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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. How many Korean business owners used debt financing to start their enterprises?
2. Where was a study done that indicated that each employed person in one's social network increased one's annual income by $1,400?
3. In what country did Putnam and several colleagues investigate regional government?
4. In what state was tax evasion the highest?
5. How many civic associations were members of the generation born in the 1920s liable to belong to compared to the generation born in the late 1960s?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Putnam see as a trend in newspaper readership?
2. How does social capital affect child abuse rates?
3. What was different about American males in their sixties and seventies at the end of the twentieth century than their grandsons?
4. Materially, how did the standard of living improve in the United States during the 50 years after the Civil War?
5. How might social capital serve as a physiological triggering mechanism?
6. Why when looking for a job, did Mark Granovetter document that acquaintances were more important than other factors?
7. Why had civic life been graying in the last forty years of the twentieth century?
8. What have studies shown about health and integration with the community?
9. What is one of the strongest predictors of whether inner-city black youths find jobs and why?
10. How did commentators like Michael Schudson and Alan Wolfe view the change in social capital from the 1950s to the 1960s?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Jim Crow laws decimated voter turnout in the South. Discuss the Jim Crow laws and how voting was affected when the laws were in place and when the laws were repealed.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss bridging and bonding and provide some examples of how these types of social capital work in society.
Essay Topic 3
Seniors volunteered in greater numbers in the 1990s than in the 1970s. Discuss why more seniors were volunteering in the 1990s than at any other time.
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