Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Thermostats, Lemons, and Other Families of Models.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What consequence does Schelling say might affect people sitting closer to the stage?
(a) They are will be last to leave.
(b) They are socially outcast.
(c) They are forced to be watched by the others.
(d) They can see and hear better.
2. What does Schelling say a doctor administering measles vaccines found, that illustrates the human behavior Schelling is describing?
(a) Once they saw that the vaccine worked, mothers couldn't get enough of it for their children.
(b) Arranging to have children vaccinated meant negotiating with the oldest people in the villages.
(c) When measles began to disappear, mothers would stop having their babies vaccinated, and the disease would come back.
(d) Nothing could convince a certain percentage of the population to get vaccinated.
3. When does Schelling say social behavior can be considered a critical mass?
(a) When the number of people exhibiting behavior is the most important factor.
(b) When the behavior matches with models that were based in the physics of nuclear fission.
(c) When the behavior has to do with things sold by the pound.
(d) When social criticism is essential to defining the problem.
4. What does Schelling use his lecture to an audience of 800 people to illustrate?
(a) Group dynamics.
(b) Spatial distribution.
(c) Randomness.
(d) Economic theories of entertainment.
5. How does Schelling describe a decision such as choosing a seat in a theater?
(a) As a decision that can be predicted by mathematical laws of possibility.
(b) As something common and seemingly thoughtless that is nonetheless informed by subliminal motives.
(c) As a commonplace act that manifests the unconscious childhood sexual trauma of the individual.
(d) As a special case that cannot be analyzed using any particular interpretive framework.
Short Answer Questions
1. What additional explanation does Schelling offer for seat selection?
2. What does Schelling say distinguishes the sociologist from other scientists?
3. How does Schelling describe the system of skiers going up a lift and coming down the trails?
4. What does Schelling say the farmer needs to know?
5. How does Schelling say the success of society is evaluated?
This section contains 458 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) |