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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: Hockey Helmets, Daylight Saving, and Other Binary Choices.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Schelling account for people's decision to join the majority or follow their own path?
(a) Whether to join the majority is not always the most important factor.
(b) He says that people will follow certain individuals, not "the mass."
(c) He says that to join the majority is hard-wired into people.
(d) He says that it depends on the reasonableness of the behavior.

2. 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.

3. What does Schelling say is the key to predicting whether there will be a critical mass?
(a) Modeling the undesirability of the decision being weighed.
(b) Defining the number that will constitute the critical mass.
(c) Articulating the fears that surround the decision in the collective unconscious.
(d) Knowing why people delay their decisions.

4. What does Schelling say is the result if aggregate behavior results from a small number of variables?
(a) Conflict.
(b) Faith.
(c) Doubt.
(d) Certainty.

5. What does Schelling say distinguishes the sociologist from other scientists?
(a) He uses non-mathematical data.
(b) He is involved in the life he is studying.
(c) He studies himself as well as his subject.
(d) He publishes in different journals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ingrained behavior does Schelling say informs the decision where to sit in a theater?

2. How many possibilities does Schelling say social scientists have to account for when charting binary choice?

3. What does Schelling say about discrimination as a reason for segregation?

4. How hockey players feel when the league makes helmets mandatory, in Schelling's analysis?

5. What is the first thing Schelling says a social behavior model can be?

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