Introduction to the Science of Sociology Part 92

11. What examples occur to you of conflicts of impersonal ideals?

12. What are the psychological causes of war?

13. "We may see in war the preliminary process of rejuvenescence."

Explain.

14. Has war been essential to the process of social adjustment? Is it still essential?

15. What do you understand by war as a form of relaxation?

16. How do you interpret Professor James's reaction to the Chautauqua?

17. What is the role of conflict in recreation?

18. Is it possible to provide psychic equivalents for war?

19. What application of the sociological theory of the relation of ideals to instinct would you make to war?

20. How do you distinguish rivalry from compet.i.tion and conflict?

21. What bearing have the facts of animal rivalry upon an understanding of rivalry in human society?

22. What are the different devices by which the group achieves and maintains solidarity? How many of these were characteristic of the war-time situation?

23. In what way is group rivalry related to the development of personality?

24. How does rivalry contribute to social organization?

25. What do you understand by Giddings' distinction between cultural conflicts and "logical duels"?

26. Have you reason for thinking that culture conflict will play a lesser role in the future than in the past?

27. To what extent was the world-war a culture conflict?

28. Under what circ.u.mstances do social contacts make (a) for conflict, and (b) for co-operation?

29. What has been the effect of the extension of communication upon the relations of nations? Elaborate.

30. What do you understand by race prejudice as a "more or less instinctive defense-reaction"?

31. To what extent is race prejudice based upon race compet.i.tion?

32. Do you believe that it is possible to remove the causes of race prejudice?

33. In what ways does race conflict make for race consciousness?

34. What are the different elements or forces in the interaction of races making for race conflict and race consciousness?

35. Is a heightening of race consciousness of value or of disadvantage to a racial group?

36. How do you explain the present tendency of the Negro to subst.i.tute the copying of colored models for the imitation of white models?

37. "In the South, the races seem to be tending in the direction of a bi-racial organization of society, in which the Negro is gradually gaining a limited autonomy." Interpret.

38. "All racial problems are distinctly problems of racial distribution." Explain with reference to relative proportion of Negroes, Chinese, and j.a.panese in certain sections of the United States.

39. Why have few or no race riots occurred in the South?

40. Under what circ.u.mstances have race riots occurred in the North?

FOOTNOTES:

[206] Adapted from William I. Thomas, "The Gaming Instinct," in the _American Journal of Sociology_, VI (1900-1901), 750-63.

[207] Adapted from a translation of Georg Simmel, _Soziologie_, by Albion W. Small, "The Sociology of Conflict," in the _American Journal of Sociology_, IX (1903-4), 490-501.

[208] Adapted from a translation of Georg Simmel, _Soziologie_, by Albion W. Small, "The Sociology of Conflict," in the _American Journal of Sociology_, IX (1903-4), 505-8.

[209] Adapted from William A. White, _Thoughts of a Psychiatrist on the War and After_, pp. 75-87. (Paul B. Hoeber, 1919.)

[210] From G. T. W. Patrick, "The Psychology of War," in the _Popular Science Monthly_, Lx.x.xVII (1915), 166-68.

[211] Adapted from Henry Rutgers Marshall, _War and the Ideal of Peace_, pp. 96-110. (Duffield & Co., 1915.)

[212] Adapted from William H. Hudson, "The Strange Instincts of Cattle,"

_Longman's Magazine_, XVIII (1891), 393-94.

[213] Adapted from George E. Vincent, "The Rivalry of Social Groups," in the _American Journal of Sociology_, XVI (1910-11), 471-84.

[214] Adapted from Franklin H. Giddings, "Are Contradictions of Ideas and Beliefs Likely to Play an Important Group-making Role in the Future?" in the _American Journal of Sociology_, XIII (1907-8), 784-91.

[215] From Robert E. Park, Introduction to Jesse F. Steiner, _The j.a.panese Invasion_. (A. C. McClurg & Co., 1917.)

[216] From Robert E. Park, "Racial a.s.similation in Secondary Groups," in _Publications of the American Sociological Society_, VIII (1913), 75-82.

[217] Adapted from Alfred H. Stone, "Is Race Friction between Blacks and Whites in the United States Growing and Inevitable?" in the _American Journal of Sociology_, XIII (1907-8), 677-96.

[218] Karl Groos, _The Play of Man_, p. 213. (New York, 1901.)

[219] _Supra_, p. 50.

[220] _The Dial_, LXVII (Oct. 4, 1919), 297.

CHAPTER X

ACCOMMODATION