What Do We Call the Potential of a Person or a Group

question 62

Multiple Choice

What do we call the potential of a person or a group to contest and change norms, values, institutions, and structures of power?

• A) agency
• B) authority
• C) power
• D) politics

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Definitions:

Normative Ethics

The branch of ethics concerned with establishing how things should or ought to be, how to value them, which actions are right or wrong, and which traits of character are good or bad.

Applied Ethics

The branch of ethics that deals with the analysis of specific, controversial moral issues such as abortion, animal rights, and euthanasia.

Method Ethics

An approach to ethics that focuses on the procedures or methods used to make moral decisions, rather than on the outcomes of the decisions.

Criminal Justice

The system of practices and institutions aimed at upholding social control, deterring and mitigating crime, and sanctioning those who violate laws with criminal penalties and rehabilitation efforts.