C Words

(noun) Buying, displaying, and consuming expensive luxury goods or services to flaunt one’s superior wealth and status in society.

(noun) A characteristic or value that does not change across an observation.

(noun) A monarchical government in which the ruler’s power is limited by a constitution or other legal restraints.

(noun) Systematic analysis of forms of communication to identify and study patterns and themes.

(noun) Settling a dispute by participants engaging in a mutual challenge.

(noun) An illness that is questioned or disputed by members of the medical field.

(noun) In conversational analysis or interviewing, a verbal or non-verbal cue that signals to a listener that what they have said has been heard and they should continue.

(noun) Theory asserting that middle-aged and older people adapt their lives to maintain the same activities, social relationships, and ways of thinking (e.g., beliefs, values) as they age.

(noun) Range, series, or spectrum that gradually changes, in which no adjacent part is clearly distinct from the next but with distinctly defined extremes.

(noun) Any act or device used to control or prevent conception.

(noun) In an experiment, the subjects not exposed to the independent variable to ensure the validity of the results.

(noun) People congregating for a scheduled event.

(noun) In world systems theory, a powerful industrial nation that dominates the global economic and political system.

(noun) Theory asserting environmental problems caused by a growing global population will be solved by human ingenuity and technological innovation.

(noun) System that supervises individuals who have been accused, arrested, or convicted of crimes.

1. (noun) In statistical analysis, a broad term describing how a change in one variable is associated with a similar pattern of variation in another variable across cases in a data set; 2. (noun) A standardized indicator of covariance.

(noun) In statistical analysis, a standardized measure of the covariance between two variables expressed between -1 and +1. The sign of the coefficient indicates the direction of the relationship while the magnitude is indicated by the value of the coefficient with 0 indicating absolutely no correlation and a value of ±1 indicating perfect correlation.

1. (noun) The study of the origin and nature of the universe; 2. (noun) A set of beliefs that defines the origin and nature of the universe; 3. (noun) A comprehensive theory of the origin, composition, dynamics, evolution, and structure of the universe as a system.

(noun) A culture within a larger culture that deliberately challenges or rejects the dominant culture’s behaviors, beliefs, lifestyle, norms, and values.

(noun) A formal institution that has the power to make decisions (judgments) based on law and the coercive power of authority to enforce those decisions.