e no thinkable form."
Explain.
8. "It is advantageous to hate the opponent with whom one is
struggling." Explain.
9. Give illustrations of feuds not mentioned by Simmel.
10. How do you distinguish between feuds and litigation?
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 competition 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 circumstances 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 competition?
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 substitute
the copying of colored models for t
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