Key Concepts

• Define ‘abuse of power’


  Using your position of power to commit a crime or take advantage of someone without facing consequences.
• Define ‘accountability’


  Being answerable for your actions or decisions, giving an explanation for them and being totally responsible for them.
• Define ‘autonomy’


  The right and ability to be able to govern yourself, including your actions and decisions.
• Define ‘bigotry’


  Treating those who are different or have different views from yourself with intolerance or unfairness.
• Define ‘callous’


  Ignoring others and their needs in a cruel and insensitive way.
• Define ‘commercialisation’


  Managing something or someone in a way to make them available on the market and make a profit from them.
• Define ‘commodity’


  A useful or valuable object, often a raw material, that can be bought or sold in trade.
• Define ‘complacency’


  A smug, confident satisfaction in yourself and your achievements.
• Define ‘conscience’


  A moral sense of right and wrong that guides your behaviour.
• Define ‘convention’


  The traditional way of doing things.
• Define ‘culpable’


  Taking responsibility and blame for a wrongdoing.
• Define ‘decadence’


  A decline in morals or culture due to allowing yourself excessive pleasure or luxury.
• Define ‘degrade’


  Disrespecting someone and presenting them as less than they are.
• Define ‘dehumanise’


  Denying someone their humanity, including their emotions and independent thought.
• Define ‘didactic’


  Intending to teach, particularly to teach a moral lesson.
• Define ‘disillusionment’


  A feeling of disappointment or dissatisfaction with something after discovering that it is not as good as you believed it was, particularly in politics and government.
• Define ‘duty’


  A moral or legal responsibility or obligation.
• Define ‘ethical’


  Morally right
• Define ‘exploitation’


  Treating someone unfairly and taking advantage of them to benefit from their work.
• Define ‘façade’


  A front or mask that is put up to disguise something or someone’s true character.
• Define ‘farce’


  Something that is a travesty or a sham to a comic degree.
• Define ‘hypocrisy’


  Claiming to have a certain standard or belief but acting against this standard or belief.
• Define ‘ideology’


  A system of beliefs and ideals, typically forming a framework for a political policy.
• Define ‘infallible’


  Never failing, incapable of making mistakes.
• Define ‘infidelity’


  Being unfaithful to your partner.
• Define ‘ignominy’


  Public shame or disgrace.
• Define ‘indoctrination’


  Teaching someone or a group of people to accept a set of beliefs without question.
• Define ‘inherent’


  Being a permanent, essential part of someone or something.
• Define ‘institution’


  An established law or practice, or an organisation founded for a social purpose
• Define ‘justice’


  The idea that people should be treated, rewarded, and punished fairly
• Define ‘justified’


  Being reasonable or right.
• Define ‘misogyny’


  Hatred, contempt, or prejudice towards women for no reason other than their gender.
• Define ‘morality’


  Principles, either personal or social, concerning the difference between right and wrong, going beyond legality and often religion.
• Define ‘objectify’


  Treating someone, often a woman, as an object rather than a human being.
• Define ‘oppression’


  Prolonged mistreatment of a person or group by an authority or government.
• Define ‘ostracised’


  Being isolated or excluded from a group or society by everyone within it.
• Define ‘privilege’


  The special rights or advantages an individual has, typically not because of their personal qualities or achievements, but because of their race, class, gender sexuality, etc.
• Define ‘prejudice’


  Having a negative view or opinion of someone that is not based on experience or logic.
• Define ‘reductive’


  Presenting or viewing someone in an oversimplified way, typically disrespectful or crude.
• Define ‘repression’


  Forcefully restraining an emotion.