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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: Sorting and Mixing: Race and Sex.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What tool does Schelling say social scientists use to describe behaviors such as human principles and household activities?
(a) Graphic designs.
(b) Metaphors.
(c) Computer architecture.
(d) Math.

2. What do the laws visible in the human behavior Schelling describes lead you to expect in other cyclic processes?
(a) Unexpected results.
(b) Lag time.
(c) Latent resistances.
(d) Hidden variables.

3. What does Schelling say about Christmas cards?
(a) They make a map of social relations.
(b) They do not follow any laws of distribution.
(c) There is generally a balance between how many each person receives.
(d) Sometimes they are sent out of guilt.

4. What does Schelling say social scientists hope to describe by characterizing a system?
(a) An explanation for other phenomena that fit the same pattern.
(b) Information about the difficulties of modeling social behavior.
(c) A mathematical model that accounts for all microbehavior within the phenomenon.
(d) Heuristics with which to judge behavior in nature.

5. Why might segregation result without discrimination?
(a) Either of two groups might want to be the majority in an area.
(b) Areas might be historically aligned with one group or another.
(c) Areas might have been populated during successive waves of immigration.
(d) A city might have built housing for foreign refugees of war or famine.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Schelling say people are segregated?

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

3. What does Schelling say about economic systems that allow unequal distribution of wealth?

4. What case does Schelling use to illustrate the difficulty of making an economic proposition?

5. What does Schelling say the defines independent variable in a behavioral system?

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