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Payne SOCI 106 Winter 2023 Midterm #1 150 points Due FRIDAY February 10TH
? Please use 12pt. Times New Roman font. Please double space responses.
? Please insert a header with page numbers, your name, and our course information
(SOCI 106).
Part One: Identifications. 10 points x 5 IDs = 50 points
? For each of the five concepts below, please provide an explanation in your own
words describing what the term means.
? For each of the five concepts below, please provide an example from our course
materials (readings, lectures, slides, discussions) that provide an illustration of
each concept.
? Please Note: When providing explanations, please define the concept in general.
You can then use a particular example to illustrate how the concept has been
conceptualized/applied in a particular context we have investigated.
1.) Within-Case Comparisons
2.) Nomothetic Explanations
3.) Determinism (in relation to theories of history)
4.) Historical Materialism
5.) Ideographic Explanations
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Payne SOCI 106 Winter 2023 Midterm #1 150 points Due FRIDAY February 10TH
Part Two: Short Essay. 100 points
Please respond to the prompt below in a short-essay format.
Please make your response approximately 3-4 double-spaced pages.
Please include six specific examples (three examples each for the two case studies
discussed) from our course materials that help illustrate or provide evidence for
your response to the prompt.
Please include direct textual evidence when responding to the prompt.
Please provide brief citation information (last name and page numbers).
A separate works cited page is not required.
In the first half of our Comparative Historical Methods course, we are exploring a series of case
studies that aim to explain how and why large-scale social movements and transformations 1.)
emerge in particular historical contexts and 2.) develop in particular directions. Piven &
Clowardàtext seeks to identify the key factors and variables at play in their historical case
studies in order to provide not only richly descriptive but also precise explanatory accounts of
how and why social transformations unfolded.
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Payne SOCI 106 Winter 2023 Midterm #1 150 points Due FRIDAY February 10TH
Prompt
Please choose two of the three case studies (Unemployed Movement, Industrial Workersovement, Civil Rights Movement) from Piven and ClowardàPoor PeopleàMovements:
Why They Succeed, How They Fail and respond to the following questions:
? According to P&C, why did each of these two movements arise? What
conditions of possibility were in existence that allowed for the emergence
of each movement? What were the demands or goals of each movement?
? According to P&C, what factors contributed to the success of each
movement? What dynamics or variables were in place or developed over
time that helped each of these movements – at least partially !chieve
their goals?
? According to P&C, what factors limited the success of each movement?
What dynamics or variables were in place or developed over time that
constrained or otherwise hindered the achievement of each movementÊdemands and goals?
? To your estimation, what are the 5nchlines/r overall conclusions that
P&C provide us with respect to analyzing and understanding protest
movements and social change? Do P&C provide anything like an
overarching framework or perspective for conducting comparative
historical research?

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