Quiz 1 Flashcards
Quiz 1
True or False:
all human rights impose a combination of negative and positive duties on States
True
True or False:
Human rights are the basic rights and freedoms that belong to every person in the world, from birth until death.
True
True or False:
Human rights apply to all human, they can never be taken away, and can never be restricted
False
Multiple Choice:
One of the following has been described as first-generation rights.
Social and economic rights.
a) Social and economic rights
b) civil and political rights
c) cultural rights
d) People’s rights
Civil and political rights
True and False:
Thinking of Human rights such as liberty, equality, and security as just abstract values are just as important as rights rooted in social practices to realize those values
True
Multiple choice:
Which one of the statements below is false?
a) The war crimes trials at Nuremberg and Tokyo took place immediately after the First World War
B)The war crimes trials introduced a ‘crime against humanity’ as an offence
c) The war crimes trials held individuals legally responsible for acts such as war crimes and crimes against humanity
d) The war crimes trials found that”superior orders” could not be used as a defence for war crimes or crimes against humanity
The war crimes trials at Nuremberg and Tokyo took place immediately after the First World War
Multiple choice:
The Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action (1993) stated: The universal nature of all human rights and fundamental freedoms is beyond question
a) Third-generation rights are of primary importance
b)Civil and political rights are core rights
c) All human rights are universal, indivisible and interdependent and interrelated.
d) Social and economic rights are non-enforceable
All human rights are universal, indivisible and interdependent and interrelated.
Multiple choice:
It was the first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government were not above the law. It sought to prevent the king from exploiting his power and placed limits on royal authority by establishing law as a power in itself., accordingly, all free men have the right to justice and a fair trial with a jury, the Monarch doesn’t have absolute power, and the law applies to everyone equally.
a) The constitution
b) The second generation of human rights
c) The Magna Carta.
d) The first generation of human rights.
the magna carta
Multiple choice:
The right to liberty and the right to a fair trial are:
a) absolute rights
b) limited rights
c) qualified rights
d) social rights
absolute rights
Multiple choice:
It freed the slaves, declared that all people had the right to choose their own religion, and established racial equality, it is viewed as the first charter of human rights
a) Bill of rights
b) The Magna Carta.
c) The Cyrus cylinder.
d) The Constitution
The Cyrus cylinder
Multiple choice:
Who was the first chair of the commission on human rights?
a) Thomas Jefferson
b) Thomas Paine
c) Eleanor Roosevelt
d) President Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
Multiple Choice:
The Four Aspects of Exclusion discussed in class includes all but one of the following
a) Exclusion from civil society
b) Exclusion from social goods
c) Exclusion from self-actualization
d) Exclusion from social production
e) Economic exclusion
Exclusion from self-actualization
Multiple Choice:
Institutional mechanisms, law, or systemic discrimination based on race, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation, and religion describes which type of exclusion?
a) Economic exclusion
b) Exclusion from civil society
c) Exclusion from social goods
d) Exclusion from social production
Exclusion from civil society
Multiple choice:
_____________is an important part of our professional development, which means we look at what went well, and what didn’t, and this allows us to tweak and amend our approach in the future.
a) Reflective practice
b) Reflexive practice
c) Self- actualization
d) Self-assessment
Reflective Practice
Multiple Choice:
Clifford (1995: 65) uses the term ________approaches as being concerned with the implementation of social justice, aiming to challenge the structure of society, and the use of power and privilege to maintain some groups in disadvantaged positions
a) Power and Privilege.
b) Anti-discrimination
c) Human rights
d) Anti-oppressive
Anti-oppressive
Multiple Choice:
Jim Crow segregation in the American South during the first half of the twentieth century State where laws mandated the separation of Blacks and Whites in all areas of life is an example of
a) Institutional discrimination
b) Individual discrimination
c) Group discrimination
d) None of the above.
Instituationa discrimination
Multiple Choice:
It is the principal intergovernmental body within the United Nations (UN) system responsible for strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights and for addressing and acting on human rights violations around the globe.
a) The UN Human Right Committee
b) The UN Assemblyc) The UN Human Rights Council
d) The Security Council.
The UN Human Rights Council
True or False:
Individual discrimination refers to the policies of the dominant race/ethnic/gender institutions and the behaviour of individuals who control these institutions. and implement policies that are intended to have a differential and/or harmful effect on minority race/ethnic/gender groups
True
Multiple choice:
failure of society to provide for the needs of groups, such as housing for the homeless, and language services for immigrants is known as
a) Exclusion from civil society
b) Exclusion from social goods
c) Exclusion from social production
d) Economic exclusion
Exclusion from social goods
Multiple Choice
One of the following statements is inconsistent with Human Rights Section- 2.
a) liberty rights that protect freedoms in areas such as belief, expression, association, assembly, and movement.
b) Political rights that protect the liberty to participate in politics through actions such as communicating, assembling, protesting, voting, and serving in public office.
c) The right to opportunities to contribute to and participate actively in society.
d) Equality rights that guarantee equal citizenship, equality before the law, and non-discrimination;
The right to opportunities to contribute to and participate actively in society.
Multiple Choice:
The sociological theory that states that status categories such as race, ability, class and gender all influence one another is called:
a) Status overlap theory
b) Intersectional theory
c) Symbolic interactionist theory
d) Functionalist theory
Intersectional theory
True and False:
The difference between first- and second-generation human rights is that. The first generation regards negative rights and corresponds to civil and political liberties, whereas the second generation presumes a positive action of the state and includes social, economic, and cultural rights
True
True or False
Collective and solidarity rights such as self-determination, development, cultural preservation, and clean environment, are rights more likely to be promoted by First world or industrialized countries
False
True or False:
A negative right is a right not to be subjected to an action of another person or group and this type of right is associated with first-generation human rights, whereas a positive right is a right to be subjected to an action of another person or group; usually associated with the second and third generation of human rights
True
Multiple Choice:
The perspective that views all statuses as creating one unique whole is called
a) Intersecting perspective
b) Interlocking perspective
c) Intercategorical perspective
d) None of the above.
Intersecting perspective
