Grade 9 Key Terms - AIC

• Autonomy


  (n.) self-government, political control
• Bigotry


  intolerance toward those who hold different opinions from oneself.
• Bourgeoisie


  the middle class, including merchants, industrialists, and professional people

  (typically used to refer to the materialistic self-serving interests of the M.C.)
• Capitalist


  Someone who believes in the economic and social concept of capitalism which prioritises privately-owned, for-profit businesses. Capitalists tend to be against the idea of government intervention to help the poor.
• Complacency


  self-satisfaction; smugness, often paired with a blatant unawareness of external danger imposed on them or others.
• Conscience


  an inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior.
• Conservative


  Holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautious about change or innovation, typically in relation to politics or religion. Lots of overlap between conservatives and capitalists
• Conservative party


  A political party in Great Britain which developed from the Tories in the 1830s, One of the two major parties in the UK, it is generally more right wing, and more towards free-markets and the upper classes, advocates a mixed economy and encourages property owning
• Cyclical structure


  When a text begins and ends in the same place or with the same idea.
• degrade


  to reduce someone's worth or value; to make someone step down to a lower position or rank; to move down a step in social status
• Dehumanise


  To deprive of human qualities such as individuality, compassion

  To regard someone as less than human and deprive of their status as a person
• Dichotomy


  A division into 2 opposite groups to emphasise their differences
• Didactic


  intended to teach the reader a lesson, often moral
• Disillusionment


  a feeling of disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as one believed it to be
• Disenfranchised


  People deprived of legal rights, especially the right to vote
• Emblematic


  symbolic, representative of more
• Empowerment


  Becoming more confident and powerful, typically used in relation to a person gaining control over their life
• Exploitation


  the action or fact of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work.
• Facade


  a deceptive outward appearance; a misrepresentation, in order to conceal a persons true personality or feelings
• Generational divide


  the difference in opinion between people of different generations, typically manifested in social and political ideology
• Hypocrisy


  the practice of pretending to be something one is not; insincerity
• Ideology


  a system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy.
• Indictment


  To heavily criticise a system/idea/group of people
• Individualist


  someone who believes we're socially responsible for ourselves
• Indoctrination


  the process of teaching a person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically.
• Industrialist


  a person involved in the ownership and management of industry.
• Infidelity


  sexual activity outside one's marriage
• Labour party


  British working-class political party established in the 1890s and dedicated to reforms and a peaceful transition to socialism, in time providing a viable alternative to the revolutionary emphasis of Marxism.
• Materialistic


  preoccupied with material things; greedy for possessions
• Microcosm


  A miniature world; something that resembles something else on a very small scale
• Misogynist


  hater of women
• Morality


  concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong
• Mouthpiece


  A person or character who speaks on behalf of another
• Negligence


  careless neglect, often resulting in injury
• Objectify


  to treat someone as a thing rather than as a person through actions that disregard his or her inherent dignity as a human being
• Omniscient


  all-knowing
• Oppression


  the state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority
• Patriarchy


  A form of social organization in which males dominate females
• Political diatribe


  The way a text is written to criticise a political system or belief.
• Privilege


  a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group of people.