INSPECTOR CALLS VOCAB

Abuse of Power

using your position of power to commit a crime or take advantage of someone without facing consequences.

Accountability

being answerable for your actions or decisions, giving an explanation for them and being totally responsible for them.

Autonomy

the right and ability to be able to govern yourself, including your actions and decisions.

Bigotry

treating those who are different or have different views from yourself with intolerance or unfairness.

Callous

ignoring others and their needs in a cruel and insensitive way.

Commercialisation

managing something or someone in a way to make them available on the market and make a profit from them.

Commodity

a useful or valuable object, often a raw material, that can be bought or sold in trade.

Complacency

a smug, confident satisfaction in yourself or your achievements.

Conscience

a moral sense of right and wrong that guides your behaviour.

Convention

the traditional way of doing things.

Culpable

taking responsibility and blame for a wrongdoing.

Decadence

a decline in morals or culture due to allowing yourself excessive pleasure or luxury.

Degrade

disrespecting someone and presenting them as less than they are.

Dehumanise

denying someone their humanity, including their emotions and independent thought.

Didactic

intending to teach, particularly to teach a moral lesson.

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.

Duty

a moral or legal responsibility or obligation.

Ethical

morally right.

Exploitation

treating someone unfairly and taking advantage of them to benefit from their work.

Façade

a front or mask that is put up to disguise something or someone's true character.

Farce

something that is a travesty or a sham to a comical degree.

Hypocrisy

claiming to have a certain standard or belief but acting against this standard or belief.

Ideology

a system of beliefs and ideals, typically forming a framework for a political policy.

Infallible

never failing, incapable of making mistakes.

Infidelity

being unfaithful to your partner.

Ignominy

public shame or disgrace.

Indoctrination

teaching someone or a group of people to accept a set of beliefs without question.

Inherent

being a permanent, essential part of someone or something.

Institution

an established law or practice, or an organisation founded for a social purpose.

Justice

the idea that people should be treated, rewarded, and punished fairly.

Justified

being reasonable or right.

Misogyny

hatred, contempt, or prejudice towards women for no reason other than their gender.

Morality

principles, either personal or social, concerning the difference between right and wrong, going beyond legality and often religion.

Objectify

treating someone, often a woman, as an object rather than a human being.

Oppression

prolonged mistreatment of a person or group by an authority or government.

Ostracised

being isolated or excluded from a group or society by everyone within it.

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.

Prejudice

having a negative view or opinion of someone that is not based on experience or logic.

Reductive

presenting or viewing someone in an oversimplified way, typically disrespectful or crude.

Repression

forcefully restraining an emotion.

Reputation

how someone is viewed by the general population.

Scapegoat

a person who is blamed for the faults of others because it is easy to target them.

Secular

not linked to religion or spirituality.

Seven Deadly Sins

the seven sins believed by the Christian Church to be the worst sins, which lead to further immoral behaviour: the sins of pride, jealousy, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth.

Socialite

someone who is well-known and important in high society, and attends many fashionable social events.

Social Responsibility

the idea that everyone within a society has an obligation to act for the benefit of the society as a whole, and an obligation to everyone within the society.

Stereotype

a view or preconception of a person or thing that is fixed and oversimplified, held by most of a population.

Stigma

the bad reputation or view associated with a certain quality, person, or action (e.g. the stigma surrounding parenthood outside marriage).

Toxic Masculinity

the concept that traditional male gender roles restrict emotion in men while encouraging negative, often violent traits.

Willful Ignorance

choosing to avoid acknowledging or learning about something so that you don't have to make difficult decisions because of it.

Vice

a behaviour or trait that is immoral.

Virtue

a behaviour or trait that is moral.