Key terms & definitions

One numerical variable recorded for each member of a data set.

Applying to everyone, regardless of nationality, religion, sex, wealth or other status.

Applying to everyone, everywhere, without discrimination.

The right of all adult citizens to vote, regardless of race or sex.

Support available to everyone within an eligible category, rather than awarded according to low income.

Benefits available to everyone meeting the relevant category conditions without a test of income or assets. Child Benefit is an example.

A declaration adopted by the United Nations in 1948, setting out fundamental rights that should be protected for everyone.

The United Nations' 1948 declaration setting out 30 articles on rights and freedoms belonging to everyone.

A history that brings together the histories of different peoples and places within a broad account.

A mixture of indicators that produces a range of colours and is used with a colour chart to estimate pH.

An indicator that changes through a range of colours at different pH values, allowing the approximate pH to be estimated.

The belief that all people will ultimately be saved.

A standard applied to everyone regardless of personal relationships or kinship ties.

Support available to everyone who meets the rules for a particular category, without an income or savings test.

Concern and responsibility for the wellbeing of others and the planet, extending beyond one's own community or religion.

The belief that every person will ultimately be saved and united with God.

The complete set of elements being considered in a question, often shown by a rectangle in a Venn diagram.

Common standards applied to everyone regardless of family ties; also called universalistic standards, these describe how Parsons believed schools and wider society judge achievement.

The right of all adult citizens to vote, subject to the legal voting age.

The whole of space and time, including all matter and energy.

An institution of higher learning where scholars study and teach advanced subjects.

A woman who had been married only once.

A law that treats people unfairly or denies them rights.

A letter or symbol representing a value that is not yet known.

A solution containing one or more species whose identities are to be determined.

Charges of opposite types: one positive and one negative.

Responsibility for business debts that can extend to an owner’s personal assets.

Reducing and eventually removing the force applied to an object during a deformation test.

An independent source of motion or change that is not itself moved or changed by another; Aquinas identifies this as God.

The United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission: the body responsible for investigating Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons programmes and prohibited missiles.