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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 does the heating system parallel human behavior in Schelling's example?

2. Why might segregation result without discrimination?

3. To what does Schelling compare a sociologist?

4. What does Schelling say race discrimination is caused by?

5. Which example does Schelling say complicates the prospect of arriving at a definitive proposition?

Short Essay Questions

1. What limitations does Schelling describe that restrict the effect of economic analysis of social behaviors?

2. What distinction does Schelling draw between decisions other people have made?

3. What is the key factor in the critical-mass model?

4. What are discrete variables and continuous variables?

5. What is a binary choice?

6. What is one consequence Schelling describes of parents being able to choose the sex of their children?

7. In what way does Schelling say the shop owner's exchange of a bicycle for $150 of the customer's money--when the owner paid $90 for the bicycle--an equal exchange?

8. What is the lemons model?

9. How does Schelling characterize eugenics?

10. What factors influence how effective a proposition is, in Schelling's analysis?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are Schelling's values? Where does he stand on the issue of safety, or integration, or segregation or vaccines? Using evidence from the book, describe Schelling's personal views about the issues he raises, and explain the reasoning by which he justifies these personal views.

Essay Topic 2

What does Schelling mean when he says that systems strive for equilibrium? Use an example of a system that naturally seeks equilibrium--and define that equilibrium--and describe a natural system that does not seek equilibrium. What do the exceptions show about the general tendency?

Essay Topic 3

Where are economic models and their concept of equilibrium useful? What kinds of behaviors do they help social scientists to influence? What kinds of behaviors are not accounted for in these mathematical-economic models?

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