Deck 6: Human Rights and Social Justice

Question 1

Jeremy is limited in his search for gainful employment because of architectural barriers in workplaces.According to the World Health Organization, this social disadvantage is an) ______.

A)physical limitation
B)consequence of impairment that restricts activity
C)environmental disability
D)handicap

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Analyze the role of macrolevel change for advancing social justice.

Answer 2

not answered

Question 3

The rights to housing, medical care, social security, education, and social services are all ______.

A)civil and political rights
B)social and economic rights
C)collective rights
D)"people's rights"

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Provide examples of the racism, sexism, ageism, ableism, heterosexism, elitism to illustrate similarities and differences among the isms.

Question 5

Describe the effects of social injustice and social work's mandate to redress social injustice.

Question 6

Laws dealing with equal opportunity most likely deal with ______.

A)civil rights
B)human rights
C)second generation rights
D)civil liberties

Question 7

Which of the following represents the current focus of the women's rights movement?

A)Obtaining the right to participate in the political process
B)Attaining educational equity
C)Promoting androgyny
D)Attaining economic equity

Question 8

Propose ways that social workers can address the personal, interpersonal, institutional, and socio-economic outcomes of the isms as manifestations of social injustice for diverse client populations.

Question 9

When clients conclude that they can do nothing to change their situations, their conclusion reflects a phenomenon called ______.

A)personal victimization
B)learned helplessness
C)blaming the victim
D)attribution theory

Question 10

According to social Darwinism, private acts of charity ______.

A)defeated the law of natural selection
B)were less disruptive to social evolution than public social welfare
C)undermined scientific philanthropy
D)had no impact on the character of the poor

Question 11

Evaluate the remnants of social Darwinism, blaming the victim, and just world beliefs that persist in contemporary welfare policies and in current attitudes of the general public about social welfare clients.

Question 12

Sexism ______.

A)exists only in mid-east countries
B)has never been endorsed by religious tradition
C)justifies the position that men and women are unequal
D)is expressed against individuals and not found in social institutions

Question 13

Prepare a position statement that supports the notion that a "just social order accords every societal member the same basic social rights, opportunities, and benefits."

Question 14

When policies, rules, and regulations are enforced in such a way as to adversely affect minorities, this discrimination is on the ______.

A)individual level
B)structural level
C)microlevel
D)organizational level

Question 15

According to Solomon, policies that create health care disparities, are ______ barriers to empowerment for minorities.

A)human rights
B)direct
C)unjust
D)indirect

Question 16

Articulate differences among first, second, and third generation human rights.

Question 17

Hypothesize ways in which oppression, discrimination, dehumanization, and victimization prevent some groups from achieving social and economic justice.

Question 18

Evaluate the attitudes of the general public to identify remnants of social Darwinism.

Question 19

Analyze the roles that social workers play in supporting human rights to education, work, and health in their day-to-day practice and in the public policy arena.

Question 20

When majority groups in society use their positions of power to exploit and economically, socially, and psychologically dominate members of minority groups, the outcomes of their actions are best described as ______.

A)just world beliefs
B)prejudiced discrimination
C)oppression
D)blaming the victim behavior