Business Ethics Chapter 8 Glossary

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.

A logic of domination is a structure of argumentation justifying relationships of domination and subordination within an oppressive conceptual framework.

An oppressive conceptual framework is a conceptual framework that makes relationships of domination and subordination seem normal, natural, and unquestionable.

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.

Conditioned power is the ability to dominate through internalized beliefs and attitudes.

Economic power is the ability to dominate through economic incentive or economic threat.

Coercive power is the ability to dominate through force or the threat of force.

Oppression is the exercise of domination by a group, community, or society as a whole.