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Reflected evaluation demands reasoning regarding relative importance, not just counting. This is an exercise in which we are constantly engaged. To that general understanding has to be added the possible importance of public reasoning as a way of extending the reach and reliability to valuations and making them more robust. The necessity of scrutiny and critical assessment is not just a demand for self-centred evaluation by secluded individuals, but a pointer to the fruitfulness of public discussion and of interactive public reasoning: social evaluations may be starved of useful information and good arguments if they are entirely based on separated and sequestered cogitation. Public discussion and deliberation cab lead to better understanding of the role, reach and significance of particular functionings and their combinations. To illustrate, public discussion of gender-based inequalities in India has helped to bring out, in recent years, the importance of certain freedoms that did not receive adequate acknowledgement earlier. Examples include the freedom to depart from fixed and time honoured family roes that limit the social and economic opportunities of women, and women's. These traditional antecedents of gender inequality in will-established, male-dominated societies demand not only individual concern but also informative public discussion and often enough, agitation. the connection between public reasoning and the choice and weighting of capabilities in social assessment is important to emphasize. If also points to the absurdity of the argument that is sometimes presented, which claims that the weights on the distinct functionings in some fixed list of relevant capabilities.


1. Gender inequality in traditional societies demands:

(A) Individual discourses only

(B) Public discussions

(C) Limitation on opportunities

(D) Agitation based on public resoning

Choose the correct option:

(a) (A) and (B) only

(b) (B) and (C) only

(c) (B) and (D) only

(d) (C) and (D) only


2. The public discussion on gender inequalities makes us support:

(a) Time honoured family roles

(b) Restrictive social roles

(c) Deprivation of men in society

(d) Reforms in the present social value system


3. The major take-away from the passage is :

(a) Promotion of a capability system

(b) Separate social assessment of men and women

(c) Recognition of the traditional value system

(d) Absurdity of a capability approach with a fixed list of weights


4. A robust and critical evaluation will result in:

(a) Interactive public discussions

(b) Self-centered assessment

(c) Availability of useful information

(d) Sequestered cogitation


5. Reflective evaluation takes into account:

(a) Subjective perception of public issues

(b) Mere counting of societal developments

(c) General understanding and public reasoning

(d) Extensive arguments on inequalities



ANSWERS

1 - c

2 - d

3 - d

4 - a

5 - c