Question 1

Select the best choice to complete the following sentence: ______ are tied to the idea that all humans hope to live in a moral society based on a common set of ethical practices.

Accepted Answer

Religions, backgrounds, and cultures can differ widely around the globe, but we all share the same values in what we feel is important and moral. However, we may not agree on how to get there or what is right or wrong when it comes to other aspects of life.

Question 2

Abstract concepts such as justice, freedom, happiness, and obligation are known as which one of the following choices?

Accepted Answer

Thin values are defined as being abstract concepts such as justice, freedom, happiness, and obligation.

Question 3

Concepts such as justice, freedom, happiness, and obligation and their implementation to a group of people are known as which one of the following choices?

Accepted Answer

A group's shared ideals in values are known as think values.

Question 4

Moral principles that are viewed as legitimate and binding across cultures are known as which one of the following choices?

Accepted Answer

Hypernorms are similar beliefs of moral principles across cultures and are viewed as legitimate and binding.

Question 5

What one group believes as right based on a shared type of background is known as which one of the following choices?

Accepted Answer

When a group has a similar background, they tend to share moral views of right and wrong.

Question 6

In some cultures, it is viewed poorly, and can even be illegal, for women to work outside the home. This is an example of which one of the following choices?

Accepted Answer

What is acceptable for women to do other than working in the home can vary from one culture to the other, making the thick value of not allowing work outside the home isolated to a group.

Question 7

Select the best choice to complete the following sentences: We all agree that there is a difference between what is right and what is wrong. However, when it comes to a specific situation, some might view it as right, while other might view it as wrong. This is an example of _________.

Accepted Answer

Thin values are shared by all, but each person's or group's interpretation of the actual values are known as thick values.

Question 8

In the United States, having access to clean water is viewed as a human right that is shared by all, even those outside the United States. There are groups that visit places around the globe to help drill wells to provide entire communities access to clean water. Clean water is also a necessity for an individual to live a healthy life. Those who believe it is important that clean water be provided for all view clean water as which kind of value?

Accepted Answer

Clean water is needed by all, but it might not be viewed as a moral obligation to all. Because clean water access might be viewed differently by different groups, it would be considered a thick value.

Question 9

In today's global society, ethics and norms can greatly impact a business interaction. For example, in one culture, it may be normal for an individual to be thirty minutes late for a business meeting. If two companies have formed a working relationship, it is important that cultural differences are discussed up front. To be successful, which of the following should be completed?

Accepted Answer

If a company only worked with those who share the same culture, there would be lost opportunity. Finding common ground and discussing expectations up front is the best way to work toward success.

Question 10

Nonverbal communication and body movements can send different messages across cultures. Common examples of differences include

Accepted Answer

Languages are not a form of nonverbal communication or body movements.

Question 11

If a group of people come together with a shared common belief, such as living in a community where all the residents have the same religious faith, they have shared norms known as which one of the following choices?

Accepted Answer

The residents are of a specific community within a larger group of society. This creates a micro-social contract.

Question 12

Different states have different laws when it comes to what they deem is legal and moral. While some laws may be outdated, these states can enforce the laws even though the citizens may not be breaking the law if they were in another state. These state laws can be viewed as expectations for how citizens in that state, living or visiting, are expected to act and what is viewed as acceptable. This is an example of which one of the following choices?

Accepted Answer

While laws are enforceable, there are also laws within states that determine how individuals should act and what is allowable. Because these are specific to that state, they are meso-social contracts.

Question 13

In one state, the legal age for an individual to get married is fourteen. In another state, the age is sixteen. Both of these states are essentially setting a specific age as to when one is mature enough to marry and saying it is morally and ethically right at the allowed age. Each of these states has the right to have different legal ages for marriage. This norm is an example of which one of the following choices?

Accepted Answer

Norms that are at specific state levels are viewed as meso-social contracts.

Question 14

General hypernorms that are shared by most cultures, countries, and societal groups are macro-social contracts-how society views right and wrong. These macro-norms can be broken into more specific, localized beliefs. The right to create one's own beliefs based on shared norms is due to which one of the following choices?

Accepted Answer

Moral free space provides the opportunity for societies, groups, and individuals to create more specific norms based on religion, culture, ethnicity, and the like.

Question 15

Moral relativism is the idea that society has a shared set of beliefs, and that shared set of beliefs is best described as which one of the following choices?

Accepted Answer

Moral relativism asserts that there are groups in society that have the same set of shared beliefs, but there is not a set of hypernorms or shared beliefs that stretch across all groups of society.

Question 16

Select the best choice to complete the following sentence: The idea of moral relativism holds that there are different ideas of what is moral in different groups of society based on culture, religion, background, and upbringing. These moral views are not _____ across all groups.

Accepted Answer

The idea of relativism is that morals are framed based on one's own understanding of what is moral, so they are not absolute and do not apply across all groups of society.

Question 17

Sally visited another country for a work assignment. While there, she witnessed a coworker accepting a bribe from a potential business partner to promise a business relationship between the two organizations. In this country, bribing is legal and seen as a legitimate way to conduct business. Sally's coworker knows this is illegal in their own country and against company policy. However, the coworker states that they just want to follow the norms in the country and show consideration for their way of doing things. The coworker is citing what as their reason for accepting the bribe?

Accepted Answer

The coworker is doing as they do in the country they are visiting so as to not offend, but it is also illegal in the home country for which the business operates and is viewed as unethical.

Question 18

The act of forcing one's own thoughts, beliefs, and norms onto someone else or a group of people is known as moral imperialism. Moral imperialists view all other values and norms as which one of the following choices?

Accepted Answer

Moral imperialists view their own values and norms as the only way and above all others.

Question 19

The CAGE Model addresses which of the following cultural differences?

Accepted Answer

While cultural norms vary across countries, the C in CAGE represents cultural differences.

Question 20

Select the best choice to complete the following sentence: Administrative differences are usually tied to government and _____ practices.

Accepted Answer

Political functions and government processes represent administrative differences within the CAGE Model.

Quiz 7: Ethics in a Global Society and Economy