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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In 1959, how many American homes had television?
2. By 1995, what percent of Americans opposed interracial dating?
3. How much would an individual's chances of poor health increase if he moved from a state with a wealth of social capital to a state with little social capital?
4. What type of a culture was found in the South?
5. At what percent was social trust in Mississippi?
Short Essay Questions
1. What have studies shown about health and integration with the community?
2. What did Putnam believe that leaders and activists must seek to do to rebuild social capital?
3. Materially, how did the standard of living improve in the United States during the 50 years after the Civil War?
4. What did teachers report in areas where civic engagement in community affairs in general was high?
5. What is generally accepted as the most reliable index of the incidence of crime?
6. What is one of the strongest predictors of whether inner-city black youths find jobs and why?
7. How did the school integration busing issue illustrate the trade-offs between bridging and bonding social capital?
8. What was discovered about social capital and how people coped with life?
9. Why had civic life been graying in the last forty years of the twentieth century?
10. Why did circumstantial evidence suggest that big government caused civic disengagement?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Social change is produced by some combination of intracohort and intercohort changes. Discuss intracohort and intercohort social changes and their importance.
Essay Topic 2
The mass-membership organization rose in the late twentieth century. Discuss the mass-membership organization and its role in society.
Essay Topic 3
"Machers" and "schmoozers" represent the distinction between formal and informal social connectedness. Compare and contrast "machers" and "schmoozers."
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