there ever is will be obtained here on earth. |
| Segregation | To set apart from the rest. It usually refers to racial segregation in American history. |
| Sharecropping | An arrangement by which a landlord provides the land, equipment, and housing for a tenant farmer; the crops the tenant produces are then divided equally between the landlord and tenant. |
| Single Tax | An idea attributed to Henry George, the author of Progress and Poverty. George claimed that the produce of land - that part that does not coe by way of labor or capital - belongs to society rather than individual owners. |
| Social Gospel | A movement to usee the power of government to make over society in acord with Christian ideals. |
| Stalwarts | A faction within the Republican Party in the q870s and 1880s. Stalwards stood by the party organization and were little interested in creating an appointive civil service. |
| Subsidiary Coins | Metal coins used to facilitate the making of small purchases and change. |
| Summum Bonum | The greatest or highest good. It is best applied to the belief that some one thing is the chief good, and ranks far above all other goods. |
| Syndicalism | A variety of socialism advanced in France. It was based on trade union dominance of the society. |
| Sweat Shop | A phrase first applied to a factory or workshop in which workers were paid by the piece for what they produced. Nowadays, it is used to refer to any non-unionized shop, especially those where the pay is low and the work rules are hard on workers. |
| Totalitarianism | A system in which the government is unrestricted in the use of power and intrudes its power into as many aspects of the lives of the people as it chooses. |
| Trade Union | A union made up of those pursuing a particular trade, such as carpenters, plumbers, and brickmasons. |
| Trust | In commmon usage, a corporation formed for the purpose of controlling an industry, though the word means basically somethng held in trust for another. |
| Ultimatum | A final statement of terms by one nation to another by which relations between the two can be maintained. If other nation should reject those terms, the result would almost certainly be a diplomatic break, if not a declaration of war. |
| Wall Street | A street in NY City where many banking and investment firms are located. The phrase has long been used as a synonym for the financial dominance of that city and of what socialists like to call finance capitalism. |
| White Primary | A party primary election in which voting was restricted to whites. |
