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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say would be the consequence of a culture preferring male children?

2. What does Schelling say the segregation/integration model identify in addition to population concerns?

3. What does Schelling say parents are most concerned with in the case of vaccination?

4. Why does Schelling say hockey players resist wearing helmets, when they already know they are safer?

5. What does Schelling say about mathematical identities?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is a positive kind of discrimination, and what tools does a society or a government have for reinforcing positive discrimination?

Essay Topic 2

Which models are most convincing in predicting outcomes, and which models are least convincing? Describe a case where a model lines up neatly with phenomena, and another case where a model fails to account for behavior.

Essay Topic 3

Micromotives and Macrobehavior was written in 1981, when race relations in the U.S. were tense in the aftermath of the civil rights movement of the sixties and seventies. While the book responded to the inflammatory situation by analyzing micromotives, the past three decades have seen race relations change in the U.S. What aspects of Schelling's analysis is still relevant in the atmosphere of race relations today, and what factors have caused them to change or evolve?

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