Business Ethics: Decision Making for Personal Integrity & Social Responsibility 4th Edition Test ban

 
A. normative
 
B. derivative
 
C. circumstantial
 
D. clinical
 
Philosophers often emphasize that ethics is normative, which means that it deals with our reasoning about how we should act. Social sciences, such as psychology and sociology, also examine human decision making and actions; but these sciences are descriptive rather than normative.
 
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
AACSB: Ethics
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 01-03 Distinguish the ethics of personal integrity from the ethics of social responsibility.
Topic: Business Ethics as Personal Integrity and Social Responsibility
 
 
26. Which of the following observations is true of ethics?
 
A. It is descriptive in nature.
 
B. It deals with our reasoning about how we should act.
 
C. It provides an account of how and why people act the way they do.
 
D. It is equivalent to law-abiding behavior.
 
Philosophers often emphasize that ethics is normative, which means that it deals with our reasoning about how we should act. As a normative discipline, ethics seeks an account of how and why people should act a certain way, rather than how they do act.
 
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
AACSB: Ethics
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Objective: 01-03 Distinguish the ethics of personal integrity from the ethics of social responsibility.
Topic: Business Ethics as Personal Integrity and Social Responsibility
 
 
27. Social sciences such as psychology and sociology are different from ethics owing to the fact that they are _____.
 
A. normative in nature
 
B. descriptive in nature
 
C. conjectural in nature
 
D. clinical in nature
 
Social sciences, such as psychology and sociology, also examine human decision making and actions; but these sciences are descriptive rather than normative. This is due to the fact that they provide an account of how and why people act the way they do—they describe; as a normative discipline, ethics seeks an account of how and why people should act a certain way, rather than how they act.
 
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
AACSB: Ethics
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Objective: 01-03 Distinguish the ethics of personal integrity from the ethics of social responsibility.
Topic: Business Ethics as Personal Integrity and Social Responsibility
 
 
28. _____ seeks an account of the how and why people should act a certain way, rather than how they do act.
 
A. Sociology
 
B. Psychology
 
C. Ethics
 
D. Anthropology
 
As a normative discipline, ethics seeks an account of how and why people should act a certain way, rather than how they do act. This is why philosophers often emphasize that ethics is normative.
 
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
AACSB: Ethics
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 01-03 Distinguish the ethics of personal integrity from the ethics of social responsibility.
Topic: Business Ethics as Personal Integrity and Social Responsibility
 
 
29. Which of the following is a factor that distinguishes social sciences, such as psychology and sociology, from ethics?
 
A. Unlike ethics, these disciplines inquire why people act the way they do.
 
B. Unlike ethics, these disciplines are normative rather than descriptive.
 
C. Unlike ethics, these disciplines provide an account of how people should act.
 
D. Unlike ethics, these disciplines give directives about how people should act.
 
Social sciences, such as psychology and sociology, provide an account of how and why people do act the way they. As a normative discipline, ethics seeks an account of how and why people should act a certain way, rather than how they do act.
 
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Objective: 01-03 Distinguish the ethics of personal integrity from the ethics of social responsibility.
Topic: Business Ethics as Personal Integrity and Social Responsibility
 
 
30. The _____ discipline provides an account of how and why people do act the way they do.
 
A. descriptive
 
B. supererogatory
 
C. normative
 
D. stipulative