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| Parochial School | An elementary or high school operated by a religious body. |
| Partisan | An adherent to a party or cause. Used as a label for rebels in the civil war. |
| Pedagogy | The rules of teaching, its practice. |
| Perestroika | A Russian term which means to restructure or make structural changes. |
| Philosophy | The study that attempts to make a comprehensive description of reality, of what it is basically, how it can be known, what its branches are, and what are the principles by which it operates. |
| Quarintine | A state of enforced isolation of people or goods to protect the general population from communicable diseases. |
| Quota | That part of the whole which rightfully belongs to an individual. |
| Patriarchy | A system of organization in which the father is the head of the family. |
| Potentiality | Possessing the possibiliy of being or doing something. |
| Racism | A doctrine or ideology based on the claim that racial attributes determine ability and behavior that makes the members of some races superior and other races inferior. |
| Rationalization | To construct a plausible explanation for behavior that is motivated by unconscious or unadmitted desires or fears. |
| Reactionary | One who reacts rather than responds by refusing to consider proposals to changes in the status quo. |
| Stare Decisis | To let the decision stand. It is a legal position that judges should follow rules and decisions laid down in earlier times in interpreting the law unless they are found to be in error. |
| Transcendant | Beyond or above ordinary experience, above the earthly realm. |
| Warsaw Pact | A treaty or agreement formed in 1955 by the eastern European countries - Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, and Albania - to counter NATO. |
| Voyeurism | The habits of a person who is sexually stimulated by looking through windows or other openings at unclothed people. |
| Feudalization | To break up into many political groupings: it is also sometimes called Balkanization. |
| Free Agency | A practice in professional sports of permitting players from time to time to go on the open market and offer their services to the highest bidder. |
| Glasnost | A Russian term which came into international use during the rule of Mikhail Gorbachev. |
| Indoctrination | The practice of teaching doctrine or principles. |
| Irrationalism | The view that reality is basically irrational, that it is not reasonable.... |
| Martial Law | Imposed usually when local law enforcement is inadequate to the task of maintaining the peace. |
| Materialism | A philosophy or ideology that is based upon the belief that reality is primarily material, that it is composed of matter, its combinatins and motions. |
| Misogyny | The hatred of women. |
| Multi-culturalism | The position that the U.S. has diverse cultures which should all be considered equal. |
| Ontology | A branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of being, and how beings specifically differ from one another. |
| Denizen | Refers to anyone residing in or inhabiting an area. |
| Dissident | One who disagrees with the prevailing authorities in a country. Applied to opponents of Communist regimes in 1970s and 1980s. |
| Elite | Persons who rule or dominate on the basis of their assumed superiority. |
| Environmentalism | An ideology which supports the preservation of the integrity of natural environments. |
| Epistemology | That branch of philosophy which deals with the nature and grounds of knowledge, its limits and validity. |
| Ethnic Group | Refers to groupings of people, racially or culturally related to one another. |
| Ethnocetric | A focus upon one's own ethnic group, its ways, beliefs, language and outlook to the extent that other ethnic groups are ignored, excluded, or avoided. |
| Feminism | A doctrine or ideology which holds that women are or should be equals with men. |
