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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 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?
2. During what time period was the Gilded Age?
3. Where was a study done that indicated that each employed person in one's social network increased one's annual income by $1,400?
4. How many tons of steel were produced in 1900?
5. How many men born in the 1920s served in the military?
Short Essay Questions
1. What have studies shown about health and integration with the community?
2. Why did Putnam believe that there was an increase in nostalgia in the late twentieth century?
3. What is one of the strongest predictors of whether inner-city black youths find jobs and why?
4. How did the school integration busing issue illustrate the trade-offs between bridging and bonding social capital?
5. What was different about American males in their sixties and seventies at the end of the twentieth century than their grandsons?
6. How might social capital serve as a physiological triggering mechanism?
7. What did Putnam see as a trend in newspaper readership?
8. Why had civic life been graying in the last forty years of the twentieth century?
9. How did commentators like Michael Schudson and Alan Wolfe view the change in social capital from the 1950s to the 1960s?
10. Why when looking for a job, did Mark Granovetter document that acquaintances were more important than other factors?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The mass-membership organization rose in the late twentieth century. Discuss the mass-membership organization and its role in society.
Essay Topic 2
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 Discuss the Jim Crow laws and how voting was affected when the laws were in place and when the laws were repealed.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 3
Some generations were introduced to television as adults, and some generations grew up with television. Discuss television viewing and how viewing television is different among different generations.
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