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TOPICS FOR WRITTEN THEMES
1. Social Interaction and Social Control
2. Social Control as the Central Fact and the Central Problem of Sociology
3. Social Control, Collective Behavior, and Progress
4. Manipulation and Partic.i.p.ation as Forms of Social Control
5. Social Control and Self-Control
6. Accommodation as Control
7. Elementary Forms of Social Control: Ceremony, Fas.h.i.+on, Prestige, and Taboo, etc.
8. Traditional Forms of Control, as Folkways, Mores, Myths, Law, Education, Religion, etc.
9. Rumors, News, Facts, etc., as Forms of Control
10. Case Studies of the Influence of Myths, Legends, "Vital Lies," etc., on Collective Behavior
11. The Newspaper as Controlling and as Controlled by Public Opinion
12. Gossip as Social Control
13. Social Control in the Primary Group in the Village Community as Compared with Social Control in the Secondary Group in the City
14. An a.n.a.lysis of Public Opinion in a Selected Community
15. The Politician and Public Opinion
16. The Social Survey as a Mechanism of Social Control
17. A Study of Common Law and Statute Law from the Standpoint of Mores and Public Opinion
18. A Concrete Example of Social Change a.n.a.lyzed in Terms of Mores, the Trend, and Public Opinion, as Woman's Suffrage, Prohibition, the Abolition of Slavery, Birth Control, etc.
19. The Life History of an Inst.i.tution from the Standpoint of Its Origin and Survival as an Agency of Control
20. Unwritten Law; a Case Study
21. Legal Fictions and Their Function in Legal Practice
22. The Sociology of Authority in the Social Group and in the State
23. Maine's Conception of Primitive Law
24. The Greek Conception of Themistes and Their Relation to Code of Solon
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION
1. What do you understand by social control?
2. What do you mean by elementary social control? How would you distinguish it from control exercised by public opinion and law?
3. How does social control in human society differ from that in animal society?
