The Belief That Business Leaders Should Not Direct Social Policy

question 99

Multiple Choice

The belief that business leaders should not direct social policy because there is no direct line of social accountability to the public is known as what argument against a firm being socially responsible?

• A) too much power
• B) costs
• C) lack of accountability
• D) dilution of purpose

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Definitions:

Social Realism

An art movement that focuses on depicting social and political conditions realistically, as in the lives of everyday people, often with a critique of the status quo.

Sociology

The study of social behavior, societies, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture that surrounds everyday life.

Material Social Facts

Elements of society that have a physical or material existence, used by Durkheim to describe the objectivity of social phenomena.

Empirically Studied

Investigated or analyzed through observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic.