Entry ticket 1 & 2

Overview

Please read the directions very carefully. Answer both prompts for entry tickets 1 & 2. Answer accurately using the attachments of the lectures and readings. Don’t hesitate to ask any questions!

Entry Ticket 1

Theory Questions

1. What are primary sources? Secondary sources? What are the pros/cons of each for historical and comparative sociologists?
2. What are the different ways in which theory is linked to data? What type of comparative and historical sociology would you like to do for your research paper?
3. What is path dependency and how do we actually do path dependent analysis?

Empirics Questions (answer one for both questions)

1. For one of the following cases, explain how we should make sense of the empirical reality (the things that happened) within larger comparative historical processes?
   1. What is COVID-19 and how do we explain it?
   2. What was Hurricane Helene and how do we explain it?
   3. Who was Robin Hood and how do we explain him?\
2. Answer one of the following using the readings or your own knowledge/intuition:
   1. How can violent repression of protests lead to more or fewer protests?
   2. How can terrible working conditions lead to worker unrest or worker quiescence?
   3. Is low wage a necessary condition for labor protest? Why?
   4. Does smoking cause cancer (deterministically, linearly/probabilistically)?

Entry ticket 2

Processes and Mechanisms

1. What are inductive and deductive reasoning?
2. What is process tracing? How and when do you use it?
   1. How do we consider evidence and what challenges are posed in process tracing?
   2. How do we know where to start/end the process?
   3. How do we show causation when we process trace outcomes?
3. What Bayesian tests do we use and how do they help us determine evidence's causal power?
4. What are inductive and deductive reasoning?

Primary Sources: The Archives and Oral & Social Histories

1. What are archives and how do we use the word “archive” to mean different things?
2. How do comparative historical sociologists intrude into the research process, thus making "objective History" impossible?
   1. Think about oral/social histories and the archives to answer this question fully.
3. What is oral history and how does it differ from other methods we have discussed so far?
   1. What is oral history arguing against (think about other methods, archives and Archives)?