1. Question : Arguments against discrimination are:
Utilitarian, rights, and justice arguments
Rights, entitlements, and fairness arguments
Justice and Kantian arguments
Civil and criminal
All the above
2. Question : Widely recognized categories of discriminatory practices include:
Recruitment practices that rely on the word-of-mouth referrals of present employees will tend to recruit only from the groups already represented.
Screening practices that include qualifications not relevant to a job.
Promotion practices that place groups on separate tracks or that rely solely on seniority when past discrimination has kept women or minorities out of senior positions.
All the above
A & B
3. Question : Since the jobs women have historically taken pay low wages and salaries, proponents of ____________programs attempt not to place women into higher paying jobs, but to increase the salaries of those jobs where women currently are employed.
Competitive Value
Competitive Position
Comparable Worth
Comparable Equity
1. Question : Types of comparisons to provide evidence of discrimination are:
Comparisons of average benefits given to various groups
Comparisons of the proportion of a group found in the lowest levels of the institution
Comparisons of the proportion of a group found in the most advantageous positions in the institution
All the above
B & C
2. Question : Discrimination in employment involves three basic elements: it must be a decision not based on individual merit, the decision must derive from racial or sexual prejudice, and the decision must have a harmful impact on the interest of employees.
True
False
3. Question : Discriminatory acts themselves can be categorized according to the extent to which they are intentional and institutionalized. An act may be part of the isolated behavior of a single individual who intentionally discriminates based on personal prejudice; be part of the routine, institutionalized behavior of a group; and which intentionally discriminates out of personal prejudice.
True
False
1. Question : Rawls would argue that it is unjust to give some people more opportunity than others.
True
False
2. Question : Kant would argue that humans should be treated as ends in themselves and never as a means to an end. Therefore, discrimination is wrong because it violates people's rights to be treated as equals.
True
False
3. Question : Affirmative action programs call for positive steps designed to eliminate the effects of past discrimination. Such programs are now legally required of all firms holding government contracts.
True
False
1. Question : Misiolek made only sex-based insults, not both sex and race-based insults.
True
False
2. Question : Rawls would argue that it is unjust to give some people more opportunity than others.
True
False
3. Question : Since the jobs women have historically taken pay low wages and salaries, proponents of ____________programs attempt not to place women into higher paying jobs, but to increase the salaries of those jobs where women currently are employed.
Competitive Value
Competitive Position
Comparable Worth
Comparable Equity
1. Question : Which sculptor’s work shows the greatest influence of the forms of classical elements?
Nicola Pissano
Giovanni Pisano
Berlinghieri
Pietro Cavallini
2. Question : What accounted for the interest in illusion in French manuscript illumination?
Contact with Italy
Contact with Constantinople
Contact with Bruges
Contact with London
3. Question : Who was the noble patron who commissioned Les Tres Riches Heures?
Philip the Bold
Giovanni Arnolfini
Tommaso Portinari
Jean, Duke of Berry