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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Schelling arrive at the number of genetic possibilities in two people's offspring?

2. What vocabulary does Schelling use for "going along with the crowd"?

3. What hope does Schelling express for the future of nuclear arms?

4. What has to happen before hockey players will accept the requirement to wear helmets, in Schelling's analysis?

5. Who was the American president who ordered the bomb to be dropped?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose an event out of a newspaper or magazine, describe the primary model at work in it, and describe the underlying assumptions as well as the externalities and extra factors that are evident in the event.

Essay Topic 2

Schelling's Micromotives and Macrobehavior is grounded in the opposition between the individual's feelings and motives, and the aggregate society's behavior. How does Schelling resolve the tension or opposition between these two things? Can a social scientist analyze aggregate behavior from an aggregate perspective? What happens to the individual in the model for the society? Does this cause a problem for Schelling or any social scientist as someone who is describing phenomena that can only be seen in the aggregate?

Essay Topic 3

Schelling writes that groups tend to gather around a primary distinction, but secondary distinctions still exist beneath the surface. Select a case study from history or from current events and describe the interplay between the dominant identifier and the relationship between sub-identifications within that group.

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