View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Schelling say you must know in order to understand what segregation might result from choice?
(a) The local political environment.
(b) The personalities of each group's leaders.
(c) The influence of the media.
(d) Incentives behind the behavior.

2. What does Schelling say is the goal of his model for describing segregation?
(a) An equitable division of resources between racial groups.
(b) An end to the tensions between ethnic groups.
(c) A preservation of tensions between ethnic groups.
(d) An acceptable equilibrium between racial groups.

3. What social science does Schelling say sociology resembles?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Paranormal psychology.
(c) Economics.
(d) History.

4. What does Schelling say is the result if aggregate behavior results from a small number of variables?
(a) Certainty.
(b) Conflict.
(c) Faith.
(d) Doubt.

5. How does the heating system parallel human behavior in Schelling's example?
(a) A voice distributes its energy into the environment around it.
(b) A trait becomes more and more intense until it expresses itself in heat.
(c) A vessel carries whatever hot or cold air or water runs through it.
(d) A rising variable alternatively over and under performs.

6. What does Schelling say about balance in individual cases?
(a) It does not exist.
(b) It is a transcendent law.
(c) It is evidence of the collective unconscious.
(d) It defines the nature of human beings.

7. What does the heating-system-like aspect of human behavior seek, in Schelling's analysis?
(a) Emptiness.
(b) Relief from tension.
(c) Perpetual comfort.
(d) An appropriate level.

8. How does Schelling describe the system of skiers going up a lift and coming down the trails?
(a) As a closed system.
(b) As an open system.
(c) As a transformative system.
(d) As a static system.

9. How does Schelling characterize the individual's relationship with the society?
(a) He tends to organize with others in his similar situation.
(b) He strives for a full understanding of every part.
(c) He does not need to know how it works, he only has to perform his part.
(d) He tends to specialize, and not to see the influences that drive him.

10. Schelling says that it is hard to draw the line between "individually motivated" segregation and what?
(a) Religious aversions.
(b) Institutional or economic discrimination.
(c) Ethnic aversions.
(d) Historical discrimination.

11. What does Schelling say about Christmas cards?
(a) They make a map of social relations.
(b) There is generally a balance between how many each person receives.
(c) They do not follow any laws of distribution.
(d) Sometimes they are sent out of guilt.

12. What does Schelling say the presence of a small group of black students in a college student body does for any economic propositions about the behavior of that student body?
(a) Introduces randomness.
(b) Introduces uncertainty.
(c) Introduces non-economic competition.
(d) Introduces tension and inequality.

13. What does Schelling say was seeking equilibrium as America's space industry interacted with the Russians'?
(a) The system of America's space agencies.
(b) The system of technical knowledge itself.
(c) The system of America's military defense industry.
(d) The system of America's universities which produced scientists.

14. How does Schelling describe daylight savings time?
(a) As a self-fulfilling prophecy.
(b) As a critical mass.
(c) As a self-enforcing convention.
(d) As a self-displacing prophecy.

15. What does Schelling say people have a tendency to do?
(a) Put others down.
(b) Put themselves in good positions.
(c) Hide from unpleasant facts.
(d) Be honest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say individuals react to?

2. What is the second thing Schelling says a social behavior model can be?

3. Which example does Schelling say complicates the prospect of arriving at a definitive proposition?

4. How does Schelling describe the Golden Gate Bridge?

5. What name does Schelling give to the effect people have on each other's behavior?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 682 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample