Voluntary Affirmative Action Programs Have the Potential to Run Afoul

question 93

True/False

Voluntary affirmative action programs have the potential to run afoul of the Civil Rights Act of 1991.

Identify the impacts and consequences of modernity as described by sociologists like Anthony Giddens and Zygmunt Bauman.

Understand the role of information technology in modernity according to Manuel Castells.

Grasp the concept of risk societies and the management of risks in modernity.

Appreciate the debate between modernity and postmodernity in sociological thought.

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