Be sure to think critically and expand on your answer
Part 1.reviewing the PowerPoint ‘The Social Contract Theory and the Apparel Industry’ (check attachment) and completing answers
respond to questions for the following episodes:
The Coffee Customer with A Sour Attitude
Potential Predator Approaches Teen
Man Buys Dog to Fight
The Coffee Customer with A Sour Attitude
1.Would you speak up to the customer being rude? Why or why not?
2.Do you think a persons’ profession and/or background or upbringing plays a part in reacting to this type of situation?
3.How about location? This was New Jersey. Do you think people would react in the same way in California?
Potential Predator Approaches Teen
4.Would you speak up to the man or the young woman? Why or why not?
5.In your opinion, whose behavior (of the customers) did you respect/appreciate the most and why?
Man Buys Dog to Fight
6.What do you think you would do if you were in this situation?
7.If you were in this situation, what ethical theory do you think would drive your decision to get involved (or not get involved)? Expand on your thoughts.
Part 2
“8 Arguments in Favor of Sweatshops”.https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexrees/8-arguments-in-support-of-sweatshop-labor#.ey13nGV8q
Read all of the captions on the pictures of factory workers. Select one of the statements that you find the most intriguing or interesting. Click on the link near the caption and read the expansion/defense of that statement. Then discuss the following as instructed:
Type out the statement you select from the webpage and the author (if identifiable). Then, name two ethical theories under which the person who made the statement you chose would be acting and discuss why you selected these theories. Be sure to think critically and expand on your answer. Answers should be no less than half a page and no more than a page, double spaced.
Part 3
read EITHER Article 1 Two Cheers for Sweatshops https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20000924mag-sweatshops.html
OR Article 2 The Noble Feat of Nike http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/noble-feat-nike
Identify the article you selected (Article 1 or Article 2) and summarize the article you selected and identify ONE ethical theory under which the author is working in their article and discuss why you selected the theory. Part 3 should be no shorter than one double spaced page after completing both items listed
REMEMBER completion of thoughts, logic, and inclusion of ethical theories and your thoughts about those theories.
