In 1979, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) investigated Sears, Roebuck, and Co. What did the EEOC find?
a) The under-representation of women in high-paying commission sales jobs reflected a choice by women, not discrimination by Sears. b) Sears was committing sexual discrimination by favoring men for high- paying commission sales jobs over women. c) Sears was committing racial discrimination by favoring whites for high- paying commission sales jobs over minority groups. d) The under-representation of minorities in high-paying commissions sales jobs reflected a choice by minorities, not discrimination by Sears.
Oscar Lewis argued:
The crucial questions from both the scientific and the political point of view is: How much weight is to be given to the internal, self-perpetuating factors in the subculture of poverty as compared to the external societal factors? My own position is that, in the long run, the self-perpetuating factors are relatively minor and unimportant compared to the basic structures of the larger society. In this quote Oscar Lewis reflects which political ideology?
a) Conservative
b) Liberal
c) Libertarian
d) Moderate
What are rotating credit associations?
a) Organizations that judge the merit of immigrants from different countries b) Organizations that give academic credits to immigrants based on schooling in their former countries c) Organizations that provide loans to immigrants when traditional banks would not d) None of the above
What do Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray attempt to prove in The Bell Curve?
a) That intelligence is accurately measured by IQ tests, but economic success is not related to IQ b) That intelligence is not accurately measured by IQ tests, it has many components and cannot be measured by a number, and that IQ can be raised by various child development practices c) That intelligence is not accurately measured by IQ tests, that it has many components and cannot be measured by a number, and that IQ is more correlated to income than it is to genetics d) That intelligence is accurately measured by IQ tests, that economic success is related to IQ, and that about 60 of the variation in IQ comes from our genes
Which of the following is NOT a conservative
argument for why performance and achievement disparities between different ethnic and racial groups still exist after the abolition of legalized discrimination?
a) There are innate differences in people's abilities.
b) The harm caused by previous discrimination has not ended.
c) People have different work ethics.
d) People value education differently
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