Introduction to the Science of Sociology Part 68

11. What is the relation of social forces to interaction?

12. Is it possible to study trends, tendencies, and public opinion as integrations of interests, sentiments, and att.i.tudes?

13. Are desires the fundamental "social elements"?

14. What do you understand Small to mean when he says, "The last elements to which we can reduce the actions of human beings are units which we may conveniently name 'interests'"?

15. What is Small's cla.s.sification of interests? Do you regard it as satisfactory?

16. What do you think is the difference between an impulse and an interest?

17. Do people behave according to their interests or their impulses?

18. Make a chart showing the difference in interests of six persons with whom you are acquainted.

19. Make a chart indicating the variations in interests of six selected groups.

20. What difference is there, in your opinion, between interests and social pressures?

21. Do you consider the following statement of Bentley's correct: "No slaves, not the worst abused of all, but help to form the government"?

22. Does the group exert social pressure upon its members? Give ill.u.s.trations.

23. What do you understand to be the differences between an idea and an idea-force?

24. Give ill.u.s.trations of idea-forces.

25. Are there any ideas that are not idea-forces?

26. What do you understand by a sentiment?

27. What is the difference between an interest and a sentiment? Give an ill.u.s.tration of each.

28. Are sentiments or interests more powerful in influencing the behavior of a person or of a group?

29. What do you understand by a social att.i.tude?

30. What is a mental conflict?

31. To what extent does unconsciousness rather than consciousness determine the behavior of a person? Give an ill.u.s.tration where the behavior of a person was inconsistent with his rational determination.

32. What do you understand by mental complexes?

33. What is the relation of memory to mental complexes?

34. What do you understand by personality? What is its relation to mental complexes?

35. What is meant by common sense?

36. How does Holt define the Freudian wish?

37. What distinction does he make between the wish and the motor att.i.tude?

38. How would you ill.u.s.trate the difference between an att.i.tude and a wish as defined in the introduction?

39. How far would you say that the att.i.tude may be described as an organization of the wishes?

40. How far is the a.n.a.logy between the wish as the social atom and the att.i.tude as the social element justified?

41 What is the "psychic censor"?

42. What is the Freudian theory of repression? Is repression conscious or unconscious?

43. What is the relation of wishes to occupational selection?

44. Give ill.u.s.trations of the "four wishes."

45. Describe a person in terms of the type of expression of these four wishes.

46. What social problems arise because of the repression of certain wishes?

47. "Wishes in one cla.s.s cannot be subst.i.tuted for wishes in another."

Do you agree? Elaborate your position.

48. a.n.a.lyze the organization of a group from the standpoint of the four wishes.

FOOTNOTES:

[157] Adapted from A. M. Simons, in the Preface to _Social Forces in American History_, pp. vii-viii. (Published by The Macmillan Co., 1912.

Reprinted by permission.)

[158] Adapted from Richard T. Ely, _Evolution of Industrial Society_, pp. 456-84. (Published by The Macmillan Co., 1903. Reprinted by permission.)

[159] Adapted from A. V. Dicey, _Law and Public Opinion in England_, pp.

19-41. (Published by The Macmillan Co., 1905. Reprinted by permission.)

[160] Adapted from Albion W. Small, _General Sociology_, pp. 532-36.

(The University of Chicago Press, 1905.)

[161] Adapted from Albion W. Small, _General Sociology_, pp. 425-36.

(The University of Chicago Press, 1905.)

[162] Adapted from Arthur F. Bentley, _The Process of Government_, pp.

258-381. (The University of Chicago Press, 1908.)

[163] Adapted from Alfred Fouillee, _Education from a National Standpoint_, pp. 10-16. (D. Appleton & Co., 1897.)

[164] Adapted from William McDougall, _An Introduction to Social Psychology_, pp. 121-64. (John W. Luce & Co., 1916.)