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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do hockey players fear in regard to the issue of wearing helmets, in Schelling's analysis?

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

4. What does Schelling say are continuous variables?

5. How does Schelling say chromosomal modification might be useful?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Tolerance is a desirable quality to identify in an economic model of behavior, but how would you define the value of tolerance in Schelling's models of integration? What would you know it by? What factors would indicate a 'tolerant' neighborhood or society?

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

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.

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