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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 1998, what percent of American adults were married?

2. Of the Korean business owners who used debt to start a business, how many borrowed money from family?

3. How many nonprofit organizations were there per 1,000 inhabitants in Vermont?

4. In Figure 82 "Index of Educational Performance," what state was at the bottom of the chart?

5. In the novel "Babbit," where did the main character live?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What have studies shown about health and integration with the community?

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

5. Why when looking for a job, did Mark Granovetter document that acquaintances were more important than other factors?

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

7. Materially, how did the standard of living improve in the United States during the 50 years after the Civil War?

8. How did the school integration busing issue illustrate the trade-offs between bridging and bonding social capital?

9. How might social capital serve as a physiological triggering mechanism?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

An analogy was used to compare social connectedness to a murder mystery. Discuss what tests or benchmarks needed to be used when considering possible reasons why social connectedness declined.

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

Putnam looked at official membership as a barometer of community involvement. Discuss how official membership could be a measurement of community involvement and what membership showed about civic involvement.

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