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Glossary Chapter 8
Glossary terms for Business Ethics: An Interactive Introduction, Chapter 8
Term | Definition |
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oppression | Oppression is the exercise of domination by a group, community, or society as a whole. |
coercive power | Coercive power is the ability to dominate through force or the threat of force. |
economic power | Economic power is the ability to dominate through economic incentive or economic threat. |
conditioned power | Conditioned power is the ability to dominate through internalized beliefs and attitudes. |
conceptual framework | A conceptual framework is a mutually supporting, seldom questioned, and resilient set of fundamental assumptions about the world, about human nature, and about ethical values, that affects how people think and act in the world. |
oppressive conceptual framework | An oppressive conceptual framework is a conceptual framework that makes relationships of domination and subordination seem normal, natural, and unquestionable. |
logic of domination | A logic of domination is a structure of argumentation justifying relationships of domination and subordination within an oppressive conceptual framework. |
care ethic | A care ethic is based in the special relationships, like that of mother and child, which people have to one another, and in the emotions that make such attachments possible. |