S Words

(noun) In statistical analysis, a false correlation between two variables that is caused by a third variable.

(noun) A basis of comparison and acceptable benchmark; criterion; guideline.

(noun) A system of power and authority that claims the legitimate right to use force, composed of institutions (i.e., government, legal system, military, police) that regulates society within its territory.

(noun) The degree in which the State can act independent of capitalistic interests.

(noun) An economic system in which the State controls or owns for profit enterprises such as utilities (e.g., water and electricity) and transportation (e.g., buses and trains) or actively supports capitalist interests through market controls.

(noun) An act of terrorism by a State against its own people or to aid in international terrorism.

(noun) A society that lacks a formal State authority.

(noun) A quantity, such as mean or standard deviation, that summarizes an aspect of a population or sample.

(noun) The processes of analyzing data to find the distribution of a variable (descriptive statistics) or to evaluate the relationship between two or more variables (inferential statistics).

(noun) When no association exists between two variables.

1. (noun) (singular) The scientific discipline that deals with the assemblage, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of numerical data; 2. (noun) (plural) The data produced from the scientific discipline of statistics.

(noun) An individual’s position, often relative to others, in a group or society as characterized by certain benefits and responsibilities as determined by an individual’s rank and role.

(noun) A situation in which an individual’s status is similar across several categories such as education, income and occupation.

(noun) An effort by an higher-status individual to take on characteristics of lower status people during social interactions.

(noun) An individual that confers status by association with lower-ranked individuals or groups.

(noun) An act that is illegal based solely on an individual’s age.

(noun) The current state of a group or society.

(noun) A visible and material example of an individual’s status, typically used to display their wealth or power.

(noun) The characterization of a group of people as sharing the same behavior and features.

1. (noun) The social phenomenon or process whereby individuals that are taken to be different in some way are rejected by the greater society in with they live based on that difference; 2. (noun) Labels that associate people with unfavorable or disapproved behavior and characteristics.