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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. When did Mark Granovetter document the fact that casual acquaintances can be more important assets than close friends and family when looking for a job?

2. When was "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" written?

3. When was the Great Awakening?

4. How many tons of steel were produced in 1900?

5. How many Americans in any given year suffered from major depression?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the most systematic study of civic skills in contemporary America suggest?

2. How did commentators like Michael Schudson and Alan Wolfe view the change in social capital from the 1950s to the 1960s?

3. What were some inventions that transformed American life after 1870?

4. What did Putnam believe that leaders and activists must seek to do to rebuild social capital?

5. What characteristics did criminologist Robert J. Sampson see in communities that had increased crime and violence?

6. What is one of the strongest predictors of whether inner-city black youths find jobs and why?

7. What did Putnam see as a trend in newspaper readership?

8. When people said that television was their main form of entertainment, what activities did these people participate in less often?

9. What was different about American males in their sixties and seventies at the end of the twentieth century than their grandsons?

10. What was discovered about social capital and how people coped with life?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

New developments in telecommunications seemed to affect social connectedness. Discuss how telecommunications, specifically the telephone and the Internet, affected social connectedness.

Essay Topic 2

Social change is produced by some combination of intracohort and intercohort changes. Discuss intracohort and intercohort social changes and their importance.

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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