coercion

Examples of coercion in the following topics:

• Power

  • Legitimate power, power given to individuals willingly by others, is called "authority;" illegitimate power, power taken by force or the threat of force, is called "coercion. " In the corporate environment, power is often expressed as upward or downward.
  • The use of power need not involve coercion (force or the threat of force).

• The Ethics of Persuasion

  • For example, coercion, brainwashing, and torture are never considered ethical .
  • Al Capone, an American gangster in the early 20th century, used coercion as a persuasive technique, which is unethical.

• Market Exchange and Efficiency

  • There is no coercion and each is informed of their preferences (objectives) and alternatives.

• Cooperation, Competition and Conscription

  • Conscription implies that some form of coercion has taken place.
  • If a government (a formal social institution for allocating power and decision making authority in a community) uses sanctions to force behavior or choice it is clearly coercion and conscription.
  • If I threaten you with harm if you do not make a given choice or act in a specific way, that is coercion.
  • " is that coercion?
  • In the case of coercion, the incentive is the costs created and imposed by other individuals or groups of individuals.

• Authority

  • Weber states that legitimacy distinguishes authority from coercion, force, power, leadership, persuasion, and influence.
  • Give examples of the three types of authority as defined by Max Weber and what distinguishes all of them from coercion or force

• Sexual Harrassment

  • Sexual harassment is bullying or coercion of a sexual nature, or unwelcome/inappropriate promises of rewards in exchange for sexual favors.
  • Sexual harassment is bullying or coercion of a sexual nature, or the unwelcome or inappropriate promise of rewards in exchange for sexual favors.

• Sexual Harassment

  • Sexual harassment is intimidation, bullying, teasing, or coercion of a sexual nature.
  • Sexual harassment is intimidation, bullying, teasing, or coercion of a sexual nature, or the unwelcome or inappropriate promise of rewards in exchange for sexual favors.

• Voluntary Exchange

  • If Joan holds a gun to John's head to force him to sell the cola, that would clearly be duress or coercion and violate the conditions of voluntary exchange.
  • If the instructor of a class suggests you buy his or her book, is that coercion?
  • Is that coercion?

• Hoover and the Limits of Individualism

  • Hoover saw volunteerism as preferable to governmental coercion or intervention, both of which he felt opposed the American ideals of individualism and self-reliance.

• Socioeconomic Status

  • Illegitimate power, power taken by force or the threat of force, is called coercion.