In the Taste-For-Discrimination Model

question 168

Multiple Choice

In the taste-for-discrimination model,

• A) discriminatory employers behave as if employing nonpreferred-race workers adds to costs.
• B) individual workers are judged by the characteristics of the groups to which they belong.
• C) prejudiced white employers will never hire African-American workers.
• D) women and minorities are confined to a limited number of occupations.

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