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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 indicators of formal and informal community networks and social trust were studied across the U.S. to rate the average social capital of various states?

2. When did Bill Clinton become president?

3. Until 1870, how many inventions had been recognized by the U.S. Patent Office?

4. What is the nickname for the state of North Carolina?

5. Which state had the highest rate of murders?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why had civic life been graying in the last forty years of the twentieth century?

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

4. Which Americans were more likely to be involved in religious activities?

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

6. What did teachers report in areas where civic engagement in community affairs in general was high?

7. Why did smaller schools encourage more active involvement in extracurricular activity?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Putnam's book frequently uses the term "social capital." Discuss social capital and compare it with physical and human capital.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the decline of unions and the reasons why union membership declined in the twentieth century.

Essay Topic 3

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

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