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Midterm information:
The midterm will be held in class on Tuesday of week five from 2:00 to 3:15. You can
use handwritten notes only. See the rules on the syllabus.
The exam will contain around 19 to 21 short -answer questions (worth 1 point each) and
an essay (worth from 9 to 11 points).
For the short-answer questions, focus will be on major concepts and findings (rather than
statistics, dates, or names). They will come from lectures (12 or 13 questions) and the
new tech readings online (7 or 8 questions). As I have said previously, for each of the
new tech articles, you should be taking notes on the main points made by the authors.
You will be asked about these points on the exam through short-answer questions. The
points you should be focusing on from lecture are those written on the board (and found
in the related guides on the class website).
Examples of short-answer questions:
1. Why might television watching and obesity be positively correlated (cite two factors)?
2. Distinguish the fears of older versus younger children regarding frightening films.
3. What are two common parental behaviors that can strongly influence a child’s
tendency to abuse electronic media? (new tech article) From: “How to Cut Children’s
Screen Time? Say No to Yourself First”
4. What is the network effect? (new tech article) From: “Can’t Put Down Your Device?
That’s by Design”
There will be one essay worth 9 to 11 points. It will come from the Postman book. For
the essay, you will be graded on thoroughness, specificity, and detail. You will also be
required to give examples for all your points. The Postman essay will draw directly from
the Postman guide on the class website. For the essay, I will designate from which
chapter of the book you should draw.
Example essay:
Write an essay on the Peek-a-World as discussed by Postman. What is the peek-a-boo
world? Discuss how the development of the telegraph and the photograph affected public
discourse. How has the emergence of television affected public discourse? Be specific,
detailed, and thorough, and make sure to give examples of all your points.
Professor Roger Waldinger
Sociology 151
Fall 2023
Midterm
DUE: Friday, November 10, no later than 5 pm PST
All exams must be double-spaced and uploaded to the course website
Reminder regarding plagiarism: Plagiarism will not be tolerated. Taking exact
wordings from lecture slides and advancing them as your own thoughts constitutes a
form of plagiarism. You may, of course, rephrase information taken from lecture slides;
you may also cite or quote from lecture slides, all the while appropriately referencing
the lecture and/or date that the lecture was presented. You can similarly draw from
information provided in section, though appropriate references must be provided.
Exact quotations should be limited in number; you must express ideas in your own
words. Please also remember that while you may study with another student, the exam
must be an individual effort, clearly authored by you and no one else.
Please note the requirement for direct quotes with page numbers provided. The
requirements for short answer responses and essays are different; attend to the
detailed requirements.
PART ONE: Short Answers: 18 points each
Drawing particularly from the lectures, section discussions and assigned readings up
through week 4, please answer the following short answer questions thoroughly but
concisely (each answer should be 300-400 words in length or roughly 1.5 pages with
Times New Roman 12 pt). Make sure to provide proper documentation (footnotes,
quotes, examples) for your answers. The strongest answer is one that draws on the
broadest range of relevant readings, lectures, films, and newspaper articles.
Each response must contain at least two short quotes from the relevant sources;
correctr page numbers must be provided for the quotes.
1. Michael Walzer contends that “Without the right to exclude, there could not be
communities of character, historically stable, ongoing associations of men and
women with some special commitment to one another and some special sense
of their common life” (62).
a. Explain, according to Walzer, how and why the flight of persons seeking
to escape persecution and violence might alter the right of states to
exclude migrants?
b. Consider the specific circumstances of flight, for example, whether a
person fleeing violence and persecution goes to a neighboring country
and find safety there but seeks resettlement elsewhere (e.g., Syria to
Jordan, and then waiting for possible resettlement in the US) or instead
manages to reach the territory of a more distant, safe country (e.g., Syria
to the United States) and requests asylum there. How does the location
of the person who has fled violence affect the obligation to accept
refugees? Compare Walzer v Betts and Collier on the obligations owed to
asylum seekers v refugees waiting for resettlement.
2. What are the factors that lead migrations, once initiated, to persist? Your
answer should include, but is not limited to, examples from the week 2 articles
on Guatemala and Mali that will demonstrate your understanding of the concept
of “cumulative causation” (page 20 in Beyond Smoke and Mirrors).
3. In Return to Aztlan, the authors write that poor immigrants “may be poor in
financial resources, but they are wealthy in social capital, which they can readily
convert into jobs and earnings in the United States.” (170-171). Drawing on
lectures and readings by Massey et al, Hernandez-Leon, Hagan, Duquette-Rury
and Waldinger, and using concrete examples to illustrate your key analytical
points (a) define social capital; (b) explain how and why the migrants’ social
capital helps them fill structural holes in the workplace (make sure to correctly
define a structural hole); (c) distinguish community from individual migration
social capital and explain how the growth of immigrant populations generates
community-wide resources that help solve the everyday problems of migration
PART TWO: Essay Question: 54 points
Please answer the following question in an essay of at least 5 typed pages (1,000-1,500
words). Make sure to provide proper documentation (footnotes, quotes, examples) for
your answers. The strongest answer is one that draws on the broadest range of relevant
readings and lectures. An effective answer will provide relevant examples from the
many cases of specific sending and receiving communities discussed in readings and
lectures. Your essays must include at least one quote (no longer than two sentences
per quotation) from each of the written sources noted below (page numbers must be
included) and at least one concrete example from each of the videos noted below, with
the minute cited.
You can receive four additional points if your essay incorporates appropriate
information from the case studies of Santa Catarina and Tlatelolco (your presentation of
material from these cases must include at least one quote, with page numbers, for each
case), presented in Duquette-Rury, Lauren. “Migrant transnational participation: how
citizen inclusion and government engagement matter for local democratic development
in Mexico.” American Sociological Review 81, no. 4 (2016): 771-799, available at this
link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0003122416653603
In Return to Aztlan, the authors write that “the feeling of belonging to a common
community of origin, or paisanaje…is a latent dimension of association. (143)”. Drawing
on lectures and readings by Duquette-Rury, Hernandez-Leon, Return to Aztlan,
Waldinger, as well as the films, “the Sixth Section” and “My town”, this essay should
answer the following questions:
1. How, why, and with what effects does this feeling of hometown community
belongingness arise?
2. What happens when those connections lead them to link up with the
communities from which they departed?
a. What do the migrants do in order to improve conditions for the
communities?
b. Under what conditions do those efforts improve conditions for the
communities left-behind yield success or failure?
c. What impediments do the migrant hometowners encounter?
d. What strategies allow them to overcome those barriers?
An effective answer will provide relevant examples from the many cases of specific
sending and receiving communities discussed in readings and lectures. Your essays
must include at least one quote (no longer than two sentences per quotation) from each
of the sources noted above; page numbers must be included (Only answers with
quotations and page numbers will get credit)
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