Please prepare a reading reflection (with proper references and a bibliographic entry) based on the instructions below. Your reflection only needs to answer the first question.  NOTE: The remaining questions are intended to help you see the results of my 'SQ' stage of the SQ3R reading method in order to help you get a deeper understanding of this reading. In future reflections, you will be expected to develop your own questions after 'surveying' the assigned reading, and write a reflection based on one or more of these questions.  1. How do Carroll and Buchholtz define 'business' and 'society'? How does their conceptualization of the 'societal macroenvironment' (define this too) help to frame a particular understanding of the social problems generated throught the relationship between business and society? What seems to be missing from this map of the 'macroenvironment'? Explain what they mean by 'pluralism' and the major stakeholder-business relationships. Pick one 'business issue' discussed by the authors that involves "business's use and percieved abuse of power" (p. 16) and identify the stakeholder-business relationships that are involved within it.  2. What recent (since 2000) high-profile incidents-- corporate scandals, economic and environmental crises, etc.-- have raised serious questions about the relationship between business and society?  3. How does their characterization of society as 'pluralistic' differ from Marx's 'class-based' conception? Does a relative 'equilibrium of power' accurately characterize our society?  4. Why do "we have an environment that is so conducive to the criticism of business" (p. 16)? What are the "factors that have arisen in the social environment have created an atmosphere in which business criticism has taken place and flourished."(p. 11)?  5. How has the response by business reflected "an increased concern for the social environment and a changed social contract (relationship) between business and...
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