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| the social contract - French social contract v. American: French contract requires more "individual comprosmises for the common good," influenced by Jean Jacques Rousseau |
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| interest of the community (yay socialism!) |
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| globalization - French fear American globalization; view the UN as a necessary check on globalization (example of communal interest over individualism) |
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| What Louis XIV said about France, thought he was state incarnate (example of absolute power) |
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| a centralized country (France) |
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| government that recognizes a communal interest and can interfere for the protection of the nation and its citizens |
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| defends the fundamental liberties of individuals and particular groups |
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| assists people who are in poverty and distress |
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| makes rules and carries out justice |
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| La débrouillardise/se débrouiller |
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| to get by, to survive but means that may or may not be legit (tax fraud) |
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| taxe sur la valeur ajoutée, tax on purchased products (pisses French people off) |
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| the community, the collective |
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| Etre pris en flagrant délit |
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| to dare (oser faire qqchose) |
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| establishment, putting in place of |
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| Place to rent stuff like cars (like Hertz) |
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| a smart card (pour les bornes Velib) |
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| ticket window/ATM type thingy |
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| a modern couple (equal roles between men and women; women work and make money) |
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| the man brings home the money and the woman is a housewife |
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| DIY work around the house |
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| a legal status where two people live together without being married (la cohabitation) |
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| Une famille monoparentale |
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| family made up of divorced, kids from different parents, etc |
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| L’éducation (vs. L’enseignement) d’un enfant |
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| the bringing up of a child |
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| Le PACs (se PACs avec qqn) |
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| Pactes Civil de Solidarité, some legal rights, but not totally the same, ok for homosexuals |
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| a love child/bastard child |
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| Le contrôle des naissances |
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| a large family (four kids or more) |
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| Un congé maternité rémunéré |
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| Etre enceinte (tomber enceinte) |
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| Les allocations familiales |
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| family allocations for babies |
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| La carte de famille nombreuse |
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| cards that give discounts to big families |
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| to give birth anonymously |
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| Le chapeau (d’un article de presse) |
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| the subtitle of a news article |
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| Revendiquer (quelque chose i.e. sa paternité) |
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| une avortement (abortion) |
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| reimburse/refund (qqc, comme l'IVG, est remboursee par la securite sociale) |
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| « Egale mais différente » |
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| difference between men and women |
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| getting a promotion by sleeping with the boss |
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| mouvement de liberation de la femme (feminist movement) |
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| "guard dogs" group that looks out for women's rights and exploitation of women in the media |
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| Un spot de publicité (a la télévision) |
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| Un produit de « consommation courante » |
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| something you buy regularly, a necessity |
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| a law that is designed to compel people to do something |
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| Les fournitures scolaires |
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| Mettre (quelque chose) en cause |
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| where they post grades at the end of the school year |
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| when teachers tell students what direction they will go for high school |
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| La lecture, l’écriture, le calcul |
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| reading, writing, arithmetic |
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| L’enseignement secondaire |
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| Le second cycle court (les lycées professionnels- LEP) |
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| Schools for kids with bad grades so they get job quick, no big degree |
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| end of high school diploma |
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| centralization (of the school system in France) |
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| Une semaine de cours chargée |
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| Apprendre par cœur (vs la découverte personnelle) |
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| to learn by heart v. figuring stuff out for yourself |
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| Un cours magistral (vs les travaux dirigés- les TDs) |
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| large lecture classes v. small seminar-style courses |
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| to repeat a year in school |
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| sneaky selection of students who do well, under the table, giving them better treatment, schooling ("selection par l'echec" is one way of filtering out the bad students) |
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| L’orientation scolaire (une sélection par l’échec) |
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| Orienting « good » students towards university, and others, towards no more school |
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| someone who disrupts class |
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| a student who doesn't study |
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| a copy and paster (a plagiarizer) |
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| L’enseignement supérieur court (Les Instituts Universitaires de Technologie- un IUT) |
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| very popular schools that prepare you directly for specialized jobs |
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| Un débouché professionnel |
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| a professional opportunity (job offer) |
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| L’enseignement superieur long |
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| someone who passes the bac |
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| first two years of university |
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| diploma after 2 years of university (not very useful) |
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| for the licence and the maîtrise (last 2 years) |
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| Payer les droits d’inscription |
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| Une UV (une unite de valeur) |
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| Le contrôle continu des connaissances |
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| what you have learned all year |
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| amphitheatre style lecture hall |
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| a letter that says why you want to go to that school |
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| opinion of teachers (recommendations) |
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| L’oral de rattrapage (du BAC) |
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| oral re-take of the bac if you fail |
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| prep courses for les grandes ecoles |
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| CEO (president directeur general) |
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| Le Concours General (pour assister aux prépas) |
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| contest/test to get into the preparatory courses for the Grandes Ecoles |
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| (pour intégrer une Grande Ecole) |
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| Une sélection sur dossier |
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| a school looks at your application and decides if they want you |
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| L’Ecole Polytechnique (X) |
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| l'ecole nationale d'administration (famous school where politicans go) |
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| L’Ecole Normale Supérieure |
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| political science GE (does affirmative action) |
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| La discrimination positive |
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| affirmative action (based on socioeconomic class/location) |
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| underprivileged high school |
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| « Prendre le taureau par les cornes » |
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| take the bull by its horns |
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| Les professions libérales |
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| not salaried, so like a doctor with his own practice, lawyer, etc, make a lot of money |
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| Un cadre (supérieur, moyen) |
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| Un fonctionnaire (haut fonctionnaire) |
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| high govt worker/politician |
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| someone who does hard manual labor |
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| the kind of work that sells a service, not a product (les ouvriers) often in industry or in construction; women represent about a third of la population ouvriere, but often work in the third sector |
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| not given a salary by the government, independent worker |
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| petites et moyennes entreprises |
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| a business or corporation |
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| people who have recently found themselves in economic hardship (abandoned women, immigrants, etc.) |
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| Une institution caritative |
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| any place that offers free food/shelter/etc to poor people |
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| immigrants from the Maghreb |
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| right to citizenship because a parent is French |
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| right to citizenship by virtue of being born in France |
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| a marriage between a citizen and a potential immigrant in order to gain citizenship |
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| the "real france," belonging to native french people |
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| the right to keep the differences that different cultures have even when they come to France |
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| La mefiance (se mefier de) |
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| distrust (to distrust someone) |
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| mixing (of races, cultures, etc.) |
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